LG BP620-C 1080P 3D Blu-Ray Player with built-in WiFi, 3D HDMI cable included

My initial experience with this was a weird one. After unpacking this and hooking it up, the disc door would not open up-like it was jammed or something. So I opened up the cover and found that the door was stuck to the frame. Like it was glued. After some gentle prying I got it to open. I've been buying tech gear for over 35 yrs-First time I've seen anything like this. The boot time is short-About 10 seconds. Play is smooth no lock-ups. The Apps section is good, Pandora, Netflix, Hulu Plus, FB, etc. but they are slow to load. The wired network sees my media server and has no trouble with iTunes encoding. Other than the door issue I am quite pleased.

While Blu Ray won the HD disk battle over HD-DVD, that doesn't mean it was the better standard. While I sure the next superficial standard HDDVDBDRBDSTD is just around the corner, I still have to contend with this generation.The player itself is alright, but you must absolutely update it. Periodically a movie will not play right, or freeze, or the audio won't work right, or something equally as stupid, and you will be tempted to blame the disk. You won't be wrong, but you will also need to update your player. This has solved the problem each time for me.The interface is just ugly. Seriously.... ugly. Almost like LG didn't even try. They just looked at an iPhone's rounded tile front screen and said "good enough!"Other than that, it plays movies. It takes a little while to get to the actual playing of the movie, but eventually... you will get there.

Has worked perfectly, all the features I was looking for at a great value. LG has a reliable, easy, using winner with this 3D Blu-Ray player.

The product was delivered within the estimated time frame and was fully functional when received. It came packed in original packaging and had all cabels, remote control, cabels and manuals required to setup and operate. The product performed as expected when initially operated.

I purchased this item and it was supposed to be new. I was sent the item in a non descript box, not original. The first thing I noticed was that there were fingerprints all over the blu-ray player. I took the remote out of the box and saw that it had been previously opened because the taped bar code on the back was ripped and taped back together. I gave this the benefit of the doubt and plugged it in. The blu-ray player wouldn't even turn on. It appears as though I was sent a broken item that surely someone else returned, and someone tried to pass it off as new.

[EDITED April 2013. They just pushed a new Netflix "app" and it's absolutely terrible. I wish Amazon would allow me to subtract stars when editing. These LG guys are wasting my precious time like it's candy. Forced automatic updates, too, nothing you can do when they have a bad idea]This is a device with a lot of functionality. It is very difficult to decide whether to praise it for being so rich in different things it can do or bash it for doing them incompletely. So I held back with the review until I used it more.Unfortunately I still have to rate the experience as insatisfactory and my TV rack is not where it should be. I have not been able to really let go of "real PCs".I won't go through the number of features again, I am just listing the things that are supposed to work and don't quite.No Amazon prime video. Why? Come on, who is dropping the ball here? I don't subtract points for this since it might be Amazon to blame but somebody needs to get cracking.Network functionality: LG doesn't document clearly what kind of network protocols it reads under what circumstances. It just tosses a CD with some software your way and expects you to run it. Sorry that's not the way I do it. I expect standard protocols to be used and documentation on which parts are supported. I could not make SMB network drives work at all, although I copy and pasted all kinds of supposed working things from the 'net. I can only assume that my particular player with my particular firmware has no SMB functionality. The reason why this makes my angry is not that the functionality is lacking. It is LG's non-communication on the issue.UPnP kinda works, except when it magically does not, and then it just displays a rotating wait circle til the end of time. I have seen a lot of that.Speaking of it, there are no error messages or any other kind of diagnostics, ever. It's not just that the only error message is "didn't work" like you see often. In this case there isn't even a "doesn't work". It just greyed out stuff or endless hourglasses.The display of filenames on USB sticks is braindead, it cuts off after a couple characters so that you can't tell the filenames from each other. After 5 seconds (why the delay) it slowly scrolls sideways at an annoying slow speed. I had to go back to 1983 8+3 MS-DOS filenames. Not cool. Yes, I use the USB stick a lot since the network things are so unreliable.Although it has good ability to remember where you left off watching, including tracking whole series/seasons on Blu Ray, I also had a high number of cases where it tossed the information where I was. It seems that watching something else in between destroys play status easily. My old $30 Philips DVD player would never do that, I can probably pull it out the attick in 2058 and it knows where I left off.Thingie is not able to play DVD other than from the disk. It can neither read DVD disk image files from USB or network, not can it deal with the whole directory structure presented on USB or the network. My PC-based players all do that fine. In practice that means you have to convert to a plain mpeg file to watch if you have an archive on disk. Or in other words, you lose all menus and extras from the disk.Netflix access has two software packages in this thing, one works, one doesn't (prevents code not recognized by Netflix).The biggest single disappointment is using your cellphone or tablet as a remote. What I really wanted is to use a better "keyboard" than just up and down keys to enter characters when searching youtube or netflix. Sadly no support for bluetooth keyboards is in here, but they do allow you to use your cellphone or tablet as a remote - which have acceptable keyboard. And you know what they do - they only use the tablet for up and down and the other keys already on the remote. They do not provide a single extra button, and there is *no* use of the touchpad for entering text. Plus the Android software doesn't work at all for me, although the IOS version did work. Useless. But works.As I said, lots of functionality but ultimately disappointing. My PC does all of the above fine.

I bought this as I gift for my parents and wish I would have gotten them for myself. The internet connectivity was very easy and I have less issues with it losing signal while streaming movies from Netflix than I have had with other WiFi dvd players. The price was right and the product is great. I would recommend.

The installation was a piece of cake. I was up and going within minutes. It integrated well with my new television and I am happily watching 3D movies. It is also slim and unobtrusive. It blends in well with the other equipment without a whole lot of flashing lights and gadgetry.