Low Price LG BD 390 Network Blu-ray Disc Player

Bought an LG 55" LED TV.

Had a very good Sony "upconverting" DVD player.

Had absolutely no plans to buy Blu-Ray.

HOWEVER, PBS broadcast the truly exceptional full screen HD version of the Walt Disney Concert Hall LA Philharmonic, and the next day I was ordering this Blu-Ray player from Amazon.

(Link to story about LA Philharmonic concert! [...])

I've no real comparison to other Blu-Ray players. This one had excellent top reviews, and CAN share a controller with the new TV.

I have seen some "artifacting." That might be from the Blu-Ray compression, or the player, or the TV. Who knows? Only the most exasperating critic would object. Blu-Ray movies play with exceptional clarity. I think it is POSSIBLE that the up-conversion of standard DVDs may be better than the 18 month old Sony I gave to daughter, but, boy, that would be hard to say with certainty without some kind of video tests. If you have a library of standard DVDs, this player will do very well by them as it upconverts to 1080p.

My only disappointment is the wireless streaming. The player is Wireless N. My household is Mac, Apple Airport Extreme. I have an AppleTV which works very, very well on Wireless N set at the 5ghz feed.

The LG player will not run at 5ghz. So I had to set the Airport Extreme (temporarily) at 2.4ghz. Then I had to take down the password to mate the wireless signal to the LG player. When I did that, they found each other, and the result was inadequate.

I tried streaming a NetFlix instant movie over the 2.4ghz Wireless, and it looked like really, really bad YouTube, and the Player gave me a message that I had a really slow internet connection.

Maybe really slow for Korea, but I have the fastest cable internet (25 Mbps) our local provider offers. So the message about "slow" was really about the 2.4 ghz Wireless.

Started over with an ethernet cable dragged to the Blu-Ray Player, with much, much better results.

I'm happy with this player, and think it should definitely be on your "short list."Get more detail about LG BD 390 Network Blu-ray Disc Player.