I bought this player for its Netflix and home media video streaming. I have it connected to my 42" standard def plasma TV that I'd been using mostly to watch DVDs and some HD OTA programming I capture on a PC. Before buying the player, playback of that OTA programming was a hassle because it involved attaching my laptop to my TV and fiddling with resolution setting each time I want to watch something. I'd occasionally watch Netflix streaming on my laptop, either connected to that TV or just on my 22" desktop LCD monitor, but had been unimpressed with it (probably because because it's hard for streaming to look good sitting 1.5' away from a 1920x1200 resolution screen which is going to expose every digitization artifact).
I'm really liking the player and its Netflix support. I'd been plowing my way through "Lost" on Netflix rental disks and now I'm watching them streaming at an even faster rate. The picture quality (now 8' away from that plasma TV) is generally excellent, although Netflix will occasionally drop the resolution down from (what they call) "HD" to something noticeably worse. I have a Verizon FiOS connection, so it's unlikely that the bandwidth limitation is at my end, but who knows how many places between my house and the Netflix servers might be getting bogged down. (Welcome to the cloud.) At the lower bandwidth, pretty serious digitization artifacts show up in fast-moving scenes. This is almost certainly due to the limitations of the data, not the player itself. It'd be nice if there were some sort of button that allowed me to say "Hey, maybe that bandwidth problem was transient; please try to go to HD again".
I didn't know this before I bought the player, but wasn't surprised to find out that it also can play back audio files off my PC, which is convenient. If it also had support for Pandora and Internet streaming (I listen to various actual radio stations via Shoutcast and work and in another room at home using the Logitech Squeezebox Boom), I'd be really happy. Maybe eventually it will. Hulu support would be great too, but I haven't heard of any devices that do that yet.
I haven't actually put a Bluray disk in the player yet and don't expect I will for some time (no point really, since it's connected to an SD TV). It plays regular DVDs fine though.
The one serious gripe I have with the player is that when playing back video files from my PC, there's no fast-forward capability. This means I must run a time-consuming commercial scan and remove package over my recorded video files before watching them.Get more detail about LG BD 390 Network Blu-ray Disc Player.
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