If you want stunning Full HD 1080p and the unlimited possibilties of wireless streaming entertainment, you've found it with the BD570 Network Blu-ray Disc Player. With NetCast Entertainment Access and Integrated Wi-Fi Connectivity, you get thousands of movies, shows and online videos straight to your TV from your wireless Internet connection at home. This is a Blu-ray Disc player that delivers the best in HD, while setting your entertainment free in more ways than one.
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Upgraded to Blu-ray from my old OPPO. So far, (day 4) super impressed with the image quality of the LG BD570. Standard DVD playback eliminates this weird digital blue haze in dark scenes that the old OPPO produces. So that’s cool.
Video quality of a Blu-ray disc is great, but I’ve only watched one movie so far.
But the part about this player that I love is the wireless connection to the internet. Netflix HD movies stream perfectly and the image is amazing. Totally impressed that this is streamed content! And at no add’l cost to me…(already have a netflix account)
Pandora quality is great as well.
So thumbs up on DVD/Blu-ray playback and on streaming content wirelessly sans distortion or delay!
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I got this player last evening, and am very pleased with it, so far. The first thing I liked was its small size — just 1.7″ tall and 8″ deep. It’s also simple and understated in appearance; I like the flip-down front panel.
I was able to connect to my wireless router very quickly with no problems whatsoever. I was slightly worried about how stable the connection would be, since my router is upstairs and on the other side of the house, but I watched an entire Netflix movie with no hitches or hesitation whatsoever, and with excellent image and audio quality. I also listened to Pandora, watched a YouTube video and played a portion of a DVD (non-Blu-Ray), and all worked beautifully. I haven’t yet watched a Blu-Ray DVD with this player, but I expect that to work fine, as well.
I’m very happy with this player, its features and price. No complaints so far!
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Pro:
– High quality Blu-ray play
– The best player you can get if you do not have Home Theater PC attached to your HDTV, because of the extra features
– very easy Wi-Fi, Netflix, Pandora, Picasa, Youtube setup
– very easy setup to connect to your home network. It finds right away the shared drives and then you can play everything from there
– strait forward play of files on external drive (HDD or Flash) attached via the USB port.
– plays everything, this is real DLNA. What is the point of having DLNA on Sony if it does not recognize 95% of all formats.
– plays subtitles in different code pages (for foreign language subtitles; if you ever need this).
– Firmware upgrade is as simple as possible – just confirm that you want the upgrade and that’s it
Cons:
– Couldn’t find any way to play Youtube videos in high definition. This is the major issue so far, hopefully this important feature will be added in future firmware release
– While viewing and zooming pictures on Picasa or from an external drive, noticed that the quality is better when I view the same zoomed pictures on my PC (connected to the same HDTV). If you do not zoom the difference in quality is hardly visible.
– While playing movies from the home network (in my case – High Def MPEG4 .mkv files) the controls (FF, stop, etc.) do not seem to work well. Update: Found the solution – I was using slow Wi-Fi connection, with wired connection the issue disappeared. If you have 802.11n router this shouldn’t be an issue as well.
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I did a lot of research before getting the 570 and it was well worth the time I spent!
This is about half the size of the Samsung Blu-ray player that I replaced this with. Set up in very very easy and even with wireless network, which took less than 3 minutes to set up, the video streaming quality from Netflix is amazing. For wireless setup, you basically go to the Setup menu, select “Wireless” and it instantaneously finds all networks available. Select your own (enter password, if your wireless needs one) and voila, you are set!
Setting up Netflix was equally easy. You go to Netflix menu and it generates a code. You enter the code in your Netflix, using computer and in abut 5 seconds your queue shows up on TV (the ones that you can stream). Want to find a different movie? Go to your computer and add one, or search on the LG menu on your TV and you are set. Those movies that are marked “HD” truly look like HD. This was an area of concern for me: streaming speed. But I could hardly tell that this was not playing from a Blu-ray disc. You will not be disappointed at all!
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This player comes with the resolution defaulted to 1080I instead of 1080P and has other problems in this area.
Following is the text of a post I put on avforum in a thread on this issue.
###### Another update. LG BD570 will play PAL format DVDs ######
Below is a copy of a review I wrote for a Seekers DVD
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Warning – PAL format, October 26, 2009
Amazon Verified Purchase(What’s this?)
This review is from: WORLD OF THE SEEKERS (PAL/REGION 0) (DVD Audio)
This DVD is advertised as being in NTSC format but the copy I received is in PAL (European) format. Fortunately It will play on a PC using Windows Media Player. Since this was for my wife and she was content to watch it on the computer I didn’t return it. I like the Seekers very much and Judith Durham has one of the all time great voices in POP music. The DVD once we were able to watch it is a loose reenactment of the groups career and all of their top songs are there in either studio or live performances and sometimes both. Audio and video are good. Other than format issues this DVD is well worth owning.
