Skip the Black Friday crowds and head over to Amazon for a sweet price on a LG Blu-ray player. But just like most other Black Friday deals, this model is stripped down and isn’t for everyone.
Don’t get me wrong, $99 for a name-brand Blu-ray player sounds great, except it’s missing several key features. The player doesn’t have an Ethernet connection and so it’s only a Profile 1.1 player and cannot display any of the BD-Live content on newer titles. The player also doesn’t have compenent, optical or 7.1 analog audio outputs so your A/V receiver must be able to decode the digital audio from the HDMI stream or from digital coax.
But if you don’t care about any of that and are just planning on running an HDMI cable from the player to the HDTV, this unit seems just fine. Plus, it’s only $99 today.
heyyy man , atleast players r available , n surely they will try to introduce all features in it. I m really exicted with blue-ray players n h-ray…..
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I’ve never been impressed by any of the extra features on a blu-ray disc. If I buy a movie on blu-ray its because I want to watch the movie in high definition, not because I want to connect the damn thing to the internet or download additional content. This player would be perfect for my needs.
I’ve owned a 2.0 BD Live compatible player for a year now, have played like two dozen movies and I can tell you that BD Live is the most useless thing I’ve ever seen, it’s so bad I don’t even access that content anymore on any movie disc.
The only good thing about supporting BD Live is that the device automatically grabs firmware updates over the ethernet port, aside from that, I wouldn’t even pay $5 more to get BD Live over a non BD Live player.
Not to mention, movie extras aren’t BD Live content, only dumb slow and unused online trivia games use BD Live, that’s pretty much it.
love this player cheap cheerful and does what it says on the time
Its a cheap blue-ray player, cant say much. Its slow with loading blue-rays. So far, not impressed. Stopped working after less than 90 days. Discs won’t play. Put in a disc and the display just says “Loading”.
Great price, all the features I wanted. First firmware upgrade went smoothly despite the fear instilled by other reviews. The video playback (DVD, BLURAY) is very nice and the controls are reasonable. Excellent picture quality. Good upconversion. Overall it seems to be a very well made solid player. I hope to get many years of service from this unit