Panasonic Premium 4K Blu Ray Player, UHD DVD Blu Ray Player with Hi-Res Sound, 4K VOD Streaming, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision™, DP-UB450 (Black)

I got this Panasonic (branded) 4K Blu Ray as my Samsung was just too troublesome. The price was fair, and the performance with 4K discs is everything you might imagine. It's unexpected super power is in its upscaling of standard DVD's and Blu Rays. I tested playing a standard DVD in a standard (Pioneer)DVD player, my (Pioneer) Blu Ray, and this Panasonic 4K Blu-Ray. The difference was incredible. Even standard DVD's look great! ... No pixelization at all - even on a 100" screen! Its performance is unequalled to date. This merits of looking at this player even for just its incredible upscaling performance are valid, seriously ... It's that good! I recommend it 100%

What a superb improvement on playing 4K discs on my LG C5 TV. Huge improvement. Automatically plays in the best video mode available on the disc. Highly recommend.

The picture quality is great and it works well. Personally, I mostly wanted to upgrade from my Sony because another reviewer had said that the "media player" (off USB drive) was excellent and I've got my entire, enormous DVD collection of many thousands digitized onto a hard drive, so so many products that claim to support this, do it at the bare minimum... sometimes unusably (My Samsung TV will spend 10 minutes trying to read the files in one directory!) The Sony also had issues with navigating large folders... very painful. THIS player is MUCH better at reading the file system... the directories pop up immediately. The UI is high-res and clear, but I could have used a slicker looking interface than just dull directories of file names... but at least it works quickly. The BAD... It doesn't take lot of effort to hang this box to the point of needing to reboot. The first HD VIDEO FILE that I played froze the system up as soon as I went into double-fast-forward mode. (It would be a nightmare to return to a point deep inside a file if you ever accidentally exited it!) Another HD movie hung up the system during playback a short while later as well. But we have successfully watched several other movie files. I've NOT see it misbehave while playing discs. We've also seen some issues with closed caption (again, on video files, not on discs) where the captions would display each line for minutes at a time... so by the end of the show, it would still be showing lines from the beginning. Not sure if this is a widespread issue or specific to the files (from BBC discs of "Death in Paradise".) I've not seen any caption issues with discs so far. UPDATE: I wrote that it doesn't support CEC (one device controlling another over the HDMI cable) but that's not true. My SONY would turn off/on my whole system (TV, AV Receiver) whenever I powered off/on the DVD player... but this one behaves a little differently and it took me a couple more times to realize it. If I use the player's remote to turn the DVD off, it does not power down the whole system... but I CAN use the TV remote to control the DVD player (so it must be communicating) and if I turn the TV off... it WILL turn off the DVD player along with everything else... in a way, it's actually the preferred behavior, so you can turn off the DVD player and switch to something else without accidentally powering everything off. It also seems that for a "premium" player, it could use higher quality materials... it's not bad, it's just no better than any other player at half the price. So... video quality-wise, no complaints. All the basic stuff is well presented and easy to use (although it took me a while to figure out that it had SEPARATE settings for old-school 608 vs HD 708 closed captions, so I couldn't figure out why they wouldn't display after I turned them on... gotta set both!) The media player feature, while better than most, still feels like an afterthought and could has room for improvement. 4.0 - 4.5 stars

I originally bought another brand (not sure if I am able to say S--y in a review) that was more expensive than this one, and supposedly had better features. It did not work well, so I got this one. This Panasonic is more reliable than the other brand. It doesn't freeze during playback (the other one did), and its video and audio quality are just as good. It is lower cost, and is also more compact so it fits in smaller spaces. The Panasonic doesn't feel as sturdy as the S--y, because its housing is plastic compared to the metal housing of the player that didn't work well. I'll take one that works even though it has a plastic housing instead of one that doesn't work, with a metal housing. This Panasonic has an external power supply similar to what you would use with a laptop computer. The other one was internal, which probably added a bit to its weight. I think worth mentioning, freezing during playback has been a known problem with that other brand for a while. It was supposedly corrected by a firmware update, but when I updated the firmware, it improved nothing.

