First, the good part. The Netflix support is great. It's really nice to not have to hook up an extra box to watch Netflix movies. Also, the network support is top-notch. I have a MediaTomb server on my network and this box always found it _and_ refreshed the content on every connect, unlike the PS3 which seems to cache what it thinks is on there for weeks at a time, making it impossible to get at new content.
The bad, however, doesn't make up for the good. First, the 802.11n support is terrible. There's no 5 gHz support. On my network, 802.11N at 2.4 gHz is about 50% faster than plain-old 802.11g. Nice, I suppose, but you're not going to use that to stream HD content. As far as I'm concerned, if you don't support 5gHz, you don't support 802.11n.
The other issue is sound. For some reason it was behind the video on my system. I have HDMI going into my TV, and then optical audio coming out of that into my receiver and I've never had this problem before with my PS3, AppleTV, or cable box (which are each set up exactly the same way).
Finally, it doesn't work well with a Harmony remote. From what I can tell, there aren't separate ON and OFF commands, just one ON/OFF. So, walk up to your system that's all off, pop a disc into the player (which turns it on), press an activity on your remote, and everything will turn on while your BluRay player shuts itself off. It can be annoying. Plus, you need to do a lot of custom button setup to get it working properly. That's is Logitech's problem, but it's still a pain to deal with.Get more detail about LG BD 390 Network Blu-ray Disc Player.
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