Panasonic UB420 Streaming 4K Blu Ray Player, Ultra HD Premium Video Playback with Hi-Res Audio, Voice Assist - DP-UB420-K Blu Ray DVD Player (Black)

***4+ years of use update: ZERO issues playing DVD, Blu-ray & 4k discs. Have not had to do anything but push the power button and insert the disc & play. Amazing picture quality. NO freezing or glitches like my previous Sony players.*** I bought a new 65" 4k TV and a new 4K AppleTv in 2019. I have owned 2 generations of Sony's middle to higher end blu-ray players and have experienced loud disc spin noise plus a ton of software buggy issues with both models. Then they dumped support for Hulu. YouTube and Netflix poor to ok reliability, with the YouTube app often not working for weeks at a time. Disc playback was ok IF it didn't hangup/crash on you on initial disc insertion. So NO MORE Sony Blu-ray players for me. Researched and came across a lot of happy folks using these Panasonic models. Around the holidays it was only $149 Prime so ordered it and glad I did. Picture quality is outstanding and no issues like I was experiencing with the Sony player. Easy setup with plugging in power and HDMI cables (One is provided with the player but I bought a pair of "Atevon High Speed 18Gbps HDMI 2.0 Cable - HDCP 2.2" 6ft cables - ASIN B06XP129CT). Was able to get it connected up to my WiFi network with no trouble. Updated the firmware & good-to-go. One issue I did encounter was the Panasonic remote's power and volume buttons to control the TV did not work with my Samsung Q80 TV. Page 8 of the DP-UB820 players "advanced owners manual" (google it) explained how to reprogram the remote control - Hold the power button down and input the 2 digit tv code (Samsung #s: 20/21/22) page 26 supplied the different TV brand's codes. Now buttons are functional with my TV. I am not planning on streaming with any apps on this unit because I am very happy with the quality and ease of the 4k AppleTV. (R.I.P. Sony Blu-Ray player - & good riddance...) Hope this review helps!

Best HD multi-player including obsolete my HD-DVD collection. Handles the latest Ultra HD like Oppenheimer on both visuals and sound. Worth the extra dollars for full features....5/5

My 4k UHD discs absolutely stun with this player on a Hisense 4k TV. With some fiddling, the picture is amazing. Seems to have some issues with burned discs and/or some DVDs that I think may be bootlegs, but I've got a PS4 set to the side for those anyway. The built-in streaming apps are essentially useless and typically wont even open, let alone play content.

I was impressed when I got it, but this thing is picky, watch the finger prints on the DVDs it will let you know when the DVD won’t play. I’m still glad I got it

Don’t listen to the bad reviews the Panasonic UB420 is the best 4K Blu ray player I’ve ever owned it makes my 4K Blu rays Blu rays and DVDs all look amazing And the sound quality is amazing too it has no Dolby vision but It does have HDR10 and HDR10+ and as a Samsung tv owner with no Dolby vision this player was perfect for my entertainment setup Also for the people mentioning overheating issues turn off quick start as if enabled will keep the player on even when you turn it off disabling quick start will turn the player completely off and solve the overheating issue and the player turns on quickly anyway so quick start is not needed Overall the Panasonic UB420 is an amazing 4K Blu ray player with great Video and Audio quality and great upscaling for Blu rays and DVDs Highly recommended

