BD370/390 LG Blu-ray player Master/Owners thread - Page 17

my bd-5 contained a DTS-MA track and the 390 displayed that it did play it on the info dispaly(the sound was not hooked up at the store).
Will try to sample a mkv with DTS-MA soon...

Oppo: 16 Seconds

To provide peripheral comparison, here are the load times of the Pioneer BDP-51FD:

Casino Royale:
to Sony intro screen: 42 seconds
Pirates I:
To Gold Medallion: 49 seconds
To Disney:1 min 13 seconds
Dark Knight
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I'm not sure about the answer to your question..I'd say they are very similar but I didnt realize the 51F took such a long time to load |:

Though I haven't tried all of my mkv files, most of them if not all play either DTS or Stereo through my WD HD device, i haven't had time to test all of them through the LG, the ones that I have tried played the audio fine, though I will say one thing, you need to set display settings on LG to 16:9 Original not 16:9 wide to get correct aspect ratio. If you set it to 16:9 wide it will fill the entire screen.

Relax, i'm sure that LG had updated the player before it left the factory. Early on in this thread people said that they needed to update the firmware, they probably just got an early run.

Some of the video files will only play if you use an attached external usb device like a pen drive or hard drive. In the manual it explains what types will play from either wireless or an attached device. I can say that it does play all my HD mkv files from USB hard drive. I have also play divx files through wirelessly no problem. If you go to LG site they have a link to the Owners manual, it is in the support area.

you are up to date.

I'd like people who own both the 370 and the 390 to confirm if everybody is experiencing this problem with the angle icon popping up during the film. I was about to buy the 390 but this problem really is a dealbreaker. I'd also like to know if the American 370 has had any new firmware that enables it to read MKV.

I have not seen it yet. I have played no less than 8-9 movies.

Follow up question, for those that have this player.

Does the problem ONLY happen if you push the button on the remote that brings up the icons, making the problem that you CANT make the icons go away once they are on screen?

The post above this one said they watch 8 movies and never had the problem, I am wondering maybe they never pushed the button on the remote during the moves to check.

Do you have the UK or USA or Canada model?

Would anyone be willing to share what settings they are using for picture controls? How much contrast, brightness, color levels, etc. etc. I'm struggling with this and would appreciate knowing what others have found to look best for them. My display is professionally calibrated because I'm no good at it but now I have a player with all of these variables that the PS3 didn't have.

When I switched the BD390 to Custom settings (leaving all of the values at their default setting) both Contrast and Brightness levels matched all of the other players I have used. I checked them via the HD test patterns found here.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...4#post12373254

I did find the Dynamic Contrast setting interesting as increasing it appears to increase the ANSI contrast without adding any visible EE. Also skin tones didn't appear to get harsh as I have seen with other players that offer much the same feature. I have only viewed a few Blu-rays but I'm thinking it might prove valuable down the road. The increased pop adds a little perceived sharpness to my 110 inch image.

Hi Chuck and all the rest.

I have a 390 on order from Amazon and it will be here Wednesday. I have a question for you, or anyone else, if you have time.

I have a 12 Meg DSL wireless B/G modem/router. I also have hooked up a Powerline Adapter system which, according to the Netgear Configuration Utility, is giving me between 122 and 200 Mbps between the three points on that network. (My computer and two Directv DVR's where I do not have wired ethernet.) I do have one Powerline adapter that is unused and available.

The question is am I better off using the wireless G or using the additional Powerline unit to connect to the 390? I can make one more electrical plug available with minimal inconvenience.

It will probably be two weeks until I install the unit since I have an Onkyo TX-SR806 also being delivered, so the wiring will be done all at once and then configure everything after it is all installed and hooked-up.

Thanks.

Has anyone been able to play a MKV/VC-1 file?
TIA,
-chris

I found out today an update for my BD370-P, it went from V4.090.00.24 to V7.127.00.26, but I can't seem to see anything different.

Does anyone knows where to find a description of this new upgrade?

Check a NTFS USB stick or HDD. Maybe it is now supported.

Now others will feeel differently than me, but IMHO I would go with the Powerline adpaters.

I have always felt that wired is just more reliable than wireless, especially when it commes to streaming.

I have the Belkin Powerline Adapters(200MBps limit although, most people say that max out at like 60MBps, or a little less which is obviously ample. But these same people say these things suffer from interferance. Never once experienced it, and think they are talking out of their A**), and am using them with a Samsung 2500.

Never had any problems with the connection either gaing or losing speed, unless there was about 2-3 other people using the computer, another streaming device, etc... all at once.

I say for streaming, use the powerline adapters. especially for someone who wants to game online(this is probably not you) with XBOX360 or the like, wired is the way to go.

Thank you very much for the reply. That's very helpful for me.

