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Panasonic DP-UB420 4K Blu-ray Player $133 Delivered @ Amazon AU

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Panasonic DP-UB420 4K Blu-ray Player $133 Delivered @ Amazon AUAffiliate
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AlsoChris on 22/12/2021 - 13:23 amazon.com.au (1762 clicks)
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Looks to be great pricing for the Panasonic DP-UB420GNK 4K Blu-ray Player, possibly the cheapest we've seen?

Lowest price according to 3xCamels - https://au.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07RLZZ4M6

Also beating out JB sale pricing https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/panasonic-dp-ub420-smart-…

RRP - $ 419.00 according to Panasonic - https://www.panasonic.com/au/consumer/home-entertainment/blu…

No Dolby Vision for what its worth, but at this price for a mid-range 4k player…

EDIT: Looks to be low/out-of stock now
As @ProfBon pointed out you can also buy at this price from Appliance Central - https://www.appliancecentral.com.au/dp-ub420gnk-panasonic-ultra-hd-blu-ray-player?language=en&currency=AUD OOS

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  • jv on 22/12/2021 - 13:25
    -1

    Can it stream Netflix ?

    • jv on 22/12/2021 - 13:26
      +10

      4K internet video distribution is now supported by content such as NETFLIX, Prime Video and YouTube, a wide variety of high-quality content is at your fingertips.

      Appears it can…

    • Hinee on 22/12/2021 - 13:31
      +7

      a typical 'post question quite obviously answered in the deal' comment from jv

      • jv on 22/12/2021 - 13:35
        +9

        Hope it saves others time in having to read through all the specs.

        • odysseus on 22/12/2021 - 16:43
          +1

          … Time which has been consumed having to read through all your comments littered through the posts.

          • jv on 22/12/2021 - 16:56
            +1

            @odysseus:

            having to read through all your comments

            You don't 'have to' Ulysses…

    • foreverphoenix on 22/12/2021 - 13:57

      Hahaha that was funny jv
      Not sure why these humourless (profanity) negative vote

  • solidsnek on 22/12/2021 - 13:28
    +1

    No Dolby Vision :(

  • Corgsta on 22/12/2021 - 13:34
    +4

    Yeah think I’m going to jump on this one, haven’t had a bluray player as yet and this price is decent! Especially since it can do Prime, that’s a bonus. Panasonic is good.

    • jv on 22/12/2021 - 13:38
      +36

      Yeah think I’m going to jump on this one

      That is likely to void the warranty.

      • ntt on 22/12/2021 - 13:44

        thank you captain!

      • node modules on 22/12/2021 - 13:58
        +2

        Likely to damage the device, too

  • wchang235 on 22/12/2021 - 13:40
    +3

    Thanks OP, have been looking at this model for a while and almost bought at Harvey Norman last night for $245. Arriving at my door tomorrow.

    • ntt on 22/12/2021 - 13:47

      Hi, Amazon delivery supervisor here, please provide your address with an iTunes gift card before tomorrow to win a prize.

      ntt on 22/12/2021 - 13:47 (Collapsed - Offtopic. Show)
    • ntt on 22/12/2021 - 13:48
      +6

      maybe only you, everyone else watch Bluray

      • Naigrabzo on 22/12/2021 - 13:53
        +2

        DUDE I got FOMO!

    • [Deactivated] on 22/12/2021 - 13:53
      +2

      It's 4K, so rather than anymore, it never really caught on in the first place. There are still some collectors I guess, but obviously streaming or having the files yourself is a much better user experience.

      • Naigrabzo on 22/12/2021 - 13:54
        +1

        YAH. I have a similar very old unit. I should dust it off and watch some old disks on it.

      • Hinee on 22/12/2021 - 14:50
        +5

        Streaming is a better experience than watching a 4k BD? Are you fair dinkum? If you have the hardware to do it justice, playing from a 4k disc will be a considerably better experience.

        • [Deactivated] on 22/12/2021 - 15:14
          -4

          Streaming from a quality source is a better user experience, yes. Why are discs an inferior experience? You have to get up to put them in and take them out. You have to get up to watch the next episode in a series. You have to be able to find the damn thing, and hope it's not lost or broken.

          Now, I prefer to have the files myself. Streaming is reliant on a solid network connection, and I've certainly experienced spotty reception before. My current internet DC's every few mins. They've been sort of trying to fix it for weeks.

