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post #3661 of 6863
11/19/09 at 10:51am
I am gonna pickup the lg 390 player this weekend. With a bb coup. Hope this one has a better pic than my panny bdk30 does. Though I think the panny has a pretty good image. Giving my panny to my folks no problems with it since purchase. Hope this one serves me well also.
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post #3662 of 6863
11/19/09 at 11:08am
Just got a BD390 and I can do everything but play a video file back. All my shared media shows up but when I try and play it back I get a message saying "cannot play file" All I have to test with are sample media from my Win7 install and some OTA recordings through WMC. I've tried some .wmv and .wtv files and I get the same message over and over whether I use Windows Server or the Nero Server. Audio and Photos are no problem. Netflix and Vudu are not a problem. All security settings are off. Any suggestions?
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post #3663 of 6863
11/19/09 at 11:42am
Try a MKV or AVI.
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post #3664 of 6863
11/19/09 at 11:45am
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Originally Posted by Carlos Martinez View Post

I live outside the USA and made the mistake of buying the BD390 in the USA, and the firmware now it's blocked for region-free hack, as it's available everywhere else.

Is there a way to fix that?

There should be a warning here about those limitations. I will try to put one on the customers feedback in Amazon, where I bought it.

You mean you didn't think for a minute it might be region locked before you ordered and chose not to do 5 minutes of research?
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post #3665 of 6863
11/19/09 at 11:54am
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Originally Posted by davelr View Post

1. Can anyone verify that the highly sporadic connections would be primarily due to the line speed available? The PC viewer always connects, but I can see that the LG might have internal timeouts that cut the connection before it actually plays.

2. Have any of you had problems with online FW downloads on slow lines?

3. Has anyone been able to get a 390 to do a FW update from a USB file? If so, how? The instruction PDF on the support site doesn't seem to be accurate.

Thanks

BTW: Once I get Netflix to actually start playing a movie it runs w/o problems. It's only getting it to play initially that's the problem.

3. They are very accurate, but they have file name as

.ROM

and it's up to you to deduce that you downloaded a zipped file and you have to unzip it. They could be more explicit. After that it's a very smooth ride - been there, done it multiple times, never failed.

1. and 2. I believe there is a problem with your network, e.g., router. As you noted yourself a computer is much more sophisticated than 390 in processing
errors and time-outs. PPPoE introduces timeout while establishing a connection. You cannot change that, but a smarter router can help.
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post #3666 of 6863
11/19/09 at 11:59am
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Originally Posted by Carlos Martinez View Post

There should be a warning here about those limitations. I will try to put one on the customers feedback in Amazon, where I bought it.

You're kidding, ain't you?
Warning: "Don't break the equipment, obey the law!!!"
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post #3667 of 6863
11/19/09 at 12:32pm
I picked up a 370 today from BB to try out. I already have a Samsung 1590 and Panasonic 60. I am trying to find a player that I like as much as the 60 but that has Netflix streaming. I hope the 370 is it.

I've only used the 1590 for a few days but I don't think I'll be keeping it. The fan is audble from across the room. I am using this in a bedroom so I want a quiet player. I was very happy when I plugged the 370 in. It is almost dead quiet. It is so quiet that I took the cover off to see if there is a fan. I was happy to see there isn't one! The drive is also very quiet. I only have a cd and dvd with me at work but I hope the drive is just as quiet with a BR.

If the PQ and overall performance is as good as the 60 then I'll be keeping it.

Any tips for when I install it? Should I update the firmware? If so should I do it online or use a cd/usb stick? I have had good luck updating firmware with the 60 and 1590 over the internet.
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post #3668 of 6863
11/19/09 at 12:45pm
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Originally Posted by ptsenter View Post

2)this becomes tricky: DLNA restricted to 2000 names - files or folders (directories). If you have more than 2000 up to 2000 songs will appear under "All files", but all your albums, artists, ... will be empty.
With direct access you'll be able to access all your songs regardless of how deep your file structure. But with direct access you won't be able to play all songs by an artist: you'll have to select album by album one at a time - well, it depends how your songs organized, but usually they organized like artist -> album. But the point is the same.
Playlist - even so DLNA access officially supports playlist you will have tough time to use them because 2000 limit and a folder for playlists is going to be empty. Direct access does not have an option for playlists.
3)Tiff's - no.
Jpeg's - yes resolution permitted. But, again, using DLNA you have 2000 limit. And a quality of pictures is terrible: simply unwatchable. With direct access - there is no background music option, but the quality is fine.

I'm using DLNA and have my music and pictures served to the 390 by TwonkyMedia running on my server (i.e. my old PC) and I have none of these restrictions/issues.

What server are you using?
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post #3669 of 6863
11/19/09 at 12:46pm
Now that the price of these players are dropping I'm thinking about getting off the fence and jumping into the big Blu puddle. I have searched this thread and there is not a lot of input one a couple of questions I have.

1) How is the picture quality of SD-DVD's upconverted by this player?

2) How is the layer change of SD-DVD's? More than a second and it starts to bother me (nit picky yes) so a fast layer change is important.

