LG BD590 250GB HD Network Blu-ray Disc Player

by LG

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11 x 16.9 x 2 inches ; 7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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• ASIN: B0036WT1V8
• Item model number: BD590
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (192 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,271 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #79 in Electronics > Televisions & Video > Blu-ray Players & Recorders > Blu-ray Players

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Introducing the first Blu-Ray Disc™ Player that can store and stream! The BD590 gives you the best of the Internet with wireless access to NetCast, but that’s not all. With a 250GB hard drive, all your favorite entertainment can live in one place, letting you instantly enjoy music, photos, home videos and HD VOD from Vudu™. When one device can deliver this many home entertainment options, you really have to ask—is it a Blu-Ray Disc™ Player, or something better?

Innovative Features Store it. Stream it. Keep it. Your media can finally live in one place. An integrated 250GB hard drive lets you store videos, movies, music and HD VOD content from Vudu™ on your Network Blu-Ray Disc™ Player, for instant access anytime you want. Less Clutter. More Possibilities. Cut loose from messy wires. Integrated WiFi Connecticity allows you to take advantage of NetCast™ Entertainment Access from any available Wi-FI connection, anywhere in its range. Entertainment On Tap The end of "there’s nothing on." NetCast™ Entertainment Access lets you stream instant, and virtually endless, entertainment from Netflix®, Vudu™, CinemaNow™, Pandora®, YouTube™, Picasa™ and AccuWeather® direct to your TV from the Internet- no computer required. The Feature Is Yours Access videos, photos and music from your home network through this DLNA certified media player. This feature brings digital entertainment libraries within easy reach to the big screen. Enjoy It at It's Best Make the most of your HDTV. Blu-Ray Disc™ playback delivers exceptional Full 1080p video performance. Making Old Just Like New No need to go out and replace your old DVD collection. Even they look better on Blu-Ray. Standard DVD Up-Scaling delivers exceptional image quality from standard DVDs with 1080p Up-Scaling via HDMI™ output. Don’t just hear it. Feel it. Great picture needs great sound. Get Superior Audio Performance that supports surround sound up to 7.1 channels with Dolby® Digital Plus, Dolby® TrueHD and dts-HD Advanced Digital Out technologies. Don’t Wait To Watch A quick-opening tray- ready to play before you hit the couch. Memories on the big screen Want to view a highlight reel of the family vacation in the comfort of your living room? USB Media Host lets you view family photos, and listen to music from USB storage devices. All In One Are your remote controls taking over your living room? Now with SimpLink™ you can easily set up and control all of your HDMI™ connected LG devices with just one remote. Export Full Digital Sound Deliver full digital sound quality from your Blu-Ray Disc™ player to your television with optical and coaxial audio output connectivity. Multi-compatible Don’t you hate it when newer devices aren’t compatible with older components? A discrete 7.1 channel means the BD590 can still operate with older audio-video receivers.

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Media Library
The Media Library integrated hard drive allows for easy storage and instant playback of music, photos, personal videos and VOD content available through the Vudu™ movie service. The 250GB internal hard drive stores up to 70 HD movies.

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NetCast™ Entertainment Access Now buying a Blu-Ray Disc™ player from LG can also mean getting access to virtually endless entertainment and services from the Internet. Want to watch your favorite action film? If you have an LG Network Blu-Ray Disc™ Player with NetCast™ Entertainment Access and an Internet connection, select an onscreen service and you’ll be enjoying it in moments. Tapping into virtually endless entertainment from the Internet no longer requires a computer or messy wires. This is the future of entertainment, and it’s available now with LG.

Roxio CinemaNow™ Now Hollywood’s latest hits can be viewed any time you want. With CinemaNow™, LG consumers can get instant access to pay-per-view movies from major studios directly to any LG Network Blu-Ray Disc™ Player. Find major release titles, along with broadcast and cable television programs. The entire premium content catalog can be browsed directly and selections can be watched instantly. CinemaNow™ and LG have redefined what can be expected of digitally available entertainment.

Netflix® Make the most of the extensive offerings on Netflix®. Users with a subscription can sit back and enjoy unlimited instant access to over 12,000 Netflix® movies and TV episodes* streamed directly to their TV set. Most movies and TV episodes appear in standard definition and many selections are not new releases. Netflix® subscription required and sold separately.

YouTube™ Now you can watch everything on YouTube™ right in your living room. Blu-ray players with NetCast™ give you unlimited, direct access to the millions of Web videos available through YouTube™, whenever you want them. All you need is an active Internet connection. Watch that one fellow making a fool of himself over and over again.

Vudu™ If you want major studio releases in Full HD 1080p and Dolby® Digital Plus sound, Vudu™ is the only place you’ll find it. With 20,000 HD titles available, and 2,000 in Blu-ray-quality HDX format, there’s no better source for streaming HD movies on NetCast™.

Pandora® Listen to a radio station made just for you. By entering artist or song information, Pandora® will generate a playlist of similar recommendations. Your new favorite song is waiting.

Picasa™ Edit digital photos so they look their best when shared on your television screen, and create galleries and slideshows for easy organization any time you want to enjoy them.

Accuweather® Get up to the minute weather updates, plus forecast information to help plan ahead.

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Standard DVD Up-Scaling
It’s not just Blu-Ray Discs that look great on a Blu-Ray Disc™ Player. Standard DVD Up-Scaling delivers exceptional image quality from standard DVDs to near full HD picture quality. That means even your older movies and shows look better on an LG Network Blu-Ray Disc™ Player.

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Superior Audio Performance
Blu-ray lets you enjoy the best sound available from your movies and shows. Supports surround sound up to 7.1 channels with Dolby® Digital Plus, Dolby® TrueHD and dts-HD Advanced Digital Out technologies.

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USB 2.0 Media Host Bring your digital library to life on your television with USB 2.0 Media Host. View family photos, watch videos and listen to music from USB storage devices.

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SimpLink™
Are your remote controls taking over the living room?  Now with SimpLink™, you can easily set up and control all of your HDMI™ connected LG devices with just one remote.

Product 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. This is fully loaded with a 250GB Media Library that lets you store your music, photos and HD movies you purchase from Vudu. This is something better than Blu-ray.

Customer Reviews

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291 of 306 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best BD player on the market to play Blu-rays and other stuff?, February 28, 2010

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B. Lowenberg "Brad" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LG BD590 250GB HD Network Blu-ray Disc Player (Electronics)

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.

117 of 121 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Blu-Ray Player with a wide array of internet entertainment options, February 27, 2010

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Peter Singh (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LG BD590 250GB HD Network Blu-ray Disc Player (Electronics)

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.

85 of 87 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic but a bit pricey should be price at $300, March 13, 2010

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redrover (NY, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LG BD590 250GB HD Network Blu-ray Disc Player (Electronics)

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.