OliverK
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From what I have seen all OPPO, Sony and Samsung players employ no sharpening with sharpness set to zero while Panasonic is still employing sharpening at the zero sharpness setting so they require a negative sharpness setting in order not to introduce artificial sharpness. I seem to remember it was something like -3 but it has been a long time since I checked.Well, that depends on what you're looking for in a 4K UHD player. If you're primarily interested in high-quality video playback, the UB820 and UB9000 can't be beaten. I put both of these up against my Oppo UDP-203 and felt that both Pannies produced more detailed 4K and Blu-ray playback with my OLED display. It was somewhat subtle but definitely noticeable. The Oppo was slightly soft in comparison.
By now it has been pointed out to Panasonic more than once and they had many firmware versions released where this could have been addressed for multiple players but the issue is still there. I can only assume that this is a deliberate effort to make people think that their players are sharper even with no sharpening applied and when these players handle the upscaling they also add some extra ringing due to their upscaling algorithm.