Review 1 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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Great Player
02/08/2010
By Bulb
from Ann Arbor, Michigan
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What's great about it: Blue-Ray, Functions, Wireless Network, Netflix, Lots of Functionality
What's not so great: Some of The Owner Manual Setup Directions Were Difficult to Understand. The Remote and Disc Tray Appear Cheap
"I read hundreds of reviews and settled on the LG BD390. I purchased the player Feb 1, 2010. The player was not cheap but it was on sale and the sales person gave me a discount on the Monster HDMI cable that I need to complete the Player to TV hook-up.. I also purchased a two year extended warrenty. I linked the BD390 via HDMI cable to my Panasonic HD TV and wirelessly to my Linksys WRT150N, 2.4 GHz Wireless-N router. My internet provider service met all the requirements as called for in the LG Player manual, as did my wireless N-router.
I am not an electrical IT person and I did not understand much of the terminology in the set-up manual. So, I read the owners manual several times to make sure I was clear on the set-up instructions and had collected all the input data it said I would need to complete a wireless internet connection. Gathering that information was not easy for me either but, I did learn it was all located in the system icons in my computer's contol panel.
First, I set up the player and tried several disc's, all worked well. My router is located on the second floor of my home and the Player and TV are on the first floor. I was concerned about the distance between the two because many of the reviews I had read indicated the Player needed to be near the router. I then went through the wireless network connection process several times. On the third try the system indicated I had successfully connected. I have no idea why it took three tries but, it was helpful that I had read the directions several times and had the input data handy to input when requested.
I have a Netflix account so I followed the player's owner manual instructions to activate Netflix wirelessly. It took me a few minutes to make the activation because I am new to Netflix and not versed in the setting up of an instant que. Once set-up, I was viewing a Netflix streaming movie in a matter of a few minutes. Movie down load time was very fast, just a few seconds.
The total process from Player set-up to viewing disc and Netflix took me about an hour. I think the key to my set-up success was reading the directions several times and having the set-up input information at hand. Overall, the Player set-up instructions need more clarity for easier understanding, The disc play is easy and the picture quality was great, streaming Netflix movies works well and the picture quality is maybe an 8 out of 10, the sound quality is average but, I am still using the TV speakers. Oh ya, the disc tray and the remote are of low quality but they function! I still need to add a sound system and learn more about the available functions. So far I am happy with my purchase."
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 2 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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Excellent Blu-ray player
02/03/2010
By BDTrooper
from South Orange, NJ
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What's great about it: Fast-loading, high-quality player at a good price
"After a lot of research, I settled on this player for my 1st foray into the world of HD video. This is an excellent Blu-ray player. The picture is amazing. On my Yellowstone: Battle for Life disc, you can see the snow glisten and every hair on a fox as it searches for prey. Of course, you should be getting a great picture w/ Blu-ray. But w/ this player, the disc loads quickly, and the remote is easy to use. Definately recommended."
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 3 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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Great BluRay player
02/02/2010
By glennman
from California
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What's great about it: Very easy to set up and the price was right
What's not so great: remote must be pointed directly at unit to work
"Wireless set up was a breeze. So far I have no complaints. It plays all my regular DVD's with great picture quality. I'm just now starting to experiment with BluRays. I bought it mainly for the wireless NetFlix capability which has been great so far. We have had to shut down the laptop to get a signal which is no big deal to me."
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 4 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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Awesome player - best in class
01/31/2010
By jduffey79
from Dubuque, IA
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What's great about it: Excellent picture quality and the ability to stream audo and video from my server
What's not so great: Does not have a time/text button. Would love to have the ability to see how much time is lert on on the movie
"This player is the best of the best. I did my research befoe I made my purchase the could not find any bad information. The only thing that I was upset about is that a few days a I purhcased this blu-ray player, I found out that LG is comijng out with the BD590 to replace this. After much research (cnet.com) you'll find that there is no difference between the players except that the BD590 will have a 250GB HDD. I have not been able to find the initial price, but all I can say is that who needs another dirve to back up and since the player connects wirelessly to your network for all the photos and music that you would store on the player, It really is pointless."
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 5 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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Great Blue Ray Player!
01/29/2010
By Spark0matc
from Severna park, MD
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"Great picture. Fast loading. Great Blue Ray Player!"
