Of the new example year ‘2009′ blu ray players, we own the lg bd370, samsung bd-p1600, and a ps3. By far, the bd370 is the nicest for blu ray content. Loading is fast and the drive is completely silent (this is not the pair upon the bd-p1600 by samsung). Piano black finish upon the face is plastic, and looks goodness. We have found that it does not scratch easily too! The halt of the pair is black-ish metal and sturdy.
One of the bravo things about the lg bd370 is you can customize the look of the interface upon your tv. There are 4 themes and all are inner high-definition. The remote upon the bd370 changed from the bd300, and i feel it was a step down. It’s got a faux-leather finish upon it – why? No idea. The one improvement is buttons that don’t get used greatly are hidden behind a panel upon the remote.
Netflix ‘watch instantly’ is very cool and the arrangement is literally 30-40 seconds if you already have an account. Just after we got ours, lg bd370 alerted us that a firmware update was available! It added cinemanow – we hadn’t used cinemanow before, but a quick registration upon their site and connecting was just as easy as netflix. Rented a couple movies to try it out – very cool. Youtube is also available upon the player and it’s awesome. I’d easily compare it withy an appletv, though believe it or not, the bd370 is a bit faster at speculative and playing youtube videos – it also does them inner full screen, no problem.
One odd thing we’ve noticed… withy netflix and cinemanow and youtube we have only watched 3 or 4 movies upon blu ray. So greatly other content available that this player is really a steal – it’s a fantastic blu ray player (audio and video as goodness as you assume it would be), but wow is it awesome to have a player that does so greatly other stuff.
No wireless upon this player, nor does it have built-in memory for using bd-live. Neither of these items should be cause for concern – i haven’t seen a bd-live feature yet that has been worth while… All the goodness stuff is usually already upon the blu ray disk itself.
The thing that makes it just a bit better than our samsung bd-p1600 is the front display. The circular button assembly upon the front glows a soft blue when playing blu ray, soft red when playing dvd, and purple upon certain netflix, youtube, and cinemanow video. The main display is also helpful, showing ‘netflx’, etc and most importantly, you can see the display (the samsung player’s display is so dim you wouldn’t believe it).
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