Very good home theater system with slight weaknesses

Very good home theater system with slight weaknesses

LG BH7230BB 3D Blu-ray 5.1 Home Theater System (HDMI) (Electronics)

Customer Review

The 5.1 home theater system BH7230BB LG is my first such system. Primarily was important to me that the spatial sound and playback of DVDs and Blurays is very good. On these points I am really very satisfied! But improvements are still possible in the Smart TV functions, the Web browser and, unfortunately, come to play back video files.

Processing:
For the price it should be clear that this is an entry-level system, albeit a very good one. This means that optics and processing solid but nothing special are. The design I find relatively neutral, that is not where you would have to think twice whether it matches the device. It should be noted that the front of all the speakers is high gloss, what you can not necessarily see on the product photos. They are made up on the subwoofer Although entirely of plastic, but good. The subwoofer is how so common wooden fiberboard. The player is glossy on the front and has a light blue display that concerns on power. On top of the front edge one can find the keys with which you switch on the device, open the disc tray, etc. They are touch keys that can not be pressed, which can seem a little noble design. Well I also like the top of the player, which is held in the look of brushed metal. However, all sides of the unit until the back and bottom, made of plastic. The supplied remote control (incl. Batteries) has a good size (no fiddly buttons, approximately 23.5cm x 4.8 