          Can you name one advantage to having a disc? No, bitrate is not an inherent quality of discs. Other than collectability, which I would argue is simply taking up space, discs are inferior in every way to simply having the files in equal quality. I also enjoy using my player that has a remote that uses RF rather than IR, so I don't need to point it at anything.

          • Hinee on 22/12/2021 - 15:25
            +4

            @[Deactivated]: Obviously scrolling through Netflix and picking a movie is easier than getting up and putting a disc in. I'm talking about the actual experience of watching the movie.

            Your bitrate comment confuses me - in a discussion on streaming vs disc, yes bitrate is an inherent quality when you're dealing with getting a 4k signal to your screen. A streamed movie will never look & sound as good as a 4KBD

            • [Deactivated] on 22/12/2021 - 15:35
              -5

              @Hinee: Netflix is not the only method of streaming anymore than VCDs (Do you know what those are?) are the only form of optical disc.

              What you're saying is that the best form of disc, a high bitrate 4K uncompressed video, looks better than the worst form of streaming, a heavily compressed, low bitrate stream. Well, obviously.

              That would be like me saying YouTube is better than discs using VCDs as a comparison.

              A streamed movie at an equivalent bitrate will look and sound identical to a disc. However the user experience of discs is inferior to streaming. That's why I mentioned bitrate. Since, as I suspected, you seem to think Netflix = streaming.

              • thatguyfromthatplace on 23/12/2021 - 10:21

                @[Deactivated]: "At an equivalent bitrate." Pray tell, which streaming service offers that? Is it none of them? Yeah, it's none of them.

          • Whisper Quiet on 22/12/2021 - 16:02
            +3

            @[Deactivated]: Id rather have the files on my hard drive than a disc of course but you wouldn't get the full quality without the actual bluray in the first place being ripped or downloading it. Streaming or even downloading a stream rip is still inferior to the bluray. So we still do need the disc. Unless they start doing something very different

            • [Deactivated] on 22/12/2021 - 16:15
              -3

              @Whisper Quiet: There needs to be a source, obviously. That doesn't need to be a disc. Depending on the capacity, 4KBDs have a maximum data rate of either 92Mpbs or 144Mbps using the h.265 codec. A file or stream with an identical bitrate will look identical. A file or stream with a higher bitrate will be superior. Of course many 4KBDs are only upscaled 2K, and nowhere near the maximum bitrate.

              4KBD never really became as popular as previous disc formats, probably due to cost and the superior user experience of streaming. People still use DVDs. Quality is not the determining factor of popularity.

              There's no reason why even Netflix couldn't stream at a higher bitrate than 4KBDs, other than the fact that so few people would notice or care, or be able to stream it, that they don't consider it worth their time. Of course hobbyists with Plex servers can and do stream at the highest quality right now.

              • Whisper Quiet on 22/12/2021 - 17:58

                @[Deactivated]: That's what I mean about doing something different. Sony Bravia Core has 80MBps max bitrate for their high end content but they only have standard DTS audio with it. Sometimes I preferred that over the actual bluray for pic quality but lucky the download has the full audio muxed in otherwise id have to do it myself. So its heading in the right direction but not quite there yet.

          • FrugalSplack on 22/12/2021 - 16:29
            +2

            @[Deactivated]:

            Can you name one advantage to having a disc?

            What about the fact that we live in Australia and internet is garbage especially for 4K

            • [Deactivated] on 22/12/2021 - 16:38

              @FrugalSplack: Files are still superior should your internet be bad, or non existent.

          • odysseus on 22/12/2021 - 16:51
            +1

            @[Deactivated]: "You have to get up to put them in and take them out. You have to get up to watch the next episode in a series. You have to be able to find the damn thing, and hope it's not lost or broken"

            None of which really stack up. What is the ardour in getting up every two hours? In fact, it's healthier for you so that's actually a plus. The second point is a repetition of the first. And the last point is extremely rare, so you could argue equivalently that streaming is bad as you might have to spend time logging in, or the much more relatively frequent occurrence than disks being broken or lost, that you get buffering, lag, or just have a complete internet outage.

            Plus when you have the disk, you own it. Not an issue when in some months time that series/movie is removed from your streaming service so you don't have it at all. And nothing's going to show that movie/series to you then through that streaming service.

            Personally, if streaming works for you, great… but that doesn't make it definitively better as you claim. Just you prefer it for yourself, which is fine.

            • [Deactivated] on 22/12/2021 - 16:58

              @odysseus: Files are better than streaming. I only stream on a handful of free services, that don't offer their content on disc anyway.

