Rare discount alert! My favorite Panasonic 4K Blu-ray player has dropped in price for Prime Day

No, your eyes do not deceive you: the Panasonic DP-UB820 4K Blu-ray player is down to £285 (was £349) at Amazon. This isn’t the lowest price it’s ever been (it hit £249 before), but it is the cheapest it’s been in years.

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Amazon Prime Day ends at midnight tonight, so you only have a few hours left to capitalise on its deals. This Panasonic UB820 offer may be one of the best I’ve seen. A 19% discount may not seem like much, but when discounts on the best 4K Blu-ray player on the market are this rare, you take every one you can get!

The Panasonic DP-UB820 earned five stars in my review because it’s quite simply the best bang for your buck 4K Blu-ray player on the market. It has a full range of features including both Dolby Vision and HDR10+ support (a rarity at this price point), built-in Wi-Fi and hi-res audio capabilities. Its picture reproduction is superb, with excellent upscaling and plenty of picture settings for SDR discs to give them an uplift.

My own story with the UB820 goes back to before I joined TechRadar. In my previous job in AV retail, the UB820 was the player of choice to run discs all day, displayed to 20 TVs at once, and in the near three years I was there, it kept on going.

Now as TechRadar’s TV tester, it’s the player I use when reviewing the best TVs. The UB820 is a workhorse plain and simple, delivering consistent performance while delivering excellent picture reproduction and near-full disc playback (SACD fans will need to look elsewhere unfortunately).

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