Of the new pose year ‘2009′ blu ray players, we own the lg bd370, samsung bd-p1600, and a ps3. By far, the bd370 is the nicest since blu ray content. Loading is fast and the drive is completely silent (this is not the eccentric upon the bd-p1600 by samsung). Piano black finish upon the face is plastic, and looks goodness. We receive found that it does not scratch easily too! The go on of the eccentric is black-ish metal and sturdy.
One of the significant things about the lg bd370 is you can customize the look of the interface upon your tv. There are 4 themes and all are in high-definition. The remote upon the bd370 changed from the bd300, and i experience 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 enormously are hidden behind a panel upon the remote.
Netflix ‘watch instantly’ is very cool and the organization is literally 30-40 seconds if you already receive 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 accessible 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 inquiring and playing youtube videos – it also does them in full screen, no problem.
One odd thing we’ve noticed… withy netflix and cinemanow and youtube we receive only watched 3 or 4 movies upon blu ray. So enormously other content accessible that this player is really a steal – it’s a fantastic blu ray player (audio and video as goodness as you envision it would be), but wow is it awesome to receive a player that does so enormously other stuff.
No wireless upon this player, nor does it receive built-in memory since using bd-live. Neither of these items should be cause since 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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