Is the LG BD 360 model at Costco Canada's site the same as the BD 370C? (other than cosmetics)
Will it play MKV from USB formatted in NTFS?

Since I haven't bought a BD player yet, I don't know which titles show the angle icon. The only title I heard that does, is the "Star Trek The Original Series Season 1", whenever there's a special effects shot the angle icon supposedly appears so you can choose between the original FX and the new ones. Has anyone who owns this title experienced any problems?

I just bought the 390 and downloaded the 8.x firmware today.

No Angle problems here. It goes away when you select it again.

Thanks. No one has disputed your opinion so far.....

OK, another question.

I currently own an Oppo 981 upscaling DVD player. Do I need to keep it, or are the upscaling capabilities of the 390 sufficient?

No it doesn't, still the same ol' FAT32 only...

Does the BD370 or 390 play standard dvds at 24fps? Also, how well or poorly does it do in upconverting standard dvds? I love Blu-rays and I wish everything was available on them, but I still have a LOT of stuff on standard dvd. Thanks!

It doesn't. It switches from 24fps (at the menu) to 60fps as soon as the DVD (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow) starts playing. As to how well it upscales I never do DVDs in my Blu-ray players so I can't help there. I will say Blu-rays look very nice however.

no.

Picked up the 390 yesterday, was on sale at BB and i even got 10% off due to a hole in the box(LOL)--so after bringing it home was no problem hooking up, basic hookup( HDMI cable to TV)--setup wireless hookup using wep128 security, entered passphrase(not case senestive) and no problem, Went to my Netflix account found the 390 and got Netflix's password, entered it and good to go, Youtube came up with their basic selections, you Can enter your name and password to get to your account and see your favorites. Installed Nero Mediahome on computer, accessing it from 390 was no problem, you might need to streamline your shared files on computer. To my surprise, the 390 played all my AVI files, found and played my jpeg files and found and displayed very nicely all my 800+ albums(it took about 45 minutes to index the music). Something else I found to my great surprise is that my Xbox 360 can use the Nero Server to play the AVI's and most of my jpeg files(depending on size). So if your xbox and the 390 are in different parts of the home this is very usefull. It didn't play the mps through the nero server or I just didn't give it time to index all the songs(over 8000). Oh yea, the Blu Ray disc look exceptional, LOL
I very pleased---my Network is growing up'

PS-there was a firmware update it took care of automatically
Windows Xp
Samsung 50in 720p plasma
Wireless Netgear 110 extended range Router

You obviously havn't played or own any SD (Standard Definition) movies that have that feature. The angle icon and other on-screen messages (Play, FF, Rew, Pause, Zoom, etc, icons) cannot be turned off on the 390. If you do own a SD movie with an alternate angle and the icon has not popped up during the movie (where the alternate angle comes into play) than you have a defective player. Please list the so called 8-9 SD movies that you say you own, and have played THAT HAVE an alternate angle. I am willing to bet that none of the SD movies that you have played had an alternate angle and that's why you havn't seen the icon pop up!

I have tested the 390 with the SD "Special Edition" of James Bond "Tomorrow Never Dies", and have CONFIRMED that the angle icon pops up throught the whole movie during the scenes when alterate angle #2 is available to display a storyboard concept option ontop of the original video.

Just about every SD/BD player these days offers a way to turn off either "On Screen Messages" or "Angle Icon" togeather or by themselfs. The 390 offers neither. Watching a SD movie with an alternate angle is a PITA with the 390, because the angle icon keeps popping up during the movie. This is very distracting. I also experianced "brief" combing artifacts on scenes that the 390's de-interlacer could not handle (like bad edits). Just play "The Making Of The Big Lobowski", from the older SD/DVD of The Big Lobowski. This is the older Special Edition DVD that came in a yellow box cover. You can see combing in the begining scene of this documentry when john goodman throws his hand up in a clip of him in the parking lot.

This player is no way close to being as good as you keep claiming it to be. The slide out draw is so cheap that it is barley hanging on. I ask that anyone (who does not believe me) go out to there local Best Buy store, plug in the demo and open the draw to see this for themselves. The up and down movement is not of solid build quality!

I will say this though for the 390, if the above problems are of no concern to you... It does have a great zoom, lots of picture tweaking options, and runs a noticably "hotter" picture (which can be very mis-leading) in that one will think there seeing a better picture when doing player comparisons. It also allows for you tube and other online features, and i found that the wireless firmware update worked well. Due to the above mentioned lack of a way to disable the "on screen messages" & "angle icon", i ended up returning mine.

Actually it's attached quite nicely if you look at the design. It's constructed so the tray's slide out mechanism has some flex. From experience I find it far superior to the OPPO's I owned which made quiet grinding noises while playing discs. Also it vibrates considerably less than the Pioneers 51/51FD during initial loading and seeks. I have seen this same design on many high-end computer disc drives.