LG DN898 1080p Upconverting DVD Player

by LG

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.4 x 16.9 x 7.7 inches ; 4.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0018YSK0E
• Item model number: DN898
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,004 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

1080P DVD Player, USB Media Plus

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

45 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Alright player. Can't do pillarboxing., July 29, 2009

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psycoking - See all my reviews

This review is from: LG DN898 1080p Upconverting DVD Player (Electronics)

The LG DN898 is a very good player with a lot of great features: it does a good job of upscaling DVDs, it can output at a full 1080p, it supports playback of.mpeg, .avi (xvid/divx) and .srt files, and it can read from most recordable DVD formats as well as from USB. For the most part I have had a very good experience with this player and I would have rated it better if I had not discovered one glaring flaw. The LG DN898 is incapable of displaying 4:3 content in a pillarbox on a 16:9 screen. A pillarbox is the widescreen TV equivalent of a letterbox, the two black bars that appear on the top and bottom of a regular TV screen when playing a movie recorded in widescreen (16:9) format, only on a widescreen TV these bars appear as two black pillars on the left and right sides of the screen when playing fullscreen (4:3) content. This means that any video recorded in a 4:3 aspect ratio will be automatically stretched to fill the screen on a widescreen TV. If you prefer to have your video stretched to fit the screen then this shouldn't be a problem to you, in which case this player might be a good choice. However, if you prefer to watch video in its original aspect ratio then this is not the player for you. I have used other upconverting DVD players that let you choose whether or not you want to stretch the video. Considering the price of this player I am a bit disappointed that the LG DN898 does not offer this option.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid upconverting DVD player, February 11, 2009

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SJC (MA, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: LG DN898 1080p Upconverting DVD Player (Electronics)

Purchased a LG 47" LCD HDTV for my new apartment and needed a new DVD player to go along with it. I like the LG brand (bought girlfriend a separate LCD HDTV a year ago and it's great) so I wanted to get an upconverting DVD player to match the TV. Not in the market for a BlueRay yet so this was a happy alternative. Provides great clarity on its big sister TV. No clock on the front of the DVD player but I was buying a dvd player, not a clock so I didn't care about that. The remote also controls my LG tv (not sure if it controls all TV brands once programmed). Remote is a little busy with lots of buttons and with numerous small print labels to match. The 'zoom' function came in handy on some DVDs that didn't stretch well on the screen or that had black bars on the sides.

Easy to set up, easy to use, nice looking unit. As a fully functioning upconverting DVD player, it gets the job done.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SIMPLY EXCELLENT - FULL FEATURED DVD PLAYER, August 4, 2009

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Mike Silverman (Milford, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LG DN898 1080p Upconverting DVD Player (Electronics)

An excellent DVD player. I can find nothing wrong with this unit. It plays all my DVD's and CD and CD/RW disks perfectly. The initial load time is quick and the setting options are very convenient and easy to understand. If you have an older television , as I do, ( I have a 20 inch Panasonic television that I bought about 10 years ago) you can even choose to set the aspect ratio to play widescreen movies at a normal television screen size. The unit has worked excellently from the start, no freezing or skipping, and plays both new releases and old movies with the same crystal clarity and clean audio. It has a built in memory feature that allows you to power off the unit. So if you were to stop a movie at any time at any spot and then press the power switch from the remote to shut off the player, the next time you press the power button on the DVD player, all you have to do is press "play" and the DVD will start playing from the exact place you stopped it. Very very convenient. The player has a wide range of audio options for PCM and surround sound, and has an HDMI cable connection slot for High Definition TV's. It has a built in screen saver that will start if the unit is left idle in the "stop" position for more than 5 minutes, and then if the screen saver runs more than 5 minutes the unit will power itself off. But that's fine since when you choose to Power it up again, it will pick up viewing the DVD wherever you had stopped it. The unit itself is very slim and very quiet. There is only a very slight spinning sound initially as it's loading, then it is whisper quiet during play. Even the remote is well designed. This is the first DVD player I've had with a remote that only needs one AAA battery. The remote has buttons laid out in sections that are easy to use without having to read the function printed on them, making it handy to operate in a darkened room. At first I was not sure about the LG brand since I had never heard of it before. But I was very pleasantly surprised at how sophisticated and well designed it is. Much better than the Toshiba brands I have tried and even better than some of the Sony units. I highly recommend this DVD player.

- Mike S.