Thanks for your answers, I know that these questions probably have been answered before but I greatly appreciate it.

Regards,

RTROSE
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post #3670 of 6863
11/19/09 at 12:47pm
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Originally Posted by davelr View Post

2. Have any of you had problems with online FW downloads on slow lines?

I've had firmware download problems on a fast line. I've got a 25MB FIOS connection and my 390 is hardwired to the router. The couple of times I've downloaded firmware it's taken a few attempts.
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post #3671 of 6863
11/19/09 at 1:08pm
Hello, I'm new to the forum. I'm very interested in the BD390 player in the US but after 32 pages of reading, I just have to ask my question. Guess we'll see if I get it answered before I get to the final page.

Does this player allow .avi files encoded with xvid and not divx over the network or thru USB?

Thanks

Disregard my question.

Answer found on page 36.
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post #3672 of 6863
11/19/09 at 1:14pm
[quote=another schmo;17565879]
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Originally Posted by davelr View Post

2. Have any of you had problems with online FW downloads on slow lines?/QUOTE]

I've had firmware download problems on a fast line. I've got a 25MB FIOS connection and my 390 is hardwired to the router. The couple of times I've downloaded firmware it's taken a few attempts.

I've had no problems with firmware updates with my BD390 and a FIOS 25mbs connection. The firmware updates were extremely quick and only took one try.
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post #3673 of 6863
11/19/09 at 1:19pm
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Originally Posted by another schmo View Post

I'm using DLNA and have my music and pictures served to the 390 by TwonkyMedia running on my server (i.e. my old PC) and I have none of these restrictions/issues.

What server are you using?

Tversity, Nero MediaHome Essential, WMP11, HP MediaVault.
Picture quality depends: Nero is fine, the rest - no, the most important "no" on MediaVault since it's NAS.
You don't have 2000 limit? You can see tiff's? You have one-of-a-kind 390. Good for you. Even LG doesn't have one. Where did you get it?
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post #3674 of 6863
11/19/09 at 1:23pm
[quote=aaronwt;17566070]
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Originally Posted by another schmo View Post


I've had no problems with firmware updates with my BD390 and a FIOS 25mbs connection. The firmware updates were extremely quick and only took one try.

I had no problems with FW updating over 1Mbit/s connection - made it successfully 3 times.
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post #3675 of 6863
11/19/09 at 3:45pm
If a user would like to see what the 390/370 can play try some of these:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showp...81&postcount=1

and this:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showp...24&postcount=1
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post #3676 of 6863
11/19/09 at 3:55pm
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Originally Posted by beekermartin View Post

I picked up a 370 today from BB to try out. I already have a Samsung 1590 and Panasonic 60. I am trying to find a player that I like as much as the 60 but that has Netflix streaming. I hope the 370 is it.

I've only used the 1590 for a few days but I don't think I'll be keeping it. The fan is audble from across the room. I am using this in a bedroom so I want a quiet player. I was very happy when I plugged the 370 in. It is almost dead quiet. It is so quiet that I took the cover off to see if there is a fan. I was happy to see there isn't one! The drive is also very quiet. I only have a cd and dvd with me at work but I hope the drive is just as quiet with a BR.

If the PQ and overall performance is as good as the 60 then I'll be keeping it.

Any tips for when I install it? Should I update the firmware? If so should I do it online or use a cd/usb stick? I have had good luck updating firmware with the 60 and 1590 over the internet.

I have a 390 - it's a great player (both SD and BR quality) very happy with it.
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post #3677 of 6863
11/19/09 at 4:56pm
Thanks for the feedback. Ptsenter - thanks for illuminating my "duh" moment on the FW file update.

Sproadic connection issue is due to the d-Link DIR-655 router that I use. Taking Ptsenter's suggestion I reasearched back in the thread and found comments about this problem with d-Link routers.

As it turns out, the problem is with the d-Link's DNS relay, but it isn't necessary to turn the relay off. You can leave it on for all the other devices on the network.

On the LG you need to provide your ISP's hard DNS IP addresses. If they've both a primary and secondary, use both. You don't have to do FW updates on the router (some of the later ones are pretty sketchy).

Thanks again.
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post #3678 of 6863
11/19/09 at 7:17pm
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Originally Posted by aaronwt View Post

The LGBD390 does not have internal storage(well it has 1GB but that is required to be reserved for BD Live content to be profile 2.0 compliant)

It is a streaming box, it streams the HDX titles. You would need a VUDU box(BX100?) that has a hard drive to be able to download and view at a later time. And those are capped at a 4mbs download speed so it takes 4 to 5 hours for a typical HDX title.

You might try changing the DNS servers IP addresses in the BD390 menu. I set mine for what FIOS uses and it made the difference from it dropping down occasionally to never dropping from HDX.

