Cheap LG BD 390 Network Blu-ray Disc Player

I am really happy with the LG BD390. I was originally using a PS3 as my blu ray player but felt it was lacking audio quality with regular audio CDs, the fan was too loud during normal playback, and the picture would stutter intermittently when trying to process action scenes in a movie. Not a lot of reasons to go out purchase a standalone player, but I'm glad I did.

I paired the unit with my wireless network, updated the BD390, activated my netflix account, and tweaked some of the settings in about 20-25 minutes. Setup was extremely smooth. I am very happy with how well the picture looks when streaming Netflix movies. I was originally using the PS3 to stream Netflix through an application called "Playon" and by far the BD390 processes instant movies much better.

When setting up the audio, if you choose "Primary Pass through" for both SPDIF and HDMI settings, the player will take the surround sound format and send it directly to your receiver. I decided to use the HDMI cable versus the fiber optics cable for the audio output for the following reason.

When you use a fiber optic cable connected to the "Digital audio out" you lose a lot of the available surround sound formats. For example, if you use "Digital audio out" and a bluray is recorded in Dolby TruHD, it will be outputted as just Dolby Digital. Now if you use the HDMI cable plugged into the "HDMI out" and a bluray is recorded in Dolby TruHD, it will be outputted as Dolby TruHD. The player will only send the Dolby TruHD and Dolby Plus formats through HDMI.

I have read some reviews where there was some confusion that the LB BD370 should be the same as the BD390 in picture quality. This is not true based on the Digital/Analog Conversion of the players.

The LG BD370 has 108MHz/10bit in Video and 192 kHz / 24 bit for audio.
The LG BD390 has 148MHz/12bit in Video and 192 kHz / 24 bit for audio.

For half the price, the LGBD390 actually has the same conversion as the high end OPPO BD83 which is also 148MHz/12-bit in video and 192 kHz / 24 bits for audio. Overall I am very pleased with the features of the LG BD390.Get more detail about LG BD 390 Network Blu-ray Disc Player.