Panasonic Streaming 4K Blu Ray Player, Ultra HD Premium Video Playback with Hi-Res Audio, Voice Assist - DP-UB420-K (Black)

I got it refurbished for $187. It's excellent for the cost, plays 4k, does upscaling to 4k (so older DVDs have a little bit of enhancement), HDR10, incredible set of features for the cost. Only thing lacking is dolby vision. Showed up like new with the remote. No fuss. Just works.

Works well. Good price. 4k movies look great.

I like the size of this 4k blueray player. It also seems sturdy and well builI like the picture quality. I'm no expert, but the picture that appears on my television looks top notch. I really believe it makes DVD's and regular bluray disks look even better. The 4k disks look greatMy one disappointment is the technical support department. I had an issue with disks that use the B D live feature. It is a feature that is on some Universal Studio Disks. The disks take forever to load.I called technical support and two people I spoke to were totally unfamiliar with this issue. They blamed it on the disk. This made no sense. Because it was not a problem with another blu ray player i own.This bluray player has a feature that allows you to disable B D live. There is a reason this feature exists with the bluray player. They were unfamiliar with the feature and how it worked. They literally did not know it existed.Thankfully I did research on my own to resolve the issue. It's troubling when I can figure out the problem before trained technical support people can do so.I hope I have no other technical issues with this player.Overall I think this is a great 4k blutay player. I am extremely disappointed with the technical support I have gotten from Panasonic.

This is a great player. The picture and sound quality are superb.I gave the "User Interface" only 3 stars, because: The unit only comes with a Basic Owner's manual, which is VERY limited. You need to go on the web to dig into what this player is capable of doing and that is about everything except make your breakfast! I have not had time to go through everything. But one item I use often is subtitles. There is a button on the remote for subtitles, however It does not always work on older DVDs or perhaps all DVDs. You have to know if the subtitles are digital or analog! In other words when you push the "CC" button to get subtitles, good luck. If you use your DVD player to stream (which I do) the only streaming service I have been able to get the player to lock into is Prime Video. Have not been able to get my VUDU account to come up. So it is a good thing that I have the Apple TV 4K !I would also like to mention the Remote Control. Why do they have to make it so the buttons are so small, except for the NETFLIX button which I keep pushing when using the arrow keys?Bottom line: I bought this player for the quality of the picture and sound when watching 4K, Blu ray and regular DVDs, then this machine shines.

Comparing to my LG UBK80 (no longer made).PICTURE QUALITY: decent, but no better than my LG.Perhaps if one has an ultra-top-tier OLED TV you might be able to see the difference? I have no idea, but using my TV (55" 4K Hisense, Dolby Vision, HDR, HDR10+) I see NO picture improvement w/the Pana over the LG. The Panasonic 420 has their touted "HCX" chip, but the picture looked no better than the LG UBK80 across the board for me, with UHD discs, as well as upconverting from 1080 on multiple BluRays and 1080p files.BUILD QUALITY: cheaply made, feels like it won't last.FLAWS:If you want to use an HDD to play video files, good luck using the front USB 2.0 port (DC 5v 500ma). It's so weak NO HDD WILL WORK ON IT. Panasonic does put a USB 3.0 port on the back as well (on the 420 model) that supplies more power (DC 5v 900ma) for HDDs, but that means constantly reaching back behind the unit to plug and unplug there all the time, as using a USB extention cable to make it more convenient will sometimes make the HDD unplayable even back there because the cable cuts down on the power. Compare this to the LG. The LG only has a USB 2.0 port in the front -- and it's rated THE SAME as the junky Panasonic front USB port -- (DC 5v 500ma) -- yet HDDs work perfectly with the LG, and LG even mentions HDD usage is okay in the manual. Even with the same power rating, the LG is built so much better, and the front USB always works perfectly with HDDs 100% of the time, while the front USB on the Pana won't work at all. The LG also doesn't need to have a fan, the way the Pana 420 does (some people don't like the fan noise).[Note: With all brands of 4k players, the HDD must be 2TB or less and formatted as MBR, not GPT]NO RESUME (remembering where in the movie it was when you pressed STOP) after pressing STOP on a BluRay disc... ONLY on a UHD disc. Talk about stupid engineering. This is even mentioned in the manual.CANNOT FRAME ADVANCE. When you're watching and press PAUSE, you cannot then do a frame-by-frame advance the way you can on the LG (or even old DVD players!) Pressing PAUSE again simply re-starts the movie.NO EXTERNAL SUBTITLES when playing files off USB/HDD unless the files are included INSIDE an MKV file container. With the LG, if you have "video.mp4" and "video.srt" in the same folder you can view the external subtitles. Not with the Panasonic.The features that the Panasonic touts, like the HCX chip, or lots of speciality menu picture settings, I do not see any improvement on with my setup compared to my LG (and my LG isn't an OPPO, it was a lower-end unit). Add to that, that the Panasonic is cheaply built and basic standard features are mysteriously gone, and it's not something I want. My LG UBK80 is a basic player and doesn't do streaming like the Pana 420 (though its also-discontinued brother, the LG UBK90, does) but I don't care about streaming from my player, I'd rather just have a good, well-designed basic player.I bought the Panasonic 420 (and even a 3rd party remote for it too!) thinking I'd keep it to replace, or keep as a spare, for my LG. Nope. Returned it and found another LG on an auction site instead to keep as a spare.