I recently discovered that I can play PAL format DVDs on my new LG-BD570 Blue Ray Player. Works great. Yippee.
##### UPDATE #####
I was fiddling with the player a few minutes ago and discovered that the 1080P problem was fixed. I assume that this was done by a recent microcode update. I tested with all the scenarios listed below and it hung tight with a constant 1080P output through them all. Good job LG. It is nice to know that a company follows up on things. If I could I would now raise my rating to six.
Regarding LG bd570 1080P/1080I issues.
I Think LG support is blowing smoke on this problem. I hooked up my new LG BD570 to my Panasonic S2 series plasma with an HDMI connection. I was aware of the fact that the LG comes with the resolution set to 1080I so I reset it to 1080P. Here is what I found,
1. If nothing is changed, (no power off or HDMI port switch) both BDs and DVDs send a 1080P signal to the TV.
2 If I power either the TV or LG570 off the LG resolution switches to the “ANY
setting and display of the input on the TV shows the signal being sent as
1080I. According to LG the “any” setting automatically adjusts output to the
native resolution of the display as signaled to it by the TV through the
HDMI port. As my TV is native 1080P I am not believing this unless there is
a problem with the TV. I disabled the Viera Link settings on the TV as
Viera link does a bunch of communication to attached devices. This didn’t
help.
3. If I switch the TV input to another HDMI port such as the DVR the LG
switches back to the “any” setting and outputs a 1080I signal.
Bottom Line:
Although Having to cycle through to the setup menu and picture settings on the BD570 to get 1080P output is a pain (a total combination of nearly nearly a dozen key and arrow strokes) I am not going to pursue it any further. The picture from both blu ray and regular DVDs is terrific and in the limited comparisons I have done my non expert eyes can’t detect any differences between 1080I and 1080P outputs.
Other than the above issue I am very happy with the BD570 and the wireless
streaming from Netflix has worked very well.
These are problems that LG should be aware of by now and hopefully they will fix it. My preference would be an option to force whatever output you desire that can only be manually changed.
**** UPDATE ***
After having a few more days to play with this player I am raising my rating from 4 stars to 5 stars. The 1080P thing is still annoying but I have been able to halve the number of keystrokes to change it. Everything else about this player is really first rate. The Netflix streaming has worked flawlessly so far and the onscreen movie selection feature is real nice. Best of all the up conversion of regular DVDs is terrific. In the early part of “The Mission” movie the scenes with the waterfalls are amazing. The Pink Floyd “Pulse” DVD also looks great and of course sounds terrific.
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Wow I amazed!!! I’ve been up for 3 nights testing this with other blu ray players and I really like this one.
I’ve lived with Panasonic bd30. I never really got addicted to it because it never had a pop to it. But the advertisements said it had accurate color and the best at it’s time. Well I picked up a panasonic bmd 65 and lg 550. After having those two next to eachother I was blown away with the LG It was so much sharper and the colors were much brighter. Finally I found what I’ve been seeing in the stores But there was one thing with the 550 it was a digital coax output and I wanted the opitical. I can tell the difference.
I went out and got the bd 570 and I’m in love. I’ve watched Hair Spray the last verson of Rocky, silence of the lambs. in Blu Ray and I couldn’t be happier. I tried some DVD’s Star Trek (oringnal) the color was so deep and picture was very detailed. It was so bright I felt like a strain in my eyes. So I put in in my panasonic It looked more triditional the colors were there but not as bright and the picture was not as detailed. It’s like lg makes these old disks look blu ray. I next tried the Flintstones in the panasonic it looked like how i expected very triditional I was afraid to put in the LG but you know what it looked great it’s sharper and the color is much brighter and i’m beginning to like it. I think I have to get use to it.
Today i put in All in the family in both players. There is less noise in the panasonic but once again it’s duller and the color is not as bright. This is what I got use to. I (owned the panasonic for 2 years dmp 30) But when I put all in the family in the LG and you can see the details and the picture is much sharper which I guess would show the imprefctions of an analog picture A little more. I did see the analog in prefections in the panasonic but it was not as pronouced thats becuase picture is duller and Once again I beginning to like the LG because the pciture is much more detailed and brighter and so is the color.