Recently, my girlfriend and I decided it was time to upgrade our "living room movie theater". First up was a new TV. I'd always heard fantastic things about OLED, so I decided it was time. I bought a 65" LG C3 to pair with our already existing surround sound system. I'll never be able to go back to another kind of TV. I'm a big physical media guy, and this was our first 4K TV, so next up was a 4K player. Trying to find a reasonably priced unit proved to be more difficult than I ever thought it'd be. It had to support multiple formats and that's where you start to run into issues. Most players with those capabilities tend to start in the $500 range. I first went with a Sony UBP-X700M. It seemed to work fine until it started to freeze during disc playback. Did some more research and learned this is a problem that's well known in the home theater community. I immediately returned it for a refund. Initially, I thought I was going to have to fork over another $250 to grab a Panasonic DP-UB820 (the most positively reviewed player under $600) until I came across this listing. Apparently, this player's been available in other countries for quite a while but has just hit the market here in the United States. I'm quite thankful I got into this when I did or else I would've spent so much more. There's not a lot of bells and whistles here, but that's perfectly fine with me. I use my LG TV's apps and such. I bought this player for my 4K/blu-ray discs and, for that purpose, this thing's fantastic. It supports Dolby Vision (lots of players in this price range don't) and HDR10+. It also features 2 HDMI ports to separate the audio and video signals. Doesn't feel like it's made from the strongest of materials, so I definitely wouldn't stack anything on top of it. If you're just getting into this whole home theater thing, this is literally the best there is right now.

Excelente calidad en 4K con un precio muy accesible, reproduce según su televisión el HDR, HDR+, HLG y el Dolby Vision. La reproduccion des bluray y hasta de los DVD es mas que excelente. Tiene la posibilidad de mandar la imagen en su TV y al sonido a parte con cualquier amplificador audio gracias a sus dos salidas HDMI.

Apesar de não top de linha, o player é sem dúvida a melhor opção custo/benefício do mercado. É compatível com HDR, Dolby Vision e HDR10+. Na parte de som toca todos os formatos existentes incluindo os recentes Dolby Atmos e DTS X. Além de reproduzir blurays UHD com excelente qualidade, faz um upscaling muito bom de blurays e DVDs. É um aparelho bem básico, sem a opção de streming de Netflix e outros, mas cumpre exatamente o que se espera de um aparelho 4K. Excelente qualidade de vídeo e audio.

Excelente para un Blu ray player con caracteristícas de premium pero a un costo menor. Lo único que podría no gustar es que no es wi fi, no tiene apps pero se puede actualizar con cable de red, y las apps las tengo en mi roku.

comprei esse aparelho 4k, pq tenho um Sony 4k e tive problemas com congelamentos e leitura com esse aparelho em diversas mídias uma dela no 4k da banda Queen ( que se quer carregava o menu ) na qual eu tive que solicitar a troca, achando que o problema era o disco com defeitos mas essas mesmas mídias em que meu aparelho Sony não reconheceu ou congelava a imagem, rodam tranquilamente no meu Panasonic, ele tem todos os recursos que eu preciso e só não tem aplicativos nele instalados e se precisar fazer uma atualização de firmware tem que se ligar direto um cabo de rede, isso pra mim não e nenhum problema , quanto qualidade de imagem e som dele achei superior ao da Sony e eu ja tinha visto isso em alguns fóruns sobre o aparelho, se vc procura um bom reprodutor para ver seus filmes em 4k e com upscaling muito bom, recomendo a compra deste aparelho !

No funcionó y no he recibido la devolución. El producto es Panasonic en el sentido que tiene el nombre escrito pero la calidad es ínfima. Tengo un Bluray Panasonic que lleva funcionando 15 años. Este producto "nuevo" no pudo leer ni discos de audio. Sigo sin recibir mi reembolso aunque Amazon ya recibió el equipo desde hace 3 meses y no hay nada que pueda hacer para que no se sal