LG BD570 BD Blu-ray Player with Media Centre featuring Wi-Fi & DLNA
Posted by Notcot on Sep 13, 2010 in Home Cinema & Video |
- Audio: Digital Plus/Dts HD/Dolby True HD
- Playback Formats: BD-ROM (Movie) / BD-RE / BD-R / DVD-ROM / DVD-R/RW / DVD+R/RW
- 1080/24p Playback: Yes
- Component Output: Yes
- Bd Live
LG BD570 BD Blu-ray Player with Media Centre featuring Wi-Fi & DLNA
This player have very nice features and image quality. The front end have a nice layout.
Audio and DVD works ok. Good upscaling for Full HD tv. Automatic CD play.
Blue Ray is ok, good startup speed and with all the functionality (BD Live also).
Wifi already in the unit (54g) with easy setup for all the security keys.
Ethernet also possible.
System updates software and firmware (already 2 times in 2 weeks) via wifi.
Best features are the Youtube, Picasa and Weather.
Specially the Youtube application is wonderfull. With 54g wifi you can watch all movies in the couch. Good interface, easy search system. Video information and quick change for full screen (good image for 480p movies).
The player have an USB port for External disk or pen. You can see Video, Photo or Audio.
Lots of formats accepted. Subtitles work. Can replace HD Media player easly.
I’m very happy with the unit.
Rating: 5 / 5
I wanted an all-in-one box for blu-ray, DVD, DIVX, streaming video and VOD. This does most of these things well.
VOD is the worst aspect, as LG’s Netcast service in the UK only offers YouTube. They say more services are coming, so hopefully iPlayer, itvPlayer, 4oD etc will be added soon.
BluRay quality is excellent, and loading times are fast (well under a minute). DVD playback is superb. The upscaling is remarkable, and some films look as good as BluRay to my eyes. It struggles a bit with grain and inconsistent lighting on older films – for example, Roberto Rossellini’s Paisan appeared to have what I can only describe as ‘moving light’. This wasn’t enough to spoil the experience for me though.
So far it has played all the .avi files I mave played on it, and only a couple of badly encoded ones have caused an issue with frame rate. It plays back both .srt and .sub subtitles, and allows you to choose them which is an advantage over my previous machine. It has worked fine for me whether using DVDR, HDD or USB drive. It also shows full file names, which is a huge bonus over any other DIVX player I have used.
DLNA playback is hassle-free from a windows network share. I found using the enclosed Nero software very laggy, so I stopped, but my home network is not fast. The machine I use to stream from is connected to my router by ethernet, but I am not sure if that makes a difference.
Menu operation is simple and intuitive. If it were not for the lack of multi-region playback, this would be almost the perfect machine, and for the price, I can recommend it.
Rating: 4 / 5
Have yet to try Blu-ray discs, but DVDs are terrific. Picking up music and photos from my computer system is a breeze. Updates from LG are received regularly. These can take a few minutes to download and update, but normal boot up is not unacceptable.
Rating: 5 / 5
everything is just fantastic about this BD570 picture brill, sound brill, internet connection brill cannot find one fault. well worth twice the price.
One thing though do not pay extra for quick delivery promise, it is awfull did not arrive on date promised could not get reply from carrier to e-mails and then still had the cheek to keep money.
Rating: 5 / 5