LG BD370 Blu-ray player

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By Ty Pendlebury, CNET.com.au
Mar 25, 2009

It's taken a couple of years, but it seems Blu-ray is finally gaining some ground as a format. Not only are decent movies finally coming out, the price and feature set of players have made them more compelling as well. Of course, the Sony PlayStation 3 still looms like the Close Encounters of the Third Kind mothership over the whole preceding, but fabulous little players like the LG BD370 are making the step toward Blu-ray that much more enticing.

Editors' note:

This review is based on evaluations conducted by our sister site CNET.com.au. Review ratings on similar products may differ due to differences in regional market trends and competing product lineups.

Design

For a company that prides itself on the design of its televisions, we found the BD370 to be curiously stodgy. While in essence most Blu-ray players look the same--squat boxes with glossy fronts--LG has tried to "pep up" the look of its player with a very 1980's-looking Power/Play button in the middle.

While the build is mostly solid, it's the disc tray which we have the most issues with. The tray looks (and probably is) like the one you'd find on a computer disc drive. It also opens and closes with some difficulty--a bit more spit and polish would have helped here.

The remote, on the other hand, is great. All the necessary functions are close at hand and it has the faux leather top that we liked on previous remotes.

Tags: TV, disc, computer disc, LG Electronics Inc., computer

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