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)

Feels cheap but good,that's what I paid for. It doesn't have fancy looks or features on the outside bit it functions well with good sound and picture. Watching a 4k disk on it is visually better than streaming 4k, deeper and better colors. I recommend.

This 4k blu-ray player is a good choice if you are looking for a basic player. It plays your 4k disc in Dolby Vision or HDR10. The player doesn't come with apps (no Netflix, YouTube, etc.). The picture quality is beautiful. The remote control is a bit small. So, if you have big fingers you might want to us a universal remote. Another thing about this player is if you play a disc and you get a message saying the disc is not compatible. The issue is not the player but the disc is bad. I would recommend you to get a replacement for the bad disc.

I mainly bought this to play multi-region discs since I have a small collection of region 1 DVDs. Being from South Africa, many 4K UHD Blu-ray Discs only include a region A Blu-ray, and I love exploring the special features—most of the immersive extras in a 4K package are on the Blu-ray Disc only. This is a Region 1 DVD and Region A Blu-ray Disc player. I managed to find a remote hack that allows me to play my native Region B Blu-Ray Discs. However, it requires a very specific remote to enter the necessary button sequence, which I don’t have to play region 2 DVD’s. Plus, the hack that works for Blu-ray Discs doesn’t work for DVDs. I watched my 4K UHD Blu-Ray Discs via my Xbox Series X and I didn’t really have a problem with it, but the Panasonic DP-UB450P-K is hands down, no, HANDS TIED BEHIND ITS BACK, A BETTER PLAYER AND HAS BETTER SETTINGS OPTIONS AND CAPABILITIES. The remote doesn’t just feel like a child’s toy, it is in-fact exactly that, a child’s toy, with a very unintuitive, cluttered button layout. I setup my Logitech Harmony remote to control the player instead of the included remote. In conclusion, coming from a console, this player is an upgrade, and if you're on a budget and don’t need wifi or streaming services, (it does have ethernet) and you want a simple set it and forget it set up, this is your best bet. DOLBY VISION/ATMOS, HDR10+ right out of the box, can play multi-region Blu-Ray Discs with a hack.

Looks, works, and sounds great! One downside, however, was that it didn’t come with an HDMI cable! If you’re going to buy this player, make sure to have a very nice one on hand before setting up.

While it worked I would give it 4 out of 5 stars. It occasionally would not read discs, but if you ejected the disc 1 to 2 times it would eventually recognize the disc and play. I had no freezinging issues and it played all regional discs. Plays either HD10+ or Dolby Vision. The tray was a bit noisy when opening and closing. Was watching a 4k - Alien - and stopped to eat dinner. I went to resume playing and got the message about the disc being incompatible. No matter how many times a ejected the disc it would not recognize it. I tried 11 other discs and it no longer recognized anything or any format. 4k Bluray or DVD could not be read. Unglugged everything including power and HDMI. Reset every thing. This device no longer works. I bought it exactly 90 days go so only parts will be covered under warrenty. Been 3 days and Panasonic still has not gotten back to me about packing and shipping it back for repairs. Depending on cost it may simply go into the trash. Already went to Best Buy and bought a Sony X800M2 which I like better. So far it reads all discs...also region free no HD10+ but does have Dolby Vision which is better in my opinion. Tray is ultra quiet. If it does not cost too much money to repair the Panasonic UB450, it will be a backup if the Sony ever breaks. At this time however, Panasonic is not impressing me. Glad I didn't buy one of their new TVs after entering the U.S. market again if this is the type of quality and service I can expect from them.

Works. Had to get a new HDMI cord to take advantage of its full functionality (I had no idea there was a newer higher bandwidth standard now). Menu UI seems oddly of low quality for such a device, but I think this reflects more on the Panasonic design team than anything.

Great picture only wide screen for blue ray and hd.

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