              Are you really trying to argue that getting up is better? There's nothing stopping you from doing that with files or streaming either. Next time you get in your car, do ten pushups first. It's healthier for you. So it's actually a plus. Sounds stupid? Yes, it does.

    • diddy50 on 22/12/2021 - 14:15

      I do

  • zaphy on 22/12/2021 - 13:48
    +1

    Region-free?

    • montorola on 22/12/2021 - 13:54
      -7

      Lol the whole region free thing is soooo 2002

      • justtoreply on 22/12/2021 - 14:05
        +5

        Would you like to borrow my username?

  • citybargainhunter on 22/12/2021 - 13:50
    +1

    one reviewer says it's not region free?

    • Magical Sound Shower on 22/12/2021 - 13:54
      +3

      4K UHD discs are region free except for a very few that have cropped up this year. This player is not Blu-ray or dvd region free though.

      • Morbo66 on 22/12/2021 - 13:58

        Do you know of any that are region free (for blu ray and/or dvd)?

        • Magical Sound Shower on 22/12/2021 - 14:03

          For this series of Panasonic models you can pay for a hacked custom firmware but I haven't really looked in to it yet.

          Alternatively you can buy this region free Laser Blu-ray player from Big W. Not sure how good it is though.

        • [Deactivated] on 22/12/2021 - 14:04

          You can set DVD players to region 0, which should work for most discs, but potentially not all. From what I remember, BD never had a region 0, but many players let you switch region as often as you like. Some would only do so in the service menu though.

        • Foxxster on 22/12/2021 - 15:56
          +2

          I bought the 820 a month or so ago. It was not region free for dvd out of the box. You need to take it to a Panasonic service centre where they will change it to region free for free while you wait.

        • Whisper Quiet on 22/12/2021 - 16:04
          +1

          Theres plenty of websites that have the codes for each player to make them region free. Its basically a cheat code you put in through the remote. Just google it

  • vinni9284 on 22/12/2021 - 13:50
    +3

    Just get a second hand XBox one x for $250 that will give you more enjoyment than wiping dust off your 4K bluray

    • FrugalSplack on 22/12/2021 - 13:51
      +1

      Where tf are you finding a One X used for $250? The One S can do 4K Blu-ray for probably that price though

      • vinni9284 on 22/12/2021 - 13:52
        +1

        I've seen a few for that price on gummie and FB. You have to be hot off the mark as they sell faster than toilet paper (well past tense) Usually ppl offload their old stock due to XBSX etc

    • SimAus007 on 22/12/2021 - 13:54
      +2

      Yeah, I was just thinking the same, and Xbox One X is a better choice on many levels.
      I use mine for Blu-ray (not that I buy many now), Netflix, Amazon Prime, HeyU, Optus Sport, Apple TV+, ABC iView and Stan…ohhhhh and gaming, of course :)

      • vinni9284 on 22/12/2021 - 13:57
        +1

        Well, think about it. How slow will the OS be on the Panasonic? They're sluggish and their apps aren't better either. Buy the xbox, games are cheap second hand, OS is fast and snappy etc. Bluray is dead IMO. If you have many then the xbox is a better choice.

  • Typo on 22/12/2021 - 13:55

    Is it just me or are door stops expensive these days?

    • Naigrabzo on 22/12/2021 - 14:33

      LMAO! Might be too light to stop a door. These things are mostly empty.

      • Typo on 22/12/2021 - 14:57
        +1

        Good point

  • bargainhuntaa on 22/12/2021 - 14:03
    +2

    Can we connect this to a plasma TV? My Plasma isn’t 4k.

    • vinni9284 on 22/12/2021 - 14:04
      +1

      Yes. it is retrospective of technology but it will be limited to the max resolution of your TV. So in your case 1080p (via HDMI). Defeats the purpose of buying one unless you want to upgrade your TV. You can get DVD players for half that price

      • JediJan on 22/12/2021 - 14:16
        +1

        For those of us without 4K tv's etc. will this be as effective as a regular blu-ray player?

        Everything I have is Panasonic and have been more than happy with the brand. I have a blu-ray player already, and a 3D tv, but we mostly use Amazon Prime or Disney these days fir movies etc. Was considering giving son the old blu-ray and upgrading mine, to one day … get a 4K tv, so imagine this would be handy to have. Great price too.

        • vinni9284 on 22/12/2021 - 14:17
          +2

          will this be as effective as a regular blu-ray player?