On newer movies I put in Trading places (still old in this day and age but it was 100 times better quality than all in the family.) the movie played well On both Blu Ray players. Again the picures was sharper on the lg. I couldn’t notice the jaggy lines as I did on all in the family. I’m sure this player will good for all around purposes even DVD’s
Just to go back in time I put in the Honeymooners It actaully looks good in the LG. I’m happy. Yes I had to set noise reduction on my tv. but that is normal for this kind of DVD. But the picture actually looks great
I couldn’t be happier with the LG bd 570. The panasonic may look a little more natural and has less jaggie lines on older dvds but not my much. but the Lg is real sharp and bright so that compensates and you can always put on noice reduction or lower the sharpness. But one you get use to it I really like it. On blu Ray LG blows Panasonic away. (As Im writing this I’m watching trading places and I’m starting to like this better the colors and sharpness is great and really adds to the picture quality. i’d say once I get use to this the DVD will beat the panasonic.
On Blue Ray and Dvd I’M experiening a little discomfort because the whites are so bright. I also have a pioneer Tv where I have the best blacks. So I think I might have to lower the contrast a little But in any case I think after I get used to this I will like the color and whites a bit better. Because the picture is so much more pronouced.
As far as Netflix and all the other on line stuff that works great on the 550 I’m sure it will work the same on this. I just got so blown away with the picture compaired to my old blu ray player that I actually forgot about online but I can’t wait to play with it.
I would recomend this unit highly.
I love this unit. buy it.
UPDATE I’VE HAD THIS UNIT FOR ABOUT A WEEK 4/7/10
I’m going to talk about the streaming. I like it but you have to adjust it. Wirelessly it’s enough to streem netflix and it’s not bad, but at least for this model it’s slow to connect to netflix. wirelessly like 30 sec. (before I made adjustments) wired It connects like in 10-15 sec even though my router is N draft 1 and draft 2 (2.4 and 5 gig) The internal wireless adapter can only recive a 2.4 singal which only amounts to 150 mbps max. Vs draft 2 which is 300 max. Due to the fact I have wep enabled for my wireless G printer that only slows things down more. Strangly enough the BD 550 connected faster but that was wired. So I wired this one and it was better but not as fast as the 550. My computer is super fast so I can figure the processor is slower or something is wrong with the unit. in any case it does not loose singal in Netflix. wired. as far as Wirelessly It did once or twice.
Today I tried Vundu that is an awsum servce 1080P movies. But they get you for for like $5.00 per rental. As a tech I had to try it. On my free trial it connected very fast (even faster than netflix so humm? anyway while watching the movie it kept on buffering while hooked up wired. After getting off the phone with support I opened some ports and on my own I made the Blu Ray player static. It was a lot better for real!! but I kept checking the bar and it was up and down. So I decided to try Cat6 cable (please don’t buy it at radio shack or staples like I did) but I was tired. Vundu is solid now.
There is a part of me that says I’d like to try another machine with the same model to see about this buffering issue or netflix issue but it does not affect the movie and I’m working great now. I LOVE EVERYHING ELSE ABOUT THIS MACHINE. the color is great, the moves looks good, the quality of netflix is good Pandora (internet radio is great) I’m really liking playing DVD’s and Blu Rays in this machine 5 stars.
IF SOMONE CAN COMMENT ABOUT THE CONNECTION TO NETFLIX WIRED OR WIRELESS i’D APPRECATE IT. I’m probley not going to try another machine since I got this one working and I’m tired or testing and benchmarking LOL
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First let me state that I do nothing (I’ll use the term) exotic with the player such as attempting to play self created MKV files (whatever those are) or avi files or connect an HD to the player. My 570 player came defaulted to the 60 Hz format vice 24 and it is connected directly to the TV using HDMI and I’ve experienced zero problems playing Blu-ray disks. Some have reported problems when the player is set to 24 Hz but changing the player to 60 Hz seems to correct those issues. For the record I own, and am delighted with, an LG BD390 which I’ve owned for some 15 months or so. I’ve owned the BD570 for about 8 weeks now and the only hiccup I’ve had with it whatsoever was getting Vudu activated on the BD570 and a two minute telephone call to Vudu corrected that issue. I’ve played a number of Blu-ray DVDs as well as SD format DVDs and have not experienced problems and I judge the 570’s ability to upscale SD format disks to something approach HD as being very good. I will note however that I’ve not tried the Blu-ray movies “Up” or “Terminator Salvation” which according to some reports give the player a problem. We have streamed numerous Netflix movies and we’ve not even experienced any buffering – although I did experience that happen on the 390 once with an HDX formatted movie. We’ve not streamed a lot of movies from Vudu but the few that we have I’ve not experienced any buffering over a wireless network from Verizon’s FiOS 25/15 service. In summary we are delighted with the 570 and I see no difference in picture quality between it and the 390 and it streams just like the 390. Other than the much smaller footprint and the menu system being somewhat expanded on the 570 the two players seem essentially identical for my purposes. I think both the 390 and the 570 are quality products.
