LG BD590 Blu Ray Player Review
May 12, 2010
The LG BD590 has achieved an exceptional feedback score at the most popular review sites on the Internet, averaging between 4.5/5 and 5/5 stars. This is absolutely incredible and honestly hard to achieve. If the feedback score is this exceptional, what's so special about it? Well, for starters, the LG BD590 has everything you could possibly want in a Blu-Ray DVD player.
Features
- 250 GB Hard Drive
- 802.11N Wireless Networking
- HD BD Live
- 1080 Pixel Resolution
- Dolby Digital 7.1 Analog Output
- True HD and dts-HD Sound Support
- Quick Boot
- Instant Tray Opening
- Standard DVD Upscaling
- USB Media Host
- SimpLink Technology
- Support
- Support for All the Most Common Media Formats
Design
The design of the LG BD590 is similar to the other LG models before it. Both the 570 and 590 look quite similar but the real changes from the 570 to the 590 are in how the insides work.
Remote Control
The All In One remote control allows you to control all of your connected LG HDMI devices with just one remote. That's all the more reason to buy everything LG. If you own all LG devices, then being able to control them all with one remote will virtually eliminate the bother of losing remotes. Complete with lots of buttons to control the numerous functions, you can be sure you won't be without the ability to control the entire device.
Performance
The performance of this blu ray player is incredible. Fantastic boot up times, super fast tray opening, quick boot time and the 250 gigabyte hard drive are what really shine. Being able to store a load of downloaded content from the 802.11 wireless networking feature makes for a Blue-Ray DVD player that’s really worth the price tag! The access times of the hard drive are phenomenal as well, providing you with an instant way to access your favorite movies, videos, sound, photos and libraries. You can store whatever you want on the hard drive. If you can download it, you can store it. You can even rip all the CD's you play in your player onto the drive.
Problems
There are zero problems to speak of with this player. Everything about the blu ray DVD player works perfectly. If there was one thing we could change, we would include 3D Blu-Ray support. This technology hasn't quite caught on yet but if it does, we would make sure that everybody would get to try it out.
Overall Opinion
It's fast, efficient and allows you to store all your favorite files. It's just like a home PC with the ability to display cinema quality movies. It doesn't get any better than this. The $380.00 price tag is a step up from the 570 model but the included hard drive makes it all worth it. You'll be hard pressed to find a Blu-Ray DVD player with all of these features, an included hard drive and exceptional performance for the price. Have a good time shopping!
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Description
Move beyond even the amazing capabilities of Blu-ray and instant streaming entertainment with the BD590 Blu-ray Disc player from LG. You're not just getting the best way to enjoy Full HD 1080p with Blu-ray or the unparalleled entertainment options of being hooked up to Net Cast Entertainment Access...
Features
- Blu-ray Player with 250GB Hard Drive 802.11N for Wireless networking NetCast for YouTube & CinemaNow
- BD-P NetFlix HD BD live
- Full HD 1080p output via HDMI with Cinema mode at 24 or 60 frames per second
- Superior audio performance with Dolby Digital, TrueHD & dts-HD
- Quick boot with instant tray opening
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Wireless N — Not for Airport
Ok,
Bought this because I heard it was Mac friendly. Unfortunately the wireless N doesn’t work if you have an airport with a 5GHz radio. The LG only does N at 2.4GHz.
I just got the unit out of the box and expect the other reviewers comments to hold true. Therefore I’ll give this unit 4 stars unless I come back to amend this review.
PS — Be sure to run the update to get the latest firmware after opening.
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Nice and Easy
SETUP is so simple and easy even an adult or a young whippersnapper like Johnny McCain can do it. If you adhere to the adage that “real men don’t read instructions” and choose to ignore the illustrated step by step “Quick Start” card, the instructional CD and the profusely illustrated manual you can call the LG Service center (in would you believe? Alabama!) and a very patient tech will guide you through the few simple required steps. Within a few minutes of opening the box I had activated Netflix and was able to watch Dimitri sing “Il balen del suo suriso” on Youtube.
ROUTER: Although the manual recommends an ethernet cable (even going so far as to remind you that you can purchase one up to 40 feet long) or failing that an “n” router, fear not. I used my trusty, basic AT&T 2701 HG-B Modem/router (which rumor has it is now a prize in a box of Crackerjacks) and it worked perfectly. The router is in another room, (with the door open) 30 feet from the LG 590 (I measured the distance), on the other side of a 6 inch wall and the clarity of the audio and video was excellent.
The LG 590 automatically upgrades DVDs and streaming to 1080p (if your TV is set up for 1080p). If black bars appear at the top and bottom of the screen you can fill the screen by clicking on “Display” – “Resolution” – “1080p full” as opposed to “1080p original”.
