You Said I Was a Fool - Panasonic 4K Blu-ray Player

Just to make things clear, those in the video who got it right COULD tell, but they're all either graphic designers, trained TV calibrators, editors, or writers at LMG.

"They couldn't tell" "They could tell" Real star of this episode.

The UB820 is a great player. It’s a shame a lot of manufacturers have pulled out of making 4K players now. Panasonic, Sony and LG are the only ones that seem to be in it still. Panasonic do the best ones. Some of the players have a show stopping issue of not being able to go to the third layer of a 4K disc without freezing or glitching out.

One of the best parts about LTT videos is they're like wikipedia deep dives. I've wondered about this for a while but didn't even know where to start, and got way more info than I even expected. Great video.

This "problem" was small enough that it definitely didn't warrant an apology. That said, the video is good for extra information on the subject.

One big thing that I'd like to add about Dolby Vision... even though cheaper Blu-ray players may support Dolby Vision, a good number of them do not support automatic switching. In other words, if you're going to watch a movie, you'd need to check to see if it supports Dolby Vision, and if so, turn it on in the player's settings. Also, you'd want to make sure to turn it off when you're done. That's one of the reasons why I went with the Panasonic model after I sold my Oppo as it was pretty much the only model that supported automatic switching. I think there's a cheaper LG model that supports it now too, but I can't recall off the top of my head. Oh, and as a quick side note, one reason why I never even considered the Series X as a UHD player is that I was fairly disappointed by the Xbox One S back in the day. (That was before I had Dolby Vision anyway.) The biggest problem with the One S is that the disc noise was just so loud that it was easily audible in low volume situations. Good Blu-ray players are actually built to help isolate that noise.

One added feature of a standalone Panasonic is the dual hdmi outs, allowing hdr video to be passed to a display, and uncompressed audio to be sent to older avrs. That feature alone sold it for me.

Is it just me or is the videography/editing really really good in this episode? Like the switch between the content and the sponsor block is very evident in quality. I didn't notice this previously on my phone.

Audiophiles are the same. I remember in the 80s, a friend paid a fortune for a CD setup and fridge-sized sub woofer. He'd explain the 'smooth' bell curve compared to the digital bell curve of bits. He'd then play a bit of music and say "Can you hear it?"... to which I would stare at him for a while and say "Ten grand? Really??".

All of this really highlights how far ahead of the curve Pioneer was. They implemented 72Hz 3:3 pull down, and 12-bit processing 15 years ago in DVD and BD

Have an xbox one x, bought a 4k blu-ray player purely for Dolby vision/atmos, looks amazing, but what blew me away was how good the sound quality is, its insane how high-quality is it. Audio is definitely a huge upgrade over streaming services.

I wanted to let you guys know, this is why I really love LTT. You guys take a fairly complicated technical problem (or set of problems) and dissect them into easy to understand smaller problems. Does it teach me everything I want to know? No, but now I know what sorts of questions I should be asking, and how to look for more information. Nice job as always.

"You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct" good to see Linus has an inner bureaucrat

"They couldn't tell" "They could tell" Those cracked me up

Thanks for making an updated video and addressing some of the shortcomings of the last one. Love you guys!

I just wanna say the production value of the last couple of videos has been absolutely amazing. Great watch!

We need more home theater, blue ray, 4k, Imax, Dolby Vision/Audio content from you. Do the whole thing. There's a lot of confusion out there.

The editors that you have are amazing, because they really took what you said and adjusted the screen in real life so we could understand what you were saying and what it actually meant

Very informative! You explained things better than many others have. Thanks.

I have a Panasonic ub820 and haven’t regretted it for over a year now. Between Dolby vision support, chroma upsampling, and other features not mentioned here like dvd/1080p Blu Ray upscaling, hdr tone mapping for a 1000nit cap, and very flexible audio options, it’s been really nice to have a dedicated player. I’d say that if you primarily watch movies on disc it’s worth getting one.