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I just bought this LG BD570 Network Blu-Ray Disc (BD) Player for S. on his birthday. I normally wouldn’t do so much research on a product, but this had to perfect. Here’s what I learned:
1. Quality – Guy at BestBuy told me that all BD Players in comparable price ranges have comparable quality, with the exception of Panasonic, that has slightly better quality. However, we only have a 780p TV, so the slightly higher quality (questionable) from Panasonic would make no difference. Our LG player looks great. Watched a few BDs from Netflix and just got Avatar, they look sharp. At first it’s hard to tell the difference until a great landscape scene appears. Or try switching back down to low res and you’ll see. This player, like many others, upconverts DVDs to slightly better quality. (Note that to use Netflix with your BD Player you need a) a Netflix subscription, and b) a $2/month BD add-on (if you want to rent BDs).
2. Speed – All BD players have a lag time between disc insertion and play that is longer than your typical DVD player’s lag time. Guy at Best Buy told me that Panasonic tends to have shorter lag times (for the record, at Best Buy Panasonic cost exactly the same as all the other BD Players). This LG player definitely has a lag time, but it’s not long enough to really be annoying. Usually I just hit the power on the BD player right before the power on the TV and they both turn on at the same time.
3. Compatibility – All BD players should play on all TVs. That being said, the remote control of an LG player will only work with the LG player and LG TVs. So we need to hold onto our Sony TV remote too.
4. Net features – The LG edged out the competition because it has Netflix and Pandora streaming. Turns out to be a pretty big deal– we don’t pay for TV, so watching Netflix on the big screen is way nicer than watching it on our laptops. Though now it turns out our Wii could stream Netflix and our XBox 360, with an XBox Live subscription, could too. Actually, just about any BD player would stream Netflix at great quality.
The real advantage is Pandora. Listening to Pandora through the BD player you never get the ‘Are you still there?’ interruption, nor do you ever get ads. Only thing that would have edged out Pandora at this point would have been Hulu streaming. Free TV? Yes, please.
Other great net feature is accessing our media libraries on our computers through the BD player’s Home Link (DNLA compatible PCs/devices). I haven’t yet figured out how to make playlists, but the BD player will play entire folders of music quite nicely.
Firmware updates are found automatically. That’s nice. Sometimes it needs two restarts after a firmware update. That’s ok.
5. WiFi – Useless for us, I wish I hadn’t paid for it. Our TV is right next to our router anyway, and if we had cable TV we’d have a cable running to the TV anyway. So, useless. May as well just have a cabled connection. If you buy a BD Player without WiFi and later decide you want WiFi you’ll need to buy a special card for around $80. So I figured that for an extra $60 it was worth just getting the integrated WiFi, and yet, that’s still $60 that I’m not using at all.
6. Ease of use – I tried out the award-winning Sony interface at the Sony store. It really is quite slick. The LG interface is similarly easy to use. Only thing I don’t like, which may just be a setting I’ve overlooked, is that if there is a disk in the player it will automatically start playing rather than let me listen to Pandora or whatnot instead.
All in all, I’m happy with this LG. It’s been reliable, is my favorite platform for listening to Pandora, and looks great. More importantly, S. likes it too.
