Kodi is one of the most robust digital media players available. * AndroidTV OS allows installing a variety of different media players, best of the bunch would be Kodi or offshoots like MrMC.

* USB ports for playback, wifi network streaming etc * it supports 4K media codecs (H.264, H.265/HEVC and VP9 profile 1 & 2 for Youtube HDR) Maybe the industry over the coming years will get around to making some kind of 4K AVCHD disc format but it doesn't look like it exists at the moment.ĭigital file playback is definitely one of Panasonic's weak points they have some of the poorest digital media playback systems at least from my experience.įor 4K digital media playback I would recommend the Nvidia Shield, You could make the video in 4K can burn it to existing Blu-ray discs for piece of mind but it will only play as a digital video file (MP4/MKV) not in a menu/structure in most 4K devices with disc drives I would guess. It would be safer to upload to Youtube these days as private video if you want to safeguard it and that will be turned into VP9 video no matter what. On top of that what constitutes 4K, certainly not just a disc standard, you can make H.264, H.265/HEVC and VP9 videos in 4K not to mention AV1 in the works designed to replace all of those over the next decade. It doesn't look like this been upgraded to some kind of 4K standard and even if it were what would play it other than a handful of 4K Blu-ray disc players which are a niche item these days as only high end AV people are buying these any more (average people are not). The home movie format for discs such as it was used AVCHD which allowed burning to BD with menus and I believe some reverse engineered Blu-ray menus to make their own too. Burned discs have a shelf life the chemicals in them will degrade over time so they are only going to last so long.

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