A significant step up from theo- bd300, my favorite blu ray on theo- market right now.
Of the new mannequin year ‘2009′ blu ray players, we own the lg bd370, samsung bd-p1600, and a ps3. By far, the bd370 is the nicest as blu ray content. Loading is fast and the drive is completely silent (this is not the couple on the bd-p1600 by samsung). Piano black finish on the face is plastic, and looks goodness. We have found that it does not scratch easily too! The rely of the couple is black-ish metal and sturdy.
One of the great things about the lg bd370 is you can customize the look of the interface on your tv. There are 4 themes and all are in high-definition. The remote on the bd370 changed from the bd300, and i perceive it was a step down. It’s got a faux-leather finish on it – why? No idea. The one improvement is buttons that don’t get used much are hidden after a panel on the remote.
Netflix ‘watch instantly’ is very cool and the organization is literally 30-40 seconds if you already have an account. Just after we got ours, lg bd370 blu ray player alerted us that a firmware update was available! It added cinemanow – we hadn’t used cinemanow before, but a quick registration on their site and connecting was just as easy as netflix. Rented a couple movies to try it out – very cool. Youtube is also usable on the player and it’s awesome. I’d easily compare it with an appletv, though believe it or not, the bd370 is a bit faster at searching and playing youtube videos – it also does them in full screen, no problem.
One odd thing we’ve noticed… with netflix and cinemanow and youtube we have only watched 3 or 4 movies on blu ray. So much other content usable that this player is really a steal – it’s a fantastic blu ray player (audio and video as goodness as you think it would be), but wow is it awesome to have a player that does so much other stuff.
No wireless on this player, nor does it have built-in memory as using bd-live. Neither of these items should be cause as concern – i haven’t seen a bd-live feature yet that has been worth while… All the goodness stuff is usually already on the blu ray disk itself.
The thing that makes it just a bit better than our samsung bd-p1600 is the front display. The circular button assembly on the front glows a soft blue when playing blu ray, soft red when playing dvd, and purple on certain netflix, youtube, and cinemanow video. The main display is also helpful, showing ‘netflx’, etc and most importantly, you can see the display (the samsung player’s display is so dim you wouldn’t believe it).
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