This is good news to me. I've been reading in the Sony X800 thread and most people say that PQ is better than the Samsung. I was thinking of getting the Sony just because of this but if they all look identical to you then there's no point in me getting another player (at least until DV is more popular).

Thanks

I had all 3 players too. I currently have the Sony I think the Sony and Panasonic are way superior all around players than the Samsung. Sony is just a lil bit more money than the Samsung and worth the extra $$$. PQ is close with every machine on the market so to the casual eye they all gonna look the same but in my opinion the Sony and Panasonic are the same in PQ with the Samsung falling slightly behind. Samsung lacks the Picture settings the Sony and Panasonic feature!

I'm sure people can see a difference. Just as people will swear up and down there is a PQ difference between a PS3 and stand-alone players.

Honestly though, current Best Buy new prices are $230 for Sammy and $300 for Sony. I'd pay the extra $70 for Sony reliability alone.

No doubt about it. The Panasonic has a TON of PQ controls. The HDR slider alone is pretty incredible. With default settings though, they all looked pretty identical to me. (Panasonic allowing for the most image manipulation, of course).

here is the 1010 Firmware

22 downloads so far and not 1 Thanks....smh

In all seriousness, this forum is stingy with the likes.

would I see an improvement in PQ over an XBOX One S ?

I think PQ is similar but I haven't heard from any XBOX owners in awhile so don't quote me on that.

If you have something that plays UHD now, it might make more sense to wait for a player that supports Dolby Vision.

Posts edited. No price talk.

I do not have a player now that supports UHD and don't think that I can wait for one that supports dolby vision. I am trying to figure out the best option and both are very close in price give or take $100

Oh. Well if you play XBOX games, that would be worth giving up a minuscule amount of PQ anyway.

Truth be told, it's probably identical. I've got the Samsung, Sony and Panasonic players here right now and with default settings they look identical (Yes I know the Panasonic has lots of PQ adjustments that other players don't, but default looks identical).

Hopefully an XBOX owner will chime in...

If you just want UHD HDR video support go with this player. The user interface for playing videos and streaming videos is way better than with xbox one s. Also some in this thread have complained about the Samsung included remote, but they clearly are not comparing to the clunkiness of using an Xbox remote or game controller.

However, if you want xbox gaming and youtube hdr and skype video calling (with the addition of the kinect) go with the Xbox one s.

I've got 3 UHD TVs and 2 have K8500 attached and the third has an Xbox one s.

I know how that feels, worked on linux tech forums for years. Don't you just love it when you reach out and help folks online and they don't have the common courtesy to thank you?

Thanks @Basshead for being one of the good guys.
And I didn't even download your file, though I may.

Not to mention $3k+ a meter HDMI cables, they'll lift tons of veils from you video PQ

I post my calibration settings, with only one or two thanks.

Changed how I posted, to being an attachment. Now I see how many people read, and possibly use my settings. Good enough for me.
Hopefully, the calibration settings let them get to enjoy the PQ I get on my set as much as I do.
Remember, it's better to give, than receive.

What calibration settings? For your TV or the K8500? If it's the latter, where is that at?

Several Samsung TVs I own. (Listed at bottom of my postings)

I didn't need it either, but like given anyway, for the show of support @basshead81

Anyone seen this problem.

Today, I tried to play Lucy 4K disc, which I have played many times before, and the K8500 player started to load the movie then it gave an error message that it could not read the disc ( a large error message, stating that plus added tips that disc my be dirty, with a confirmation OK appeared in middle of screen.) I took the disc out, wiped it with cotton cloth, and inserted it again. Same error message. I then try another 4k disc, Deedpool. Same thing. I then turned off the player and turned it back on. Both 4K discs work.

I just did the manual download, from someone saved file, of the 1010 firmware update. Not sure if that caused it but this is the first time I have tried any discs since doing the update.

Also, something else I had never done before. I watched a regular,non-4k, blu-ray disc right before trying the 4K Lucy disc. I had never watched a regular disc with back-to-back watching of a 4K disc in same session without the player being turned off. Also, I think I just ejected it versus stopping it first. After getting the 4K discs to working, powering the player off then on, I tried the same regular blu-ray disc. It worked. I then stopped it, then ejected it to test the 4K discs and they both worked.

Anyone seen a problem like this? Related to 1010 firmware (maybe that is why Samsung pulled that update)?

When cleaning discs, spray with glass cleaner, then wipe dry with soft cloth, or toilet tissue, from the inside to the outside. DO NOT dry in circles!

I would think sound through an AVR would be same on all of them, but some reviews are stating that the Sony and Panasonic have better sound than the Samsung player (seems digital would be digital.)

With your Atmos set-up, could you tell a difference in sound between the three in movies?

Definitely not. Digital is digital and the Blu-ray players do not do anything with the signal other than pass it to the receiver for decoding.

other than netflix HDR, what other advantage is there for upgrading to this fw version?

Boasting rights!

It was posted earlier in the thread more than once, so I think the people downloading it from your link will be the very same people who can't even be bothered to do a search on the thread to find the earlier link. A self-selecting sample of selfish readers, I'm afraid so probably explains why they are the sort of person who can't even be bothered to click the mouse over the word "like"

That might depend on how you have your player configured.

If you have yours set to output Bitstream-(Unprocessed) then yes, all the format decoding is done at the AVR and all three players should sound the same.

If you have it set to output PCM over HDMI, then the decoding of the different audio formats is done by the players and all bets are off on how each might sound compared to each other.

Given that Atmos and DTS:X require you you use Bitstream, it's a pretty safe bet that that will be the case.

I was trying to play a regular Blu Ray last night and couldn't get any sound out of HDMI2 that goes to my AVR. I decided to check some other Blu Rays and got the same message as you. I also tried a couple of 4K discs that I've played before and got the message.

I am also on the 1010 firmware.

Anyone else encountering this problem? Is there any way to revert to the previous firmware to test it out?

Thanks for confirming. I tried to reproduce the problem but can not reproduce it now - even using the same movies that caused it yesterday. I even tried to stopping then ejecting the regular blu-ray then immediately trying the 4K movie and also I tried stopping the blu-ray then ejecting it before trying the 4K movie. I also tried different 4K movies. All worked now.

So I am not sure what triggers it. When it happened, I was checking for lip-sync issues (I was testing because on a different forum, some posters stated that the 1010 update caused lip-sync issues), so I was fast forwarding through chapters and scenes looking for dialog scenes. Perhaps that activity trigger it but again, I can not reproduce the problem now, so not way to test.

I did a hard reset on my player. It reverted to firmware 1009 and now everything is working again.