LG's
BD300 can handle both Blu-ray Discs and HD Netflix, though
PC Advisor's recent review focused squarely on the disc spinning abilities of the deck. Overall, critics were fairly pleased with the offering, though they didn't hold back their criticism for its lackluster DVD upscaling performance. The good news, however, is that it did look pretty good when playing back bona fide BDs, though we get the sense that the image quality wasn't anything phenomenal. Critics did take time to praise the relatively quick load times and the nice build quality of the remote, but the omission of a backlight made the keys difficult to see with the lights down. The bottom line? It's a feature-packed player that has more than a few tricks up its sleeve, but these reviewers still expected better looking images for the money.
posted Dec 22nd 2008 5:19PM
bd-p2550 > 300 imo if you're looking for netflix. Pandora music streaming is pretty nice as well.
DVD Upscaling: No longer relevant.
You're right, every movie I could possibly want to watch is on Blu-Ray. No Star Wars, LotR, Good, Bad, and the Ugly, pulp fiction, etc, etc..
All are already available in HD via other sources though, well maybe not the Good the Bad and the Ugly, I haven't personally seen that out there yet.
You are very wrong if you think most folks don't consider upscaling SD DVD's as important.
Call me crazy, but mediocre image quality is not what I am hoping for in a BD player.
Hmm, not much of a review and its in a UK magazine which means PAL DVDs and no Netflix. Performance might be quite different with NTSC discs and output.
nope.