The remote has several intriguing colored buttons including one labeled “Zoom” that apparently enlarges or diminishes the picture in varying percentages. I have not used that yet.
Pro: Everything works perfectly!
Con: The “Dancing Ice Cubes” on the netscape may tend to induce mal de mer in sensitive people. Couldn’t they just lie there? Actually this is not really a flaw but it was the only thing I could find to criticize.
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Great Product
This unit is amazing. First off, the shipping was fast. It was packaged well, no dents, problems, etc. Set-up was a breeze. Pulled the unit out of the box, hooked it up and turned it on. Start up was very fast. The main menu does catch sometimes, but not that badly. Getting the unit set-up with my wireless network was very easy, as was setting up my pandora, accuweather, and netflix accounts. The second time I turned on the unit, there was a software and driver update waiting to be downloaded. The unit is amazing. I’ve not had any issues with staying connected to the internet. It doesn’t slow down the wireless connection at all. The streaming is incredibly clear. I would highly recommend this unit.
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LG Blur Ray Player
It is a very capable unit with many features. Some things are a little awkward but overall most features work very well. I do with that I could stream directly from my computer, but having access to all of my files is useful. I have enjoy the direct connection to Utube and NetFlix. But have not played a complete Blu-Ray disk yet.
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Fantastic but a bit pricey should be price at $300
LG has made a great product and it has slow mo for blu-ray disc. To many that may not see like anything special but my other 2 (Sony BDP-BX1 and Samsung BDP-1590) blu-ray players do not have this feature for any type of disc being played. Overall the unit does everything very well to excellent. The speed loading of blu-ray is not more impressive than that of my almsot 2 year old sony blu-ray but still fast enough for me.
Internet connections were a breeze via wired or wireless though I wished it would retain the wireless setting (SSID and passwords)when you switch to a wired setting. The online offerings are very impressive and all work: Google’s Picasa; YouTube; AccuWeather; Netflix with a free trial offer; CinemaNow; VUDU with one free rental; and PANDORA. I hope they add more apps with software/firmware updates.
The remote is large, easy to hold and has all the buttons needed to use all the features of the unit and also will in my case control the most basic of functions of my TV: power and volume.
Having the large 250GB HD is a luxury but not a necessity as the front USB port can be used to access an external HD at a excellent speed. So you could really save about a $100 by buying the identical BD570 less the HD. I like the luxury, lol.
I do not like the front panel having a flip down panel that always drops down to insert/eject a disc but not too much of an issue. The flip door becomes an issue when you need to insert a USB stick or cable then the door has to remain down. In addition when they designed these new LG units they should have added an additional USB port in the rear.
But that is all I can find fault with the unit. They are not too small but small enough and very light even with the HD and the remote and internet access are all great. Picture quality is fantastic with blu-ray and same for non-blu ray disc. The fact that you can actually insert a CD and rip it to your HD is nothing short of omg what a nice feature.
I have placed my entire music and picture collection onto the HD and it is sweet to be able to get such easy access to these files. The link to my Laptop PC files works even without having to use the LG software for sharing files bewteen PC/Laptop and the player and that too is a nice feature to have available.
The unit works and works great! I would recommend it highly to any or to save money the BD570 and then hook up an external HD. Love the unit. My biggest knock is the price given that 3D Blu-ray players are just around the corner it seems this unit would be better priced at or below $300.
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Great unit!
This is a fabulous player and I honestly couldn’t have asked for more. I had initially considered purchasing the Oppo 83 but I’m glad I went with the LG. I essentially wanted a media player that was capable of playing Netflix, Youtube, blu-ray, DVD-ROM, Pandora, and ripped movies stored on my PC. The LG is that perfect device. I had read one review that stated you can’t play movies via a USB external hard drive but that simply is not true. With the latest firmware update, I plugged in my WD500 Mybook and bam… all my movies were accessible to the LG unit. I’ve had this player for approximately 3 weeks and am simply in amazement of what a great system it is. It really is a do it all player with excellent quality and great speed. Streaming movies over wi-fi via Netflix or my PC has been simply flawless. Spend the time to set it up correctly and you will simply have no regrets purchasing this unit. I fully recommend it to anyone looking for such a unit.
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Best BD player on the market to play Blu-rays and other stuff?
Little background on me: I owned or have owned a BH100, BH200, BD300, BD370 and BD390. So pretty much every LG Blu-ray player except the 270.
Pros:
Fast – I noticed DVD and Blu-ray loaded just a wee bit faster than my LG BD390. The difference wasn’t amazing, but maybe a few seconds.
VuDu, Netflix, Pandora etc – They work just as they should. VuDu is identical to that on the BD390, but Netflix is the new version that allows you to view new movies/TV to Instant, has Genres, collections etc. No, it’s not EVERYTHING that [...] offers, but you probably have a rotating selection of 300 different programs to check out if you don’t feel like breaking out the laptop.
