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

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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!

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Panasonic  DP-UB820 4K Blu-ray player
Panasonic DP-UB820 4K Blu-ray player : was £349 now £285 at Amazon

It's happened: the Panasonic DP-UB820 has had a discount! This 19% saving takes the UB820 down to £285 for Prime Day, the cheapest its been for a long time. The UB820 has nearly all the features you could want in a 4K player, including Dolby Vision and HDR10+ support, plus its picture reproduction is superb. If you want the best value 4K Blu-ray player around, this is it.

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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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James Davidson
TV Hardware Staff Writer, Home Entertainment

 James is the TV Hardware Staff Writer at TechRadar. Before joining the team, he worked at a major UK based AV retailer selling TV and audio equipment, where he was either telling customers the difference between OLED and QLED or being wowed by watching a PS5 run on the LG 65G2. When not writing about the latest TV tech, James can be found gaming, reading, watching rugby or coming up with another idea for a novel. 

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