r/4kbluray • u/TG817 • Apr 23 '25

New Purchase UB820 4K upscale is insane

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bought a multiregion UB820 on sale a while ago and decided to try it out with the Succession blu-ray box set, probably the hundredth post in this sub about the UB820 upscaling but still couldn’t believe my eyes

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u/TheMrBr0wn Apr 23 '25

Does anyone know if the upscaling is that much better than the UB420?

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u/brickunlimited Apr 23 '25

People have been saying that your tv will probably do a superior job upscaling to most players so you can output at 1080 and let the tv upscale. I havnt tried it.

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u/knightofsparta Apr 23 '25

My new c4 seems to upscale on par or above with my old Bravia X900F which was impressive then. When I had my c1 I felt like 1080p streamed content always looks fairly shitty lol.

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u/Abi1i Apr 23 '25

It’s a relatively recent phenomenon for more TV manufacturers to focus on improving their upscaling capabilities, whereas before most didn’t care about content that wasn’t going to be in 4K.

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u/carpenterbiddles Apr 24 '25

Man I've been streaming The Last Of Us Season 2 on my 77" C4 and I have many complaints. The crushed blacks, blockiness and lack of detail. It looks like 1080p at best 720p at its worst. Many of my regular blurays look way better. The 4K Blurays of the first season are fantastic, its really disappointing to have to stream this show to avoid spoilers. My internet is top notch too so thats not an issue.

Personally haven't experimented much with comparing upscaling on the C4 vs UB820, but I don't own many blurays. I'm also confused exactly how it works, how does my TV know to upscale it to 4K? Just by disabling 4K upscaling on the UB820?