LG BH200 Super Blu Blu-Ray HD DVD Combo Player
- Super BluPlayer Plays both Blu-Ray and HD DVD High Defintion Disc Formats with more than Twice the Resolution of Standard DVD Discs
- Full HD 1080P Output Provides Wide Compatiblity with Full HD 1080P TV’s and Up-Scales Standard DVD’s to Full HD TV’s
- HDMI 1.3 with Deep Color Improves Color Tones to Achieve Finer Color Gradations and Delivers Smoother And More Brilliant Video Output
- QDEO Advanced Video Processor for Superior Up-scaling Accuracy And Noise Reduction and Color Precision
- Advanced Interactivity for Access to Rich menus and Extra Features Available from Many Blu-Ray and HD DVD Discs
The Super Blu Player offers increased HDTV entertainment choices, because it can play 50 to 60 percent more high-def movie titles than either single-format player. With full networked interactivity available from selected HD DVDs, and the capability to handle networked “BD-Live” interactivity in forthcoming Blu-ray discs, it is the latest available technology that plays both disc formats.The LG Super Blu Player, which can output up to 1080p video resolution at 24-, 30- and 60-frames-per-second, supports various A/V formats, including MPEG-2, VC-1, H.264 video, MPEG1/2 audio, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital+, DTS and DTS-HD audio. The unit also includes multiple inputs/outputs such as HDMI 1.3 out, component/composite video outputs, digital optical and analog audio outputs as well as a LAN Ethernet port for network interactivity.LG Super Blu Player customers will enjoy superior quality video output with HDMI 1.3 Deep Color output to improve color tones and achieve finer color gradations to… More >>
LG BH200 Super Blu Blu-Ray HD DVD Combo Player
I give LG alot of credit for breaking into the format war and making a dual player. Good idea, bad timing. After a few weeks of exposure for the “LG Super Blu-Ray HD-DVD combo player” several companies have switched exclusively to Blu-Ray. Subsequently making the LG BH200 a gigantic waste of money. Half of the player can now be stripped and used as a paper weight. Now get to work on that new Blu-Ray only player, LG. I have high hopes that you can make one that wont freeze up constantly, or reject Blu-Ray discs. And think about 7.1 audio. Sharp has that nailed.Sharp Aquos BDHP20U 1080p Blu-Ray Disc Player
I would not be able to do a review on this as the one I received was bad and had to be returned. I was not sent a new one that the way I was told – instead I was credited back. I was not told a new one would not be sent nor that I would be credited back.
So, I still do not know how it would perform and I have DVD’s that I can not watch.
My “good news” experience with this player began with my very first impression after trying it out on two high definition types of DVD discs, one Blu-Ray (Planet Earth) and the other an HDTV-DV (The Sting). And, I thought that the image color and definition on both of these were just about astonishingly beautiful, clear and well matched. Also, I didn’t find it to be an objectionably long wait for the player to make its initial determinations of the type of format being introduced, each time a new disc was loaded (although I would just a soon prefer that its designers had left out the little animated circle that kind of annoyingly pops in just about any time the player encounters even the slightest delay in performing a newly assigned task to perform.
So, next, I tried out an older, standard DVD formatted disc (Dances with Wolves), which I thought had an improved appearance that came surprisingly close to that of the two higher definition discs. This led me to the question of whether it also would appear to improve the definition of some DVDs that I produced and burned myself, for a letterbox type of widescreen appearance (which used to fill the complete screen of my widescreen TV’s 1.78 x 1 aspect ratio, with the TV changing to its Wide-Zoom mode). But, this is where the “bad news” began, in my experience with this player.
Apparently because of the HDMI cable connection that I am using (connecting both video and audio to the player in a single cable, supposedly to achieve the best definition and quality for each), the wide-zoom mode on my TV became disabled. Instead, the entire 4 X 3 ratio of my DVD’s recorded image, which includes the black, horizontal top and bottom borders, became stretched horizontally to fit that 4 X 3 image onto the wider, 1.78 X 1 screen. This resulted in a display that has letterbox black strips at the top and bottom and a horizontally stretched picture area where all the people look exceptionally short and fat, etc.
So, next, I grabbed one of my favorite commercially manufactured, standard format DVDs that uses a same-as-my-screen, 1.78 X 1 aspect ratio format (the CLOUD: Wild Horse program from the PBS Nature series) and the same thing happened (only, in the virtual absence of human subjects, it was the wild horses who looked extra fat, if they were running toward or away from the camera, and exceptionally long bodied if they were viewed horizontally). After that, I finally got rid of at least the letterbox format type of horizontal top and bottom borders, when I popped in a standard DVD formated, “full screen” (4:3 ratio) disk. But, here again, it stretched the whole thing horizontally, so that I was looking at more squashed and fattened people.
Then, something occurred to me about that HDTV-TV formatted disc of The Sting, that I had tried out. I remembered checking on its aspect ratio before buying it, to insure that it preserved it’s Hollywood type of widescreen appearance, which is wider than a wide-screen TV, and reading that it did, indeed, have an aspect ratio of 1.85 X 1 (meaning that it should display slight letterbox borders, even on my 1.78 X 1 TV. But, it wasn’t doing that. It was, instead, filling the complete screen, apparently clipping the sides of the full image. And, the complete screen even was filled when I next clicked onto the “Special Features” interviews. Only, I was back to another return of horizontally overstretched people. (I’m guessing that those interviews were produced at a less costly 4 X 3 aspect ratio.) AND, THIS IS WITH AN HDTV-DV FORMATTED DISC PLAYING ON A DEVICE THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE AN HDTV-DV FORMATTED PLAYER!
My quick-fix solution to all this, until I possibly can come up with a better idea, has been to leave my new player connected the way it is (for apparently best definition and quality in viewing the actually higher definition main features, while replacing on the shelf my old, standard format DVD player, reconnecting it with its three component video and two audio channel cables, for use most frequently with “Full Screen” DVDs. (For some reason, the new player so far has been producing absolutely gorgeous letterbox displays on most of my standard DVD recordings of the really widescreen, Hollywood type movies. Apparently, where that extended widescreen look is concerned, my new high definiation players only has a problem with my new HDTV-DV copy of The Sting. Go figure!)
Do not buy an Lg Dvd player. I purchased an BH 200 Blu-ray/hddvd player, with the expectation that I could update it as needed. It turns out that LG has not supported anything other than Windows 2000 or XP for downloads. Vista doesn’t exist for them. I was treated rudely by customer support, and promised a disc within 10 business days which has yet to materialize well after that. When I called to find out why, they curtly told me that they ran out of discs, and had to order more. It is hard to imagine a more lame excuse. This is a pathetic company for customer service, which seems to be more important what we are accustomed to.
fair product once the price drops, brought it because I had HD as well as B/R, takes too long to upload B/R, it was faster at 1st, even updated filmware, advice get a PS3, then you get B/R games and wireless internet for B/R Live