What 4K player to buy

[ionut_anghel]

Hi guys.
I have recently started making my own 25GB / 50 GB / 100GB Blu Rays.
Started putting a couple of 4K movies on triple layer Blu Rays.
I can open them just fine on my PC with MakeMKV and also with VLC.
Problem is that my Xbox does not read them at all.
I read that Xbox will struggle with triple layered Blu Ray (although it can perfectly run any 4K movie off the market) so I decided to buy a dedicated 4K player.
Went out and bought Panasonic UB154EB - the cheapest one.
Now this one can read about half the 4K I made myself, which is a bit disappointing.
I am currently using Ritek 100GB discs, and the ID on them says VERBAT-IMf-000 (so I guess good quality ?)
Can you guys recommend a good 4K player that will read anything I through at it ?
Is Panasonic UB820 the one ?

[MartyMcNuts]

Hi guys.
I have recently started making my own 25GB / 50 GB / 100GB Blu Rays.
Started putting a couple of 4K movies on triple layer Blu Rays.
I can open them just fine on my PC with MakeMKV and also with VLC.
Problem is that my Xbox does not read them at all.
I read that Xbox will struggle with triple layered Blu Ray (although it can perfectly run any 4K movie off the market) so I decided to buy a dedicated 4K player.
Went out and bought Panasonic UB154EB - the cheapest one.
Now this one can read about half the 4K I made myself, which is a bit disappointing.
I am currently using Ritek 100GB discs, and the ID on them says VERBAT-IMf-000 (so I guess good quality ?)
Can you guys recommend a good 4K player that will read anything I through at it ?
Is Panasonic UB820 the one ?

Yeah, no. Pretty much all players, except maybe the oppo clone? will not read burnt triple layer discs either at all or not very well. They are different to official pressed UHD discs. Writing to optical media is soooooo 2007!! Far cheaper and better to store movies on a hard drive or NAS.

[ionut_anghel]

I little bit of an update:
Trying to watch "The Revenant" in 4K, disc which I made, on my UB-154.
Basically I have to cycle open/close tray about 5 times to get it to work.
I get the "disc is incompatible" error (which seems to be quite common on Panasonic), and after the cycles boom, it just works.