LG BD350 Blu-ray Player (Black) (BD350)
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Review by L. Ketzer for LG BD350 Blu-ray Player (Black) (BD350)
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Finally LG got it. This 5th generation blu-ray player of LG has got it al. You can play all kind of discs on this player without any delay or problems. Superb blu-ray playback, excellent dvd and cd playback. Good design. Very slim model. Easy remote control. Great player for the true film and music lover!
Review by G. Palmer for LG BD350 Blu-ray Player (Black) (BD350)
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This seems to do everything I had hoped my previous (Sharp BDHP-20H … which is now in the bin!) would do – straight out of the box. Installation is simplicity itself, disc load time is slick, on screen menu is simple and fast to use and the picture quality is undoubtedly better than the Sharp (and that’s to a Sharp Aquos 42″ TV). Film sound quality is at least as good (through an Onkyo AV receiver) but music CD playback is considerably better in both quality and accuracy. So far I have experienced none of the gremlins I suffered for 2 years on the Sharp machine. I have also downloaded the latest firmware from the LG website and loading that was simplicity itself. For under £100 it is hard to know how you can go wrong … particularly when Sharp want £50 to even send someone to look at the old one! It undoubtedley lacks the quality look and feel of the Sharp box (or Sony for that matter) both the unit and the remote feel ‘budget’ in comparison … but what does that matter when it does what it does so well and sits hidden in a cabinet anyway.
Review by A. J. Thomson for LG BD350 Blu-ray Player (Black) (BD350)
. Plays lots of media – DVD/CD/USB stick. Even plays DivX, _but_ only ones that are 720×576 or less (I downloaded 720p and 1080p HD DivX files but the player refuses to play them with the ‘resolution greater than 720×576′ message – this with latest firmware too). Sound goes via HDMI, there’s an SPDIF coax out too, but no optical. Via HDMI or SPDIF you can choose for the audio stream to be passed through, or sent as stereo pcm/pcm-multi-channel, or will re-encode to DTS (if your A/V amp supports DTS/Dobly Digital, just use pass through). Watched planet earth on blu-ray and the picture is outstanding.
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A very sleek blu-ray player, takes up hardly any space, a shave under 40mm high. Quick to start up and play blu-ray discs (some other makes take quite a while to start playing blu-rays). It will upscale DVDs to 1080p with good results, and is multi-region for DVDs (well mine is anyway
There’s a USB socket at the front of the unit, where you can plug in USB sticks/hard drives and play the media (movies/music/photos) from them.
There is no ethernet port on the back of the box, but this is no great loss – the only thing it would be of use for me is playing content from a NAS drive, but I’m not even sure those blu-ray players with an ethernet port allow that anyway. BD-Live is just a gimmick to me, so I’m not scoring it down for no ethernet.
Note there is no HDMI cable provided, but you never get them on any player at this price range.
All in all, a good blu-ray player that does the job well, and excellent value (esp from richer sounds), so 5* from me.
Review by D Dude for LG BD350 Blu-ray Player (Black) (BD350)
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Very pleased with the purchase – has played everything I’ve tried so far. USB playback is usefull.
Good loading time for blu ray disk and menu navigation is straightforward. Picture is very good and upscaling enhances DVD and USB playback – sometimes it is just a slight improvement but does make the viewing experience better.
I got this to replace a cheaper blu-ray player which has had major issues with blu ray disk playback and I realise I should have spent the extra £18 price difference from the start and got the LG as this has played all the disks so far.
Good product for the price.
Review by S. Quinn for LG BD350 Blu-ray Player (Black) (BD350)
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Plays everything I’ve thrown at it perfectly! DVD, M2TS, MKV, AVCHD, BD-R, Blu-ray all with varying resolutions and encodings and they all work. After having tested other blu-ray players and media players this is the only one that played them all perfectly. Many players can’t even automatically change the refresh rate to 60i, 50i and 24hz but this player does it fine!
It does have a few problems, no region free hack is a big problem (rather ridiculous these days), only supports FAT32 on USB drives and it plays 24p X264 files at 50hz (instead of 60hz) on non-24hz TVs – they play properly at 24hz on a 24p TV. Apart from that this is a bargain price.
UPDATE: It does actually support NTFS formatted USB drives!