Thanks Aaron!
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post #3679 of 6863
11/19/09 at 9:16pm
Does anyone find the screensaver "auto-shutdown" a bit annoying? After like 5 minutes of inactivity, the players shuts itself down. I get the whole save energy thing and that we're in an economic recession, but it's an annoying feature... O_o
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post #3680 of 6863
11/19/09 at 9:18pm
[quote=aaronwt;17566070]
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Originally Posted by another schmo View Post


I've had no problems with firmware updates with my BD390 and a FIOS 25mbs connection. The firmware updates were extremely quick and only took one try.

25mbps? How much you paying per month?
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post #3681 of 6863
11/19/09 at 10:39pm
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Originally Posted by Xplosive View Post


25mbps? How much you paying per month?

It's bundled in with TV and phone but I'd guess it's around $40/mo.
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post #3682 of 6863
11/19/09 at 11:38pm
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Originally Posted by ptsenter View Post

You don't have 2000 limit? You can see tiff's? You have one-of-a-kind 390. Good for you. Even LG doesn't have one. Where did you get it?

I'm finding your meaning hard to figure between all of the smilies.

I'm not familiar with this 2,000 limit. I've got almost 23,000 songs/MP3's. I'm using TwonkyMedia which in turn is using my iTunes xml file for its info. I don't have any folders with more than 2,000 entries but I would think if you did your organization isn't very good. With compilation support turned on I've got 931 artists so the second level would have a few more folders than that.

Don't really bother with tiffs but the picture quality from my jpegs (taken with a 7 megapixel Canon Elph) is quite good.
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post #3683 of 6863
11/20/09 at 4:46am
i just picked up the 370 last night, and installed the latest fw, i still can not play star trek, i had a samsung initially and it was having fits playing it so i bought this player and still cant play it, so im thinking i obviously now have a bad disc, is anyone else having problems with this disc

on a side note my samsung had issues with the two latest pixar discs as well which was another reason i switch and this player plays them now flawlessly
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post #3684 of 6863
11/20/09 at 5:11am
[quote=Xplosive;17568763]
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Originally Posted by aaronwt View Post


25mbps? How much you paying per month?

Mine is bundled with cell service and their Extreme HD tier for $125 a month.

Prior to my bundle I was paying $90 a month for the 50/20 tier, so I'm pleased with my price difference. Although I do wish the speed was 35/25 like they have in the NY/NJ area instead of the 25/15 they have here.

In the NY/NJ area they get what I have and the faster speed for around $105 a month.
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post #3685 of 6863
11/20/09 at 6:52am
I've searched this thread and haven't seen this issue posted. I apologize if I've overlooked a post. My problem is that when I play movie files (.avi or mp4) via Nero, Tversity or when directly connected to the USB port, the video plays, but there is no audio at all. Any suggestions?
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post #3686 of 6863
11/20/09 at 6:55am
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Originally Posted by wp34gsh View Post

i just picked up the 370 last night, and installed the latest fw, i still can not play star trek

I've run Star Trek through my 370 several times now. Also on latest firmware. Definitely no issues.
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post #3687 of 6863
11/20/09 at 7:02am
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Originally Posted by philnerd View Post

I've run Star Trek through my 370 several times now. Also on latest firmware. Definitely no issues.

Same here. The first night I played ST was on whatever FW the unit shipped with. I got it updated the next day, and watched ST again, so it could very well be a bad disc.
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post #3688 of 6863
11/20/09 at 7:06am
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Originally Posted by davelr View Post

Thanks for the feedback. Ptsenter - thanks for illuminating my "duh" moment on the FW file update.

Sproadic connection issue is due to the d-Link DIR-655 router that I use. Taking Ptsenter's suggestion I reasearched back in the thread and found comments about this problem with d-Link routers.

As it turns out, the problem is with the d-Link's DNS relay, but it isn't necessary to turn the relay off. You can leave it on for all the other devices on the network.

On the LG you need to provide your ISP's hard DNS IP addresses. If they've both a primary and secondary, use both. You don't have to do FW updates on the router (some of the later ones are pretty sketchy).

Thanks again.

This is the same router I use. My only problem with the 390 so far is trying to stream HD movies via Netflix. They stutter and I get no sound. I'll try another one of my routers today to see if that fixes the issue. Then again, I can stream HD trailers from Vudu just fine, so that doesn't really scream router issue to me. This is on a 10mb connection.
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post #3689 of 6863
11/20/09 at 7:29am
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Originally Posted by sb1 View Post

This is the same router I use. My only problem with the 390 so far is trying to stream HD movies via Netflix. They stutter and I get no sound. I'll try another one of my routers today to see if that fixes the issue. Then again, I can stream HD trailers from Vudu just fine, so that doesn't really scream router issue to me. This is on a 10mb connection.

I noted a few other comments about HD issues as well. I couldn't comment since with a 1.5M DSL line I'm happy just to get movies streaming at all. We'll probably upgrade next year but will probably be stuck with DSL as FIOS isn't available in our neighborhood. Let me know if a different router gives any different results. Thanks
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post #3690 of 6863
11/20/09 at 7:43am
We attempted to watch Gone Baby Gone last night (from Netflix) and found that it kept freezing at the same spot in Ch 4 (about 21:00). I checked the disc and it was pristine - not a scratch on it.

Has anyone watched this disc successfully?
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