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I read the reviews here on Amazon.com and also the ones on [...]. Decided to buy and hope for the best -- you can never tell if someone else's problem will affect you or not.

We have an Apple Airport Extreme; 2007 Macbook; several external firewire and USB hard drives; hard drives hooked up to the airport network. The TV and DVD player are about 60 feet away down a hallway.

(We have some software on the Mac from a 2 year old Elegato EyeTV device that may or may not have had some impact on connectivity with the LG--the LG shows an "EYE TV" server as one of the servers. Don't know if this is why the LG read so easily from the Mac--or if we were just lucky--or if the LG is really this adaptable. We had forgotten the Eye TV software was even on the computer.)

The DVD was an open box from Best Buy that had already had the LG firmware update installed. The DVD player hooked up with no problem. Following the instructions in the manual, it immediately saw our home wireless network. It saw our FAT drives and Mac Journaled drives -- and read from them. It did not read the drives hooked up to the Airport Extreme. I'll talk about the streaming from these drives a bit later.

The Netflix connection was amazingly easy. Write down the code to the DVD player; go to the computer and to our Netflix account; enter the code into our Netflix account -- it worked! Streaming was smooth; jumping forward means waiting a bit for the buffer to catch up -- as might be expected. It's not HD but it's decent video quality. This is the main reason we bought this device and it works fine for Netflix.

The YouTube connection also works fine; it's easier to work from a YouTube account with saved favorites. Quality is grainy, of course--it is what it is.

The USB connection does fine with a WD passport drive. Reads .VOB files, but no speed scan; it is able to jump to the next .VOB file. Reads .MP4 file, but no speed scan or jump forward. Does not read .MOV or the type of .AVI file put out by a Canon Powershot SD 850. Reads DivX files.

Streaming from our drives across our home wireless network was too slow for our home movies or movies we have stored -- they stuttered. The LG manual says that for this to work OK, you'll need to hook up an ethernet cable.

JPEG photos were seen ok on the USB drive and on the home wireless network. Music was accessed ok, too.

All in all, we're really happy with the LG Blu-Ray DVD player. Great for streamed Netflix, good video quality on the DVD player.
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