Panasonic UB9000 4K Blu-ray Player Review (vs OPPO 203)

We review Panasonic's flagship DMP-UB9000 4K UHD Blu-ray player, including comparisons against the now-discontinued OPPO UDP-203 Ultra HD Blu-ray player.

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[michaelfoster]

Great job vencent, I understand that the Panasonic has a little better picture quality, but the oppo does better in Dolby vision mode so it seems, one killer feature that oppo has if you have a anamorphic lense projector is the stretch feature taking a letter box movie and turning it into full screen without losing any of the picture, I rip my Blu-rays and just started to rip my 4k movies and the oppo plays mkv files with Atmos and DTX incredible movie server . The oppo will also play a BDMV file which is un heard of .

[FitraHomestead]

Finally, was waiting for this one. Another quality video

[ramonaddison]

Hey Vince. I subscribe to your program because I am constantly amazed at the quality of the reviews you post, and honest assessment of each product. Keep up the great work.

[Maddoggtannanify]

I always think that peep hole on the door is a mark on my screen and go to wipe it off. Thanks for a great video, this is my favorite review channel for TV's and players, so in depth. I sell TV's for a living so it really helps.

[richaneesh]

@12:33 I think both the companies have made a choice. The oppo has chosen to adjust the specular highlights of the bright areas of any scene to be displayed as close as they can to original intended picture, whereas the Panasonic has chosen to prioritize to display the less brighter areas of a scene like the buildings in this scene. Therefore, you can see buildings much clearer in the Panasonic. The reason behind it may be that both the companies' processors have different algorithms to decide what part of a particular scene is important for the viewers. For me, I'd rather prefer the Panasonic in this scene, whereas maybe for you, the Oppo is preferable. It really comes down to personal preference, but it actually is a sad state that even after spending huge money first on a display, then on a player, you still don't get the best picture that is possible.

[angelosegall]

Great review ! Next -Are you going to compare the UB9000 vs UB820 that apparently has lots of operation similarity HDR etc..
Not on price $ 1000 vs $499. Thanks.

[camarykaren]

Love my oppo 205 for my movies and music .
Love the panasonic 820 for its excellent upconversion of streaming Netflix, Amazon prime n Youtube. Something vincent shoukd have looked at cause I would love to hear whats his thought are on it.
Also, panasonic slow as sin in comparrison to the oppo. I mean even turning on the panasonic takes forever.

[kevindavies]

Hi Vincent,
Any chance of checking how the Pioneer LX500 compares?
Thanks

[sparco]

Re Dolby Vision not hitting it’s Peaks. Instead of messing with the contrast I turned the Deep Colour to the 10 bit options and it’s been outputting fine. It’s just been letting my Sony Bravia output the Dolby Vision at 12 bit. No issues

[thepiecesfit]

Any chance we'll get a UB820 vs UB9000 comparison ? Mostly wondering if the chroma handling is the same across these players.

[FrancescoDeMasi]

Great work as usual! Looking forward to your analysis of the latest firmware update for the Lg OLED 2018.

[chost-mp]

Anyone going straight from a bluray player into active monitors with XLR's is making life hard for themselves. It is supposed to go through some sort of pre-amp first, really. It double up as a CD player, not a Cd player/pre amp. If anything its more Hifi/passive speaker orientated.
But i get your point, love your work.

[stingfanify]

Vincent, you accidentally said that the UB9000 was 100 pounds at the end of the video. If only! 🤑😄 Mine cost almost $1000 USD and I got a 5% discount! It produces an AMAZING picture however!!!

Great job always!

[spaceboy]

I bit the bullet and received this bad boy on Monday. I've only had a chance to watch one film so far but love the build. Do you have any videos walking through the optimum settings? Thanks!

[TpFox]

The oppo 203 forced Dolby Vision mode really just fixes almost any issues with bad HDR10 discs for certain scenes (such as elevated blacks in certain scenes in Infinity War/ blown out highlights), less banding and better tone mapping for oleds. Another subtle thing is the oppo 203 just loads so much faster in comparison to the ub9000 if you just want it as a disc workhorse, honestly I was surprised the ub9000 was that much slower in this video. UB9000 seems like it has a really good HDR optimizer function but honestly the forced Dolby Vision has been giving me fantastic results after some serious testing. Would be interesting to see a comparison between the 2 functions on both players.

[ExPsycHo]

Waiting for Sony x800m2 review when it comes out, good video as always 👍👍👍

[thegrimyeaper]

Ordered mine now. I was planning on waiting for a next generation, but with the corona I'm guessing that's not happening.

[tygeezy]

The Panasonic player would have some serious value to me if it had 24 and 25 hz playback through the apps... Most of amazon primes UHD content is in hdr 10 with very little Dolby vision so it’s dynamic tonemapping feature would be great for all of those shows..

[Rich-zc]

Excellent review... but no matter how much research i do, i can't seem to find info about any 4k player on "disc error reading" or "shock resistance" whatsoever! In the past i used to choose which player to buy based on its ability to read through coding errors and disc surface "niks"... not to mention shock and vibration to the unit itself! I remember buying my Technics SL-PD8 cd changer over 20 years ago strictly because it could read through any problem and survive my fist coming down hard on top of it while playing without skipping a beat or even having the audio buffer kicking in! I own a UB-820 which has a very hard time with imperfect discs like "First Blood" & "Color Out Of Space" (3 bought copies of each so far & all have problems with the Panasonic), yet no problems on my LG UBK80... except that the LG can't handle my 18" JBL Selenium subs during an explosion without skipping or freezing up... but the 820 can! I really want to own a UB9000, but not to be outperformed by a $100 LG player in these areas. Does anybody know anywhere or anyone on the net that still actually test these types of things on 4k players? Would really appreciate it. :-)

[tshaolin]

Even if it doesn't manage 10 bit colors, we can still appreciate the impressive high dynamic range of your new camera, it's a great help for your reviews !
I have a question, you've almost convinced me but does the Panasonic have YouTube Hdr ?