UHD Blu-ray Players (1 Viewer)

[Raul Marquez]

With the new Samsung UHD player already out, though in short supply. Our local Best Buy brought in 8 units on release day which sold out that day, and they are still waiting for a new shipment.
Today I read a review of the Panasonic DMP-UB900 UHD player, but have not been able to get any release info on it (or pricing information).
Have any of you received any info on this player or know how it compares against the Samsung model? It also appears that the Oppo UHD offering will probably be available next year from what I've read. (I hope I'm wrong)

 

[Sam Posten]

It's overpriced, that's all I need to know... No DV nothing to make it more valuable than the 8500 and I stopped paying attention. I recommend all but the most crazed of enthusiasts wait for E3 and see if PS 4.5 truly has UHD support

 

[Raul Marquez]

Sam,
Do you have the Samsung player? If so, what are your experiences with it?

Raul

 

[DavidMiller]

I have been very happy with the Samsung player. I bought it to hold me over until the Oppo arrives (in Dec, fingers crossed). They have released several firmware updates that fixed most of the bugs. The Panasonic seems to have issues with Atmos getting drop outs. They are working on a fix hopefully to be out before it hits the US market.

 

[Sam Posten]

The Samsung is great with 3 caveats:
$400 is overpriced, the others are just overpriced more
No Dolby vision support
Ads

It is tricking ridiculous that I can't turn ads off on a device I paid $400 for

One more minor quibble: there is no mechanism for a user to move the apps they use first to replace Samsung's default top apps

 

[Raul Marquez]

Sam,

What kind of ads? Where? On the Main Menu Page?

 

[DavidMiller]

The Samsung is great with 3 caveats:
$400 is overpriced, the others are just overpriced more
No Dolby vision support
Ads

It is tricking ridiculous that I can't turn ads off on a device I paid $400 for

One more minor quibble: there is no mechanism for a user to move the apps they use first to replace Samsung's default top apps

What Ads... Where are the ads at I never have seen any.

 

[Sam Posten]

They may have removed em from the initial run. Haven't used mine in a month, been mostly watching streams and video games on my office 4K tv and Blus in the basement. Mine is hooked up in the living room awaiting a 4K replacement down the road. I don't have room in my office for another deck...

 

[Sam Posten]

The Samsung deck now supports Amazon HDR, assuming your TV supports HDR10. It's the first non Amazon box to do so. Vizio P owners like myself will finally be able to get HDR10 and Dolby Video from both Streams and Disks as soon as Vizio releases their next patch. Huzzah!

 

[Sam Posten]

Also, I didn't notice any ads while playing with my deck tonight, so it looks like that is OBE.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I don't have this player so I can't comment directly - but Robert Harris has had a lot of difficulty with his unit. You might want to check any of his "A Few Words About..." posts that cover UHD titles.

 

[DavidMiller]

I personally haven't had any issues and several other people I know haven't had any issues either... The Panasonic has had issues with Atmos playback and dropouts. They where dropping a new firmware to fix it in theory. So none of these players are perfect out of the gate.

 

[Sam Posten]

It was certified UHD premium today:
http://www.twice.com/news/blu-raydvd/samsung-4k-blu-ray-player-gets-uhd-alliance-certification/61401

Apparently you don't need to support DV for that

 

[DavidMiller]

It was certified UHD premium today:
http://www.twice.com/news/blu-raydvd/samsung-4k-blu-ray-player-gets-uhd-alliance-certification/61401

Apparently you don't need to support DV for that

DV is only an optional spec to UHD disks. So no it is not part of it the baseline is HDR10 otherwise Samsung would not back it.

 

[Raul Marquez]

It was certified UHD premium today:
http://www.twice.com/news/blu-raydvd/samsung-4k-blu-ray-player-gets-uhd-alliance-certification/61401

Apparently you don't need to support DV for that

Sam,

Waiting for my Sammy UHD player to arrive. Did you "calibrate" the 4K set you connected it to? I think I read that the player resets calibration settings on the 4K display. Is that so?

Raul

 

[Matt Hough]

There is a a fine review of the Sammy player in the latest issue of Sound & Vision. I was reading parts of the review last night.

 

[Sam Posten]

Sort of Doc. It ignores the Backlight setting, it HAS to use a very specific backlight amount to ensure HDR quality.



Details in there, will see if I can find a text description.

 

[Raul Marquez]

Connected by new Samsung 4K UHD player to my Samsung 4K set today.

All I can say is....

WOW !!!

Without any calibrations, the DETAILS and the COLORS are SPECTACULAR!

Don't regret this impulse buy at all.

When you consider the entry price points for previous players (DVD, LD, HDDVD and Blu-rays), $399 for this player is not bad.

 

[DavidMiller]

Yep, and even with the one short coming of the player (the remote) it is a solid device and works very well.

 

[Carlo_M]

I'm of the opposite mindset. It's not just the remote but the lack of functionality (step backwards, getting to FF/REW is super frustrating). I've even updated my universal Harmony remote in hopes that the missing functions were there...no such luck. I've got about 5 days left on my return policy, and I'm seriously thinking of returning the Samsung UBD-K8500. These are very basic functions that Samsung left off of the player that $49 Wal-Mart BD players can do (and yes those functions are missing when you try to play back BD as well, not just UHD)