For a while now I had been considering replacing the Cambridge Audio azur 752BD with a machine that would play 4K Blu-Ray discs as well, but decided that I would keep the 752BD and buy a 4K Blu-Ray player. As the player would only need to play 4K discs its Hi-Fi credentials were not a consideration.

I settled on the Panasonic DP-UB820, its shiny fingerprint magnet finish aside, it does its job of playing 4K Blu-Rays well.

With its two HDMI outputs, video to the TV and audio to the Cambridge CXR200, it was soon integrated into the system.

Apparently the DP-UB820 can be voice controlled, the whole process of setting this up can only be described as Byzantine, decided life was too short and gave up on it.

Also tried its DLNA capability and found even with a wired connection to the LAN, it was very unreliable in use.

To sum up, as a 4K Blu-Ray player, excellent, everything else various levels of meh…