Panasonic UB9000 4K Blu-Ray Player | Unboxing & Review

Premium 4K UHD players are dwindling on the market, but if you’re looking for a high-end disc player, the UB9000 may be the perfect fit for your home theater. In this video, I’ll show you what comes inside the box, and then give you my review in terms of pros and cons.

🗣️ Will you be picking this player up for your home theater? Or is the price too high for your budget? Let me know in the comments!

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⌚️ Time Stamps
0:00 Intro
0:53 Unboxing
3:44 Pro #1: Build Quality
4:23 Pro #2: OEM Remote
5:16 Pro #3: HDR Optimizer
6:11 Pro #4: Playback Diversity
6:43 Pro #5: Smooth Operator
7:29 Con #1: Bloated Pricing
8:17 Con #2: Network Features
9:01 Conclusion & Outro

[RA-eorv]

I own this beast, it’s amazing, not only it plays 4k and blu ray really really well, it’s can upgrade your old DVD looks amazing. Yes old DVD .
Oh, music too, reference level

[rafaelperez]

Just subscribed to your channel based on how concised your reviews are! I'm amazed you don't have more subscribers but just know that I'm one of your newest! Thank you for all that you do and keep up the awesome job!! 👍😁

[georgevillalvazo]

Just wanted to say that I love my Panasonic UB 9000 4K Blu-ray player and I haven’t hooked up to a Sony 83 inch big screen a 90 J and she’s hooked up to premium Sonos sound bar and premium Sonos subwoofer and premium surroundsound speakers the Sonos fives! And it’s just fantastic!👍

[Shaken_AND_Stirred]

Your narration is superb. I’ve seen plenty of YouTube channels where they have all of the fancy studio’s, etc., but the narration is not good. I can see your channel growing quickly.

[ericlozen]

An investment that I'm more than satisfied with. I purchased my UB9000 in 2019 and I haven't had any issues with it. I bought it solely for it's top rated performance specs and nothing else. In that category they deserve an A+ rating. Although Panasonic does flaunt this as a streaming platform I never had the intention to use it as one. I will admit though that they could have (more appropriately, should have) done a much better job than the sloppy and mediocre one they included.

[taqyon]

I agree, for that price a mediocre app support and GUI is not expected. Thanks for the great review.

[justinmorris]

I had a couple of Oppo 203's which are the best value high end universal disk player ever made in my opinion. I was having an issue with one of them so after 7 years I thought I'd upgrade. I bought a Reavon unit and went through 3 of them in 2 weeks, they all failed with different major problems and were all more noisey than an old bar fridge and Reavons response to my complaint, have you upgraded the firmware (hmm the transport falling to pieces inside the unit probably doesn't have anything to do with firmware). So I bought one of these Panasonic units, built like a tank, fast loading, fantastic picture and sound. If you don't need to play SACD or DVD-Audio disks this is the machine for you.

[matthew]

On sale for in the UK for 1K - i expect perfection and would hope at that price there was no skipping and the build quality is up to scratch - also (like most products) is made in China. I don't like the look and feel of the app store though guess you wouldn't buy this player primarily for that. I like Panasonic and given the choice, would get the DP-UB820-K

[amosmoledi]

7:51 Wouldn’t recommend DP-UB820-K. Bought one on Amazon. It didn’t switch on after a few days. My 4k Blu-ray disc was stuck inside. There is no manual eject used with a straightened paper clip. Lost my disc when I returned the player.

[jorgmark]

Hello my friend I saw that you have the panasonic Ub 820 and now you got the ub9000. Which one would you recommend? Your opinion will be really helpful to my decision. Thanks a lot.

[ommaneyemmanuel]

Please, how can I connect it to my other home theatre speakers or any other speakers?(kindly do a video for me).

[hdmoviesource]

Great Player, still the best 4K Blu-ray Player on the market.

[bearclaw]

I applaud you for reviewing the unit but your review kind shit the bed my friend. You didn't even mention the incredible performance the 9000 puts on.
The audio coming from this unit is sensational. If you have a good audio system, this player will push it to it's max. It sounds amazing over the analog outs as well, by-passing your receiver and going straight to your amplifier.
The 9000's video is a small step up from the 820's FYI. But the 9000 monsters the 820 in the audio dept. with thunderous, crisp sound. It is a much nicer ownership experience as well.
I just plugged in my old Sony 800xm2. It looks good, it sounds decent. And if 200 or so is your budget, it's the one to get. But the 9000 is actually a great value especially compared to Revon and Magnetar models, which lack the Panasonics video processing chops.

[Gaming-Enthusiast]

Just ordered this as a back up
Player

[madmaskcena]

Is it sound better than the 820 ? I have a zidoo uhd5000 and when I tried the same Blu-ray I got a better sound on zidoo. So I need to know if the un 9000 got a bettter precision with sound mapping than 820

[IncognitoChild]

With reference to your review: firstly, the remotes glossy finish is likely to show every single fingerprint that you put on it. The backlight looks like it has to be activated by a button and not motion? And apart from the top inch of the remote, the rest of it is almost a carbon copy of an Oppo 203/205 remote.

I don't know of any THX certified 4K Blu-ray discs and DTS X and Dolby Vision make it largely redundant as a standard and sound format - licence money that could have been used better elsewhere leading me nicely to the next issue...

As far as I can tell it doesn't offer SACD playback? - so not a universal disc player.

If you are going to spend vast amount of money on a high-end 4K Blu-ray player the chances are you already have a high-end screen with all the apps built in, so you wouldn't really need them in this player?
There are two brands that make higher end machines than this but at least one of them doesn't even offer wireless network connection so in many respects, as expensive as you think this machine is, it's not as bad as spending three times that amount and finding you have to plug in an ethernet cable 😫

[themafia]

Is there anyway to make this region free for your R1 DVD's?

[canyonh]

Have it and it can not play mkv files, even directly off a usb. It for some weird reason cannot see anything on my stmp 2.0 local network except the admin folder.

All other devices, windows, apple, nividia, can see all folders and drives perfectly.

[madcrabber]

I would buy it if it played sacd, dvd and blu ray audio discs.

[richardzagozeski]

This player will play 3D Blu-ray Discs, and it is cheaper than the Magnetar UDP 800 or 900