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 6 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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Wireless Networked DVD
01/28/2010
By Daniel14903
from Upstate, NY
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What's great about it: Wireless setup was very easy
What's not so great: Nothing Really
"Setup was easy. Love NETFLIX online movies(with subcription).
Also being able to acess photo, movie and music files on my laptop."
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 7 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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WOW
01/27/2010
By edseis1
from Westmoreland, NY
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What's great about it: EASY SET-UP. OUTSTANDING FEATURES
What's not so great: NOTHING
"MY WIFE AND I LOVE BEING ABLE TO WATCH STREAMING VIDEO FROM NETFLIX. BLURAY OUTPUT IS EXCELLENT. UPSCALING WORKS FAR BETTER THAN OLDER UPSCALING DVD PLAYER THAT THIS ONE REPLACED. PER MFG RECOMMENDATION I HOOKED IT UP HARDWIRED TO MY NETWORK. ALMOST EFFORTLESS SET-UP."
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 8 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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ONE OF THE BEST BLURAY PLAYERS!!!!!
01/25/2010
By nesterpr
from Las Piedras, PR
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What's great about it: ULTRA FAST LOADING, PERFECT 1080P PICTURE AND PERFORMANCE.
What's not so great: PRICE, WIFI PERFORMANCE NOT SO GREAT.
"WENT I BOUGHT THIS PLAYER, I HAD THE PANASONIC BD-30. THE PANASONICS ARE THE BEST PLAYERS WE CAN HAVE. THE ONLY BAD THING ABOUT THE LG IS THE PRICE, YOU CAN HAVE A PS3 FOR LESS OR SAME PRICE. PERFORMANCE AND ULTRA FAST LOADING ARE THE SIGNATURE FOR THIS PLAYER, NO PROBLEMS WITH BLURAY AS TODAY."
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 9 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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Awesome unit
01/23/2010
By Burlite
from Brandon,WI
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What's great about it: Unit works great . Set up was easy and execution of menus were flawless.
What's not so great: None
"Would recommend this unit. Nothing real technical to talk about.....it just works. Just became aware of another LG network Blue-Ray player with a hard drive for storing downloaded movies. That will be next for my systems."
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 10 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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Great Blue Ray Player
01/22/2010
By Tenspeed
from SC
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What's great about it: Wireless, BD Live, Auto updates
What's not so great: Picture through component output good but not perfect. HDMI is only way to go.
"Great DVD player. I have set up two of these, one on a 720P TV and the other on a 1080P TV. 1080P picture is phenomenal. Set one up wired and the other wireless. Both are easy. I would recommend this to anyone if price is not a deciding factor."
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 11 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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Great Player
01/20/2010
By abqgam
from abq, NM
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What's great about it: Great picture, Blu-Ray disks load quickly, upscaling very good. Media steaming great plus
What's not so great: Little bit of a learning curve involved, espcially with media server set up.
"This is a great player, it was a little confusing setting it up at first, primarily because I had never used media streaming before but i found that the Nero 4 Essentials Media server was easy to understand and set up and after the short learning curve and setting up network connections I was viewing movies from Netflix, steaming video and music from my PC to my TV through this player.
What about the Blu-Ray? Great picture and this player loads Blu-Ray disks much faster than most players. I found that picture quality for Blu-Rays and DVD's (upscaled) was very good.
I do wish this player had Pandora and Hulu available, maybe in future firmware releases as Pandora is available on some other LG products.
Overall I am very happy with my purchase."
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 12 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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Are you Kidding!?!!! This player is AWESOME
01/19/2010
By Ben35
from San Antonio, TX
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What's great about it: Picture Quality, Wireless, Netflix compatibility, You tube
What's not so great: Not much
"Are you kidding...this was probably the best purchase I've made thus far. I had been reading about this unit and waiting since last spring for it to come out (because of the wireless capabilities.) If you recall they were a little pricey at first so I waited for the price to drop. I hooked it up in about 10 minutes!!!!! Very easy, the most difficult part was taking my TV off of the mount to connect the HDMI cable to the back (that's a two person job.) It connected to my router effortlessly and I was in business. I signed up for Netflix and was watching HD movies in no time. My wife was a little leery at first about this buy, but she loves the Netflix and Youtube options. We're now able to catch up with all those TV series that we missed going back to season 1. The only drawback, and it's petty, is that when the unit is off and you go back to eject a movie the unit automatically switches your TV to Blue ray mode so you have to switch your TV input back to the cable to watch TV. The good thing is when you pop in your movie the TV automatically switches your input over without touching any buttons."