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Having been bitten by the blu ray bug, I initially purchased a LG BD370. I liked the machine a great deal, had several questions and called LG technical support which at best was indifferent. I decided I wanted a second blu ray player and would not reward LG, so I purchased a Sony BDP-S570. It came, set up was arduous as I didn’t realize at first that you can scroll both up and down but eventually I got the machine working. I did however have compatibility problems. The Sony using HDMI tried to take over my Samsung LCD TV. The two fought a great deal and I ended up calling Sony support. The support person, unlike the one I spoke to at LG was very helpful, caring etc. We spent about an hour trying to make the two products compatible without success and I returned the Sony. As the older LG had worked well with my Samsung, I purchased the BD 570. The following are my observations on my system. From the time I took the LG out of the box to connecting it wirelessly to my WiFi router, setting up Netflix and Pandora took less than 15 minutes. After I set up the LG and turned it off and then on, it asked me if I wanted to upgrade the software which it did in less than 10 minutes. This entire process was much easier on the LG than the Sony. The Sony promises to be upgradeable to 3 D, the LG is not upgradeable to 3 D. The Sony offers connections to more movie and internet programs than one can imagine. The LG offers many less but has the only two I care about Netflix and Pandora. Start up( from the time the player is turned on until you can use it) was well over 2 minutes for the Sony and well under a minute for the LG; note other reviewers have said boot time for the Sony was quick but that was not the case in my system. I think the quality of a blu ray movie is slightly better with the LG – give the Sony a 94 and LG a 98 – not much but enough so I could see a difference. The Netflix menu is much nicer and more user friendly with the LG. In both players you see a list of your instant movies but if you want to go to a description it requires more steps in the Sony – not that it is bad, the LG is easier and nicer. With regards to upscaling conventional DVDs, both players do a very good job. I did not play any old DVDs which were formatted for older cathode ray TVs on the Sony. They present in the 4:3 format on the LG and you can manually make them full screen. This is not an automatic process on the LG. I did not play an older DVD on the Sony so I don’t know how it handles older DVDs formatted for a cathode ray TV. The instruction book for the Sony is useless. It refers you to the Sony website for virtually all answers. I might add, I didn’t care for the web site either; this begs the question why do they have an instruction book? The LG instruction book does actually have instructions in it and seemed fairly complete.
Had I not had compatibility issues, I probably would have kept the Sony although I found the long time to boot up very annoying. I’m glad I got the LG, I think it has a better blu ray picture.
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I purchased this from Amazon for $179.25 on July 28, 2010 with free shipping. It arrived on August 3, 2010 well packaged and in perfect condition. I love this player and rate it a 5 for my use. After 10 days of ownership, some items that are not important to me I have not yet gotten to work and I can understand others rating this item much lower than I did. this is my first blu ray player.
WIFI-I upgraded my home network to a modern “N” network a year ago planning to some day stream video. Setup of the BD570 was a breeze and it quickly recognized my home network. It quickly found the netflix site and could do everything except play the streaming movie. Each attempt got a network busy message and i wondered if my Comcast 12GB service and “N” router about 25 feet away in another room were adequate. Three attempts failed. I powered down down router once and powered down the BD570 three times. Each time it connected to the network quickly on power up. After the 3rd time it was able to stream netflix and has not failed in the 10 days since. I was initially worried since the instruction book makes it sound like this player needs to be hard wired for best results and I spent extra money on it to get wireless.
Upgrade-My unit would not update software with the wireless connection. It connects and knows it is out of date, but will not update. I downloaded the update on usb memory and performed the update. I’ll try again wireless the next time a new update comes out.
You Tube- My player would not do You Tube at all pre software update. Always a network busy signal. After update it takes about 6 attempts to get any particular You Tube video to play. Play is fine and uninterupted once it starts.
Blu Ray- I’ve only played two movies. The first one froze the player half way through and none of the buttons worked on remote or on the player. I unplugged the player, powered up, cleaned the Blu Ray disk and it worked fine. Second blu ray disk worked fine.
Network-this player connects sees the computers on my network just fine. I’ve not done much with it except look at a few photos which look great.
Quality and design-The flip down front to get at usb or dvd seems like a poor design choice. As other reviewers have mentioned, the DVD loader seems flimsy. My kids are nearly grown. It is fine for me. This could be a “No buy” issue if I still had a 3 year old in the house or someone that might man handle it.
I gave this device 5 stars as I am a one issue voter. I got this for netflix and the quality of the HD netflix on my older 720P Sony far surpasses my best hopes. In 10 days of hard usage, the streaming video has not paused or flickered even once. I can not tell the quality of the streaming HD “Bones” TV show on netflix from the Comcast 1080i HD cable, or from a Blu Ray disk. DVD looks near HD quality also. I cannot emphasis enough how happy I am with netflix streaming video quality with this player on my TV. Remember, I am using a several years old 720P Sony 3LCD 46″ rear projection TV. Your experience using a 1080P TV will almost surely be different from mine.
8/21/2010 update:
Update by WIFI (2nd update since purchase) worked perfectly on 8/17/2010. I suspect that the 1st update (by usb) fixed my WIFI update issue. The initial usb update took about 1 minute give or take. The WIFI update took about 10 minutes give or take.
Blu Ray and DVD continue to play perfectly after the very first Blu Ray froze as mentioned above. So far my disks from netflix seem to be in perfect condition compared to the scratched disks i commonly got from the local brick and mortar chain store I used for 10+ years prior to netflix. I imagine using disks with no visible damage or dirt probably helps this player.
You Tube, after 2nd software updates, on initial session use commonly gives two “network busy” problems and then works perfectly until exited and re-attempted.