GracieNotes – Wow. Freakin’ awesome. I managed to pull song information from a DVD, BD and a ‘movie’ file. As an added bonus; Hit the Display button while watching something (I assume DVD/BD only) and at the very bottom is ‘Movie Information’. Click it and it will tell you what you are watching (small picture), synopsis, actor names etc. Woah!
250GB HD – Big selling point and works well. You are able to copy directly from an external HD/USB to the intern HD or via WiFi. Your choice. Obviously a wired copy will be faster than WiFi, so I set mine to copy 100GB from my external HD and went to bed. Woke up, and watched some stuff. Works very well and was fast. Maybe it can be upgraded? Out of the box it had 246GB out of 250GB available. So everything else is stored on internal memory. I bet this can be upped…
WiFi – Faster. Before, VuDu was a bit choppy, but now it was perfect.
DNLA – Works fine on my MacBook (some had issues?)
Cons:
Pandora – Ok, it’s great to finally get this, but why can’t I assume the colored buttons to be an easy Thumb Up, zzzz, Thumbs Down, Bookmark? Seems like it would be much easier, but the colored buttons do other things in Pandora. Feels like a wasted opportunity.
Music on HD – Well, it won’t play iTunes DMR files or ones in m4a format (iTunes automatically converts them this way when you rip from CD unless you tell it not to). I spent 2 hours converting everything in my library to .mp3 so I could import them. Funny thing is, it actually imports the folder name, but none of the tracks. Took me a while to figure out why it skipped several CDs (I did 10 right away).
Size – Why is this bigger? I get it has a 250GB HD inside, but those are the size of an iPhone and the back of the units reeks of being a Gen2 unit and not a Gen5 version.
Menu – Sigh. All of the online stuff is in the Netcast icon, which means you have to click it, wait for it to load, and then you get presented with Netflix, VuDu etc. An extra step, but c’mon, there is a ton of room on that menu screen. Which is now redesigned to look like animated Ice Cubes in a pool. Odd choice…
Picture Settings – Remember how the BD390 could allow you to add/remove Edge Enhancement, DNR etc. That’s gone. I even tried using my BD390 remote and the player didn’t do anything. WTF? This is the top of the line player (out of 3 now!) and this was removed? Update: FIXED! The Picture Setting Menu is now found when you hit ‘Display’ during a movie. There are as many options as the BD390, but its better than none.
USB – Really, under a trap door? I get that some people may not want to pull their gear out to plug in a USB dogle, but get a $2 extension. Thankfully, with the Internal HD, I’ll never use it.
Meh:
Remote – I don’t hate it…but I like the BD590. I’ll never use the numbers, so I would prefer them to be hidden in a trap door so I would have less to look at. The Center and arrow keys do feel better, and the Power button is HUGE compared to the identical sized Power/Eject of the previous. The Play/Pause/Skip are clear white…not sure why. They don’t glow. So confused.
DVD Upconversion – Looks about the same.
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Excellent Blu-Ray Player with a wide array of internet entertainment options
I purchased the BD590 from Best Buy a couple of days after it first appeared in stock. I have had some experience with LG Bluray before since I own the also excellent BD390 so when I needed another one for a different room in the house the newer model LG was at the top of my list.
Having owned it for a few weeks I have the following to note.
Pros
1. Fast Blu-Ray loading times. Very crisp clear image and fortunately since I own a receiver capable of decoding Lossless HD formats I really like the sound as well. Does the Blu ray format justice
2, My favorite aspect of this and the BD 390 by far is the VUDU functionality. I think Vudu is a tremendous service (perhaps will get even better now that’s its been purchased by Wal-Mart). To have a large library of 1080p HD available at your fingertips is fantastic and the LG does a nice job displaying very pleasing audio and video off Vudu. I would buy this for this feature alone.
3, Although no shortage of Netflix ready devices in my HT lineup having this and other internet sources such as Pandora are nice options.
4. I read some complaints about the new interface compared to the older LGs but to my eyes its nicer looking and just as easy to navigate
5. I used Ethernet to connect this player but did test out the 802.11n and was able to connect to my Airport Extreme powered network with no problems
6. CD ripping is a great feature and I was able to archive a library of 200 CDs or so with little trouble. Gracenote does a nice job tagging the tracks.
Cons
I really didn’t find much not to like about this player. Mostly just nice to haves. I would have liked if it supported Amazon VOD since that’s my other source for video and I did think that the footprint was still a little large although sleeker and lighter that my older model.
I first lucked into the BD390 when it was highly recommended by a HT installer. I am pleased to note that the 590 is a nice upgrade with newer functionality on an old favorite. Highly recommended.
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