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Panasonic UB9000 News Flash — Panasonic UB9000 News Flash Panasonic UB9000 News Flash: It is strongly rumored that a firmware upgrade is available that enables the UB9000 to play SACD plastic discs. This is tremendous news for all audiophiles like myself. All we need now is for the palyer to support Hi-Res audio on DVDA. […]

Panasonic UB9000 News Flash

October 2, 2019 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged Firmware / Panasonic / UB9000 / upgrade by fromvinyltoplastic

Filmmaker Mode Unveiled By UHD Alliance — Filmmaker Mode Unveiled By UHD Alliance At a recent press event at the Screen Actors Guild, Martin Scorsese, members of the UHD Alliance, several major consumer electronics manufacturers, and leading Hollywood filmmakers including Christopher Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Coogler, Rian Johnson, and Patty Jenkins officially announced a new partnership […]

Filmmaker Mode Unveiled By UHD Alliance

September 1, 2019 in Equipment / News tagged 4K / Amazon Prime Video / Filmmaker Mode / LG / Panasonic / TV / UHD / UHD Alliance / UHDA / Universal / Vizio / Warner Bros by fromvinyltoplastic

Panasonic UB9000 News Flash — Panasonic UB9000 & JVC DLA-NX9 Demo On March the 15th JVC announced that they were collaborating with Panasonic to use the HDR metadata contained in 4K UHD discs and available over the HDMI connection in order to optimize the display of HDR material. One of […]

Panasonic UB9000 & JVC DLA-NX9 Demo

March 24, 2019 in Equipment / Equipment / News / Reviews tagged DLA-NX9 / DLA-RS3000 / JVC / Panasonic / UB9000 / Value Electronics by fromvinyltoplastic

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4K Players and 4K Projectors 2019 Roundup For those out there who are in the market for a new 4K player and/or 4K projector, the number of choices seems to be getting smaller by the year for players and larger for projectors. So here is a brief roundup of […]

4K Players and 4K Projectors 2019 Roundup

February 10, 2019 in Equipment / News tagged 4K / BenQ / DILA / Epson / HDR / JVC / LCD / Optoma / Panasonic / Pioneer / Samsung / Sony / SXRD / WCG by fromvinyltoplastic

Panasonic DP-UB450 and DP-UB150 and Sony UBP-X800M2 — Panasonic DP-UB450 and DP-UB150 and Sony UBP-X800M2 @ CES 2019 What is happening to plastic physical media? Sales of vinyl media are sky rocketing and we saw at CES 2019 a good showing of new turntables from companies like Cambridge, VPI, Audio-Technica, Technics and Sony to name just a few. […]

Panasonic DP-UB450 and DP-UB150 and Sony UBP-X800M2

January 26, 2019 in Equipment / News tagged CES 2019 / DP-UB150 / DP-UB450 / Panasonic / Sony / UBP-X800M2 by fromvinyltoplastic

Panasonic's Flagship DM UB9000 4K UHD Audiophile Player — Panasonics flagship DP UB9000 player offers HDR10, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision Panasonic’s 2018 UHD Blu-ray line-up comprises five models ranging from flagship to affordable. Two of them will support Dolby Vision, three will support HDR10+, and four of them will support Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, enabling you to control […]

Panasonics Flagship DP UB9000 4K UHD Audiophile Player

February 18, 2018 in Equipment / News tagged 4K / Audiophile / Dolby Vision / DP UB9000 / HDR10+ / Panasonic / UB9000 / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

Oppo UDP-203 and UDP-205 Now Support HDR10+ — CES 2018 – HDR10+ Update Warner Bros. has announced that it is joining the HDR 10+ Alliance, together with the existing members: Samsung, Panasonic, 20th Century Fox, and Amazon. It will be interesting to see if Disney, who now owns 20th Century Fox, will also ‘join the party’. This new […]

CES 2018 – HDR10+ Update

January 11, 2018 in News / Video tagged 4K / BDA / CES 2018 / DP-UB820 / FZ800 / FZ950 / HDR-10 / MicroLED / OLED / Panasonic / Q9S / Samsung / SL-HDR2 by fromvinyltoplastic