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 13 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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BEST BLU-RAY EVER
01/19/2010
By PONYBOY52
from CHANDLER , AZ
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What's great about it: EVERYTHING
What's not so great: NO FAULTS
"EASY SET-UP WITH OTHER LG EQUIPTMENT NCE AND SLEEK GOOD QUALITY PICTURE"
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 14 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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GOOD PLAYER
01/18/2010
By tbhmech
from Pa
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What's great about it: GOOD PICTURE
What's not so great: NOT ABLE TO WORK ON THE 5.0GHZ DUAL BAN ROUTER LOUSTY TECH SUPPORT@ LG
"THE PLAYER ITSELF IS AWESOME, PICTURE QUALITY AWESOME EASY TO SETUP ON HOME NETWORK , BUT I WAS NOT ABLE TO SEE THE HIGH BAND ON MY DUAL ROUTER , CALLED LG THEY SAID IT IS CAPABLE HAD TO BE A ROUTER ISSUE , WELL THATS NOT THE CASE AS MY LAPTOPS SEE THE 2ND NETWORK CALLED LG BACK 2 MORE TIMES ONE PERSON SAID IT IS CAPABLE OF WORKING ON HIGH BAND ANOTHER SAID ITS NOT ,IM BELEIVING ITS NOT ,THE ONLY BAD THING I WILL SAY ABOUT THIS PLAYER"
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 15 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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love it
01/18/2010
By LeslieS
from San Diego,CA
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What's great about it: easy to use
"Easy to use,and easy set up for Netflicks. Great picture"
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 16 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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Two for Two.... No Wireless Internet Access
01/18/2010
By AMPS
from Oklahoma
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What's great about it: Price was good, extra software
What's not so great: Wireless Internet (Netflix, Pandora, etc.) - would not work on two sets we tried
"Bought one - the wireless Internet card picked up sporadically but not enough to be useful (even though Apple TV and Wii have no problems). Returned for another, that one would not even load, We called tech support and they said to return it to Best Buy. We did and bought a Samsung which worked perfectly on the first try."
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
No
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Review 17 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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This thing rocks!!
01/18/2010
By msacks
from VA
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What's great about it: Easy to setup, and use.
What's not so great: Price could be better, in time these will sell for under $100.00
"Does everything it says, super simple to connect to my wireless network, was able to setup a media server on my PC and play iTunes, Videos, and even pictures from my Flickr account. The fact that is supports both Vudu, Netflix, and CinemaNow right out of the box rocks!"
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 18 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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Love my LG BD390!
01/18/2010
By Crickie2012
from Missouri
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What's great about it: I set this up in 5 minutes and was watching streaming movies--never opened the manual!
What's not so great: So far, it's perfect.
"The LG BD390 is as good as everyone says! All I had to do was pull my old DVD player out of my entertainment center, unplug the orange coax cable and the composite video cable, hook everything (including an HDMI cable) back up to the LG and I was all set! It was easy to set up a wireless network connection to my router, and I was watching movies within minutes. The picture quality is fantastic, and it is as intuitive as a piece of electronic equipment could be."
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 19 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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Awesome Blu ray player
01/18/2010
By sam1859
from chicago
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What's great about it: Everything its so easy to set up
What's not so great: Too pricey
"Awesome player I had a samsung and it was garbage. I returned it and got the LG what a difference. Well worth the money. I strongly recommend this player. It has everything you need and then some."
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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Review 20 for LG Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output
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Really satisfied so far
01/17/2010
By MarshallBR
from Brazil
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What's great about it: Great quality, several interesting features
"Very satisfied so far. I haven't had time to explore some features like connecting it to a network, but the ability to read external drives formatted with NTFS is very important when you have big video files.
The interface is very nice and the player support a variety of video formats (and I'm glad it supports the format used by my digital camera - MP4).
Great purchase."
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Would you recommend this product to a friend?:
Yes
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