LG DN898 1080p Upconverting DVD Player

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.4 x 16.9 x 7.7 inches ; 5.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0018YSK0E
• Item model number: DN898
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,166 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)

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• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 5, 2008

Product Description

Product Description

1080P DVD Player, USB Media Plus

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	SJC (MA, USA) - See all my reviews

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.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	psycoking - See all my reviews

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid performer, January 28, 2009

By	Mark Sullivan (Charlotte, NC USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've been very pleased with the performance of this DVD player so far. It's had no problems with any of the commercial DVDs I've played, and I like the zoom functions. I'm using it with a standard TV, so I can't comment on the upconverting quality. The main problem I've had with DVD players in the past has been failure after a year or so of light use; it's too soon to know if this one will be an exception. So far, so good.