Comparing to my LG UBK80 (no longer made). PICTURE QUALITY: decent, but no better than my LG. Perhaps if one has an ultra-top-tier OLED TV you might be able to see the difference? I have no idea, but using my TV (55" 4K Hisense, Dolby Vision, HDR, HDR10+) I see NO picture improvement w/the Pana over the LG. The Panasonic 420 has their touted "HCX" chip, but the picture looked no better than the LG UBK80 across the board for me, with UHD discs, as well as upconverting from 1080 on multiple BluRays and 1080p files. BUILD QUALITY: cheaply made, feels like it won't last. FLAWS: If you want to use an HDD to play video files, good luck using the front USB 2.0 port (DC 5v 500ma). It's so weak NO HDD WILL WORK ON IT. Panasonic does put a USB 3.0 port on the back as well (on the 420 model) that supplies more power (DC 5v 900ma) for HDDs, but that means constantly reaching back behind the unit to plug and unplug there all the time, as using a USB extention cable to make it more convenient will sometimes make the HDD unplayable even back there because the cable cuts down on the power. Compare this to the LG. The LG only has a USB 2.0 port in the front -- and it's rated THE SAME as the junky Panasonic front USB port -- (DC 5v 500ma) -- yet HDDs work perfectly with the LG, and LG even mentions HDD usage is okay in the manual. Even with the same power rating, the LG is built so much better, and the front USB always works perfectly with HDDs 100% of the time, while the front USB on the Pana won't work at all. The LG also doesn't need to have a fan, the way the Pana 420 does (some people don't like the fan noise). [Note: With all brands of 4k players, the HDD must be 2TB or less and formatted as MBR, not GPT] NO RESUME (remembering where in the movie it was when you pressed STOP) after pressing STOP on a BluRay disc... ONLY on a UHD disc. Talk about stupid engineering. This is even mentioned in the manual. CANNOT FRAME ADVANCE. When you're watching and press PAUSE, you cannot then do a frame-by-frame advance the way you can on the LG (or even old DVD players!) Pressing PAUSE again simply re-starts the movie. NO EXTERNAL SUBTITLES when playing files off USB/HDD unless the files are included INSIDE an MKV file container. With the LG, if you have "video.mp4" and "video.srt" in the same folder you can view the external subtitles. Not with the Panasonic. The features that the Panasonic touts, like the HCX chip, or lots of speciality menu picture settings, I do not see any improvement on with my setup compared to my LG (and my LG isn't an OPPO, it was a lower-end unit). Add to that, that the Panasonic is cheaply built and basic standard features are mysteriously gone, and it's not something I want. My LG UBK80 is a basic player and doesn't do streaming like the Pana 420 (though its also-discontinued brother, the LG UBK90, does) but I don't care about streaming from my player, I'd rather just have a good, well-designed basic player. I bought the Panasonic 420 (and even a 3rd party remote for it too!) thinking I'd keep it to replace, or keep as a spare, for my LG. Nope. Returned it and found another LG on an auction site instead to keep as a spare.

Works great. With a Samsung tv ,Dolbyvision doesnt matter to me. It makes a definite improvement on dvd discs. Regular Blu-ray discs already looked pretty sharp with the tv upscaling.

This is a great player. The picture and sound quality are superb. I gave the "User Interface" only 3 stars, because: The unit only comes with a Basic Owner's manual, which is VERY limited. You need to go on the web to dig into what this player is capable of doing and that is about everything except make your breakfast! I have not had time to go through everything. But one item I use often is subtitles. There is a button on the remote for subtitles, however It does not always work on older DVDs or perhaps all DVDs. You have to know if the subtitles are digital or analog! In other words when you push the "CC" button to get subtitles, good luck. If you use your DVD player to stream (which I do) the only streaming service I have been able to get the player to lock into is Prime Video. Have not been able to get my VUDU account to come up. So it is a good thing that I have the Apple TV 4K ! I would also like to mention the Remote Control. Why do they have to make it so the buttons are so small, except for the NETFLIX button which I keep pushing when using the arrow keys? Bottom line: I bought this player for the quality of the picture and sound when watching 4K, Blu ray and regular DVDs, then this machine shines.

Most expensive brick i ever bought

Si tienes una tele samsung, este Bluray es muy genial, me encanta su función del HDR para ciertas películas es capaz de aumentar el brillo y sin que se pierda detalles en las peliculas, algunas peliculas que no estan en 4k de igual forma se ven en buena calidad, en cuanto a su apartado del sonido me gusta se escucha muy nítido aun no le pongo algún equipo de audio, para ver que tanto puede hacer, de igual forma recomiendo buscar en internet buenas configuraciones para sacarle el máximo provecho y que a su vez se adapten a tu tv

Depois de uma semana de uso, estou muito satisfeito. O que mais me impressionou foi o upscaling em blu-rays comuns, a imagem fica incrível, mesmo em alguns discos antigos de qualidade não tão boa. Com o disco 4k o resultado foi o esperado. A voltagem é 110v.

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If you have a home theatre with a projector, this is a fantastic option. The player itself has been pretty exceptional for output on both UHD and regular blu rays, but what sets this apart from some of the other available players on the market is the HDR Optimizer (available on the Panasonic UB9000, 820, and 420) which allows you an additional customization to boost the brightness without blowing out the picture depending on how your projector and environment is working. Since most projectors do not support Dolby Vision (and even when they do it's not as good as a TV's version of it), you get the phenominal output present on the 9000 and 820 models at a much more accessible price. The remote for this model feels cheaper than both the UB9000 and UP 820 model, but it's perfectly servicable. The only issue is they placed the Netflix button in an absolutely asinine spot. You can get clone remotes of the UB9000's remote though and it should work fine if you want something more substancial.