LG BH100 599.99 at Circuit City

I know certain people said that LG was garbage, but is this a good deal or not? It is an on line deal only.

this unit will work, but it is buggy...price is a little steep though...eBay is cheaper...

the current model is the LG BH200...

save your pennies and buy the Samsung dual format player

[Post edited by r-u-serious on Feb 21, 2008]

If I remember correctly the LG combo players did not play the interactive (HDi) features on HD DVD's but DID play the movies. I don't know if it affected both models so you may have to do some research. I would wait until Samsung or someone else came out with a solid combo player or just buy a bluray player with profile 2.0 (when available) and the prices drop to your liking.

With regards to the BH200, I'm curious about its Blu Ray profile.

I've went to their site earlier today and looked at the specifications page. There was no indication of any profile conformance on their specs page (unless I missed it). The system does have an Ethernet port which of course hints at the capability.

So I just went to Pioneer's site and looked at the BDP-95FD again no mention of supported Blu Ray profiles.

So I'm going to make the assumption that I'm a bit further knowledged then Joe Consumer, how does one know what profile these players support (other then of course coming to these message boards and asking).

Uni

Thanks guys for the information.

BH-200 has bewen going as low as $599. on amazon. Thought I'd share that along.

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So I just went to Pioneer's site and looked at the BDP-95FD again no mention of supported Blu Ray profiles.

If you ask me, the more the keep people ignorant of the whole Blu-Ray profile deal, the less trouble they will have selling players. It was a bad idea to not have a ready spec. This may be one of the issues that will ultimately shoot Blu-Ray in the foot. Once word gets out that not ALL players will play ALL movies people will be more and more hesitant to buy.

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Once word gets out that not ALL players will play ALL movies people will be more and more hesitant to buy.

In fairness to BR, the movies will play. The profiles relate to the "special feature" capabilities that the player will have (PIP, Internet Interactivity).

I certainly agree that the profile adds confusion within the format itself and could slow the adoption rate. However, as a PS3 owner I am considering picking up a second stand alone player. I'll hold off for the prices to drop and the profiles to match but like I said, at this point in time even if there was a BR 2.0 system out there, I'd have a tough time finding it.

spoonard that is happening now. The majority of the Blu supporters are buying the PS3, not any of the stand alone players. SONY used their fans as guiny pigs.

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Once word gets out that not ALL players will play ALL movies people will be more and more hesitant to buy.

A particular player not being able to play a particular movie has nothing to do with "Profile specs". It was a requirement from the beginning that all movie titles with profile 1.1 or 2.0 features offer backwards compatibility for profile 1.0 players. This seems to have held up to be true in nearly all cases, the exception taken care of with firmware upgrades. A more common problem with Samsung models in particular is the playback of a couple of Fox titles that had incompatible BD+ features. I'm uncertain whether these player's issues with these movies have been addressed with a firmware update yet or not...