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Comment from john cummings
Time November 8, 2010 at 8:04 am

Rated down because of the difficulty and inconsistency of using the Wi-Fi. Even though signal is shown to be excellent, access to the network and streaming the movie library is intermittent.

I also notice that the picture is dark compared to playing the same movie through the X-Box using the same kind of network connection.

It plays Blu-Rays fine –however I have an older Samsung that performs that function.

Rating: 3 / 5

Comment from AgentOneArm
Time November 8, 2010 at 9:49 am

Great Blu-ray player. Picture quality is awesome, 3D is fantastic and this thing even pauses automatically if you change inputs on the TV (HDMI input, douts if it works for others).
Rating: 5 / 5

Comment from Carl
Time November 8, 2010 at 11:55 am

I was looking for a feature packed 3D blu-ray player that offerd wireless connectivity to my home network. The BX580 fit the bill to a “T”. It has lots of features and for the money I don’t think that it can be beat. I liked the product so much that I bought another one for a second entertainment system. Previous review critized usb port on face of unit. I have not found that to be a problem. Easy to access and usually this connection is for a short period and not permanent anyway. 3D works great too.
Rating: 5 / 5

Comment from Charlie
Time November 8, 2010 at 2:37 pm

I am mostly pleased with this Blu-ray player’s features and performance. I have it connected via HDMI to a 3D-capable AV receiver and as expected it does a great job playing Blu-ray DVD’s as well as upconverting standard DVD’s. I haven’t been able to test the 3D capability because I’m still undecided on a 3D TV. The networking capability works very well; I had no trouble connecting to my secure wireless-N network, but the wireless connection speed seems much lower than I’m getting on my notebook, probably due to the LG player being buried in a cabinet with other electronics. This means that streaming from the internet or a PC via DLNA is somewhat slow, and wired Ethernet would be advisable if you do heavy media streaming. Standard YouTube video streaming, however, worked pretty well due to the lower bandwidth requirement.

The only thing keeping me from giving this unit 5 stars is that the photo display capability has a serious limitation that is not documented and has not been remedied by LG tech support. In spite of the advice to keep JPEG’s below 3000 by 3000 pixels (24 bits/pixels), I found that the image will not display properly if the file size exceeds 3.0 MB, regardless of pixel dimension. This problem was duplicated by LG tech support on images that I supplied them, but although they stated their engineers were working on the problem, it has not been fixed in over two months. This is probably not something that most people will care about, but if you want to stream photos from your PC for slide shows on your hi-def TV, the BX580 would be a good way to do it if it worked properly with normal JPEG files.

All in all, a very nice unit, especially considering the substantial discount price that is available on Amazon!
Rating: 4 / 5

Comment from Bach Le
Time November 8, 2010 at 3:06 pm

I got this as part of a deal when purchased with a 3D tv. This player has a feature called Homelink which allows you to play media off a network drive. I have a NAS that’s on the network and this player plays everything I’ve thrown at it flawlessly. Its allowing me to move the mac mini I have to the bedroom since I no longer need a media pc. I can’t attest to the 3d blu ray playback since there seems to be a lack of 3D blu ray discs but I’m impressed so far with what I’ve seen.
Rating: 5 / 5