Blu Ray Disc Players

LG group is the largest South Korean company that manufactures a wide range of products such as mobile phones and petrochemical products. When it comes to the field of the high definition players, LG was the first company to bring a smart solution to the hi-def format war by introducing their LG BH100 Blu-Ray/HD DVD player which could play both the formats. Though there were a few drawbacks with that player, it was one of the most welcome products in the UK markets. LG’s next product in the high definition discs is the LG BD300 Blu-Ray DVD Player. This player is one of the most anticipated one, which supports the “winner” format of the hi-def disc war, the “Blu-Ray” format.

This time too, LG has come up with another “first” for the most increasingly popular format as, LG BD300 Blu-Ray Player will be the first to be able to stream the Netflix on-line watch show of a range of movies. LG BD300 Blu-ray dvd Player has also come up with a number of other additional useful network features.

Design:

LG BD 300 Blu-ray disc Player looks slim and has a glossy piano-black finish for its face and matte black finish for its sides. It comes with the dimension (H x W x D) 58 x 430 x 280mm which is comparatively compact. The player has the four main buttons, that is, the play, stop, forward and reverse buttons towards its right and the disc tray is present towards its left. The buttons glow blue when the player is on, which might give the player a gorgeous look but might end up irritating if you are watching the movie in a dark room. The player has the FLD (Ferro Liquid Display) display. This display allows you to have high density displays in smaller areas. LG has given the player a good build quality as always.

As with the previous version, BD100 comes with the universal remote control which looks big but not bulky and can be held comfortably in hand. The buttons are placed in logical places and back light illumination is available for the menu direction pad. This remote control can be used to control all the LG TV products.
The rear panel of BD100 sports the Audio L/R, Coaxial, Optical, HDMI and Multi ch. Audio out. The HDMI used is of version1.3 (deep colour).

Picture and sound quality:

LG BD-300 Blu Ray Player produces the best possible picture quality as it supports the 1080p Full HD picture quality. It plays back high definition movies on to a compatible TV with a resolution of up to 1080p, which is the best quality that you can ever get.

LG BD 300 High Definition player comes with a storage space of 50GB which aids in producing better quality of both picture and sound. As the sound does not need to be compressed, there is no loss in the quality of the sound and the details are presented as they are. This Blu-ray disc player supports both the formats of the high definition audio such as the Dobly TrueHD and DTS-HD Audio.

Supported formats:

The playable disc formats of the player are, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE, DVD(NTSC), DVD(PAL), DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, Audio CD, CD-R and CD-RW. LG BD300 Player plays the existing DVDs and upscales them to 1080p picture quality.

The supported video formats includes DivX, MPEG2, MPEG AVC (H.264), SMPTE VC1 (VC-9) and the supported audio formats are, LPCM, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS, DTS-HD MA, MPEG1/2 L2 (PCM only), MP3 (PCM only), and WMA (PCM only). The image formats supported includes PNG, JPEG and GIF.

Features and performance:

This player comes with the super fast loading time of just 25seconds and booting time of 20 seconds. This time period is comparatively very good. The time bar displayed is very handy and this player does have the instant tray open.

BD100 is of profile 2.0 along with the Ethernet connection for online access from the interactive blu-ray discs. With this, you will be able to pre-view new title, subtitle and audio stream from server.

This player does come with the USB port for MP3 music or movie playback from an USB stick or an external hard drive. You will not be having any concerns about any complicated connections as SIMPLINK will allow you to have automatic AV input search on your screen.

Verdict:
This LG blu-ray disc player has a lot of advantages but its major competitor is Sony’s playstation3. But since PS3 has Wi-Fi, LG BD300 will have to face some serious competition. Since it has been recently released, we will have to wait to see how it performs.

LG BD300 Blu-Ray DVD Player - Technical Specification Details

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