          Yes

          • Jackson on 23/12/2021 - 07:56
            +1

            @vinni9284: Yes, but a 1080p bluray player can be had for as little as 25 bucks at the local OP shop

      • diddy50 on 22/12/2021 - 15:24
        +1

        But a dvd player won't play any bluray discs.
        So this would be a great unit if you have blurays

        • vinni9284 on 22/12/2021 - 15:33
          +1

          Correct. I'm referencing to an older 1080p TV and price however a cheap bluray player is better than a DVD

    • Naigrabzo on 22/12/2021 - 15:17
      +1

      Yer. as long as it has HDMI connection.

  • ZeeFlyingMonkey on 22/12/2021 - 14:04
    +1

    Well spotted OP !

  • lachhelix on 22/12/2021 - 14:10

    Wowza! What a bargain

  • ChiefAJ on 22/12/2021 - 14:11
    +3

    Good player for those $8.79 UHDs from Amazon.

  • VerticallyIntegrated on 22/12/2021 - 14:19

    Amazing price!

    Got this for $299 from JB over a year ago.

  • puppetmaster on 22/12/2021 - 14:24
    +1

    OOS

  • sgltech on 22/12/2021 - 14:28

    Amazon is quoting me $370. Has this deal expired?

  • Phorm on 22/12/2021 - 14:41
    +3

    I have this model, bought a few years ago Boxing Day for $139. It is fantastic, and only way to watch 4K properly.

    • Naigrabzo on 22/12/2021 - 15:18

      Betta than Disney 4k / dolby vision / HDR blah blah

  • JL1 on 22/12/2021 - 14:51
    +1

    Ub820 much better image quality? Worth the extra?

    • ZeeFlyingMonkey on 22/12/2021 - 14:57

      Can you get it for anywhere close to the price of this one ?

      • regenade on 22/12/2021 - 15:08

        Not much except slightly faster interface and Dolby Vision support. But its almost 3.5x the price at $449 at Good Guys

        • Tikester on 22/12/2021 - 15:19

          Wonder if there's much noticeable difference with either the UB420 or UB820 to an Xbox…

          • ZeeFlyingMonkey on 22/12/2021 - 15:33

            @Tikester: Where I've noticed a difference in dedicated 4K players over the xbox is the noise when it's playing the disc … all 4K's are loud towards the centre of the disk as it has to rotate faster but some of the dedicated players seem to do it in a way that don't sound like a jet engine. Not sure about this one.

      • JL1 on 22/12/2021 - 16:20

        I cannot but if no dolby vision then might as well use a console to play 4k?

        Not sure if imaging will be big upgrade for the 820 compared to this. Read good reviews regarding the 820.

    • omblygombly on 22/12/2021 - 16:41
      +1

      The 820 is a marginally better built player. It has Dolby Vision and has a led display at the front is about twice the width of the 420. Besides that the players are much the same. Both are excellent at colour reproduction with 4:4:4 and have HDR 10+

  • antve on 22/12/2021 - 15:15
    +1

    Typical Appliance Central wont ship this to Tasmania

    • Jackson on 23/12/2021 - 08:00
      +3

      It's understandable, being a different country

  • Carrera1963 on 22/12/2021 - 15:27
    +1

    Damn that's an epic price for the UB420!

    It's got dual HDMI out, so can do HDMI1 direct to your TV & HDMI2 to an older (non-eARC) receiver.

    • omblygombly on 22/12/2021 - 16:32
      +3

      Just to clarify..One of the HDMI ports is audio only, the other HDMI is both audio and picture.

  • BargainHunterJohnnyB on 22/12/2021 - 15:53
    +1

    Just snagged one of these to use with my Samsung QLED. :) I've heard that DVDs are much better than streaming services in terms of audio and video quality, so why not give it a go aye?

    • twist3d on 22/12/2021 - 16:27
      +1

      Yeah 480i DVD quality blows 4k outta the water.

    • TEER3X on 22/12/2021 - 17:06

      Samsung make great TVs, but I think OLED and Dolby vision content is the best

  • blackpizza on 22/12/2021 - 16:13

    i missed it! :(

    • JL1 on 22/12/2021 - 16:21
      +1

      Appliance Central! Backorder though.

      • blackpizza on 22/12/2021 - 16:25

        oh thanks! its alright, im not in a hurry ;)

        • JL1 on 27/12/2021 - 15:01

          Hope you got it!

  • ilove on 22/12/2021 - 17:09

    CAn Ps3 console play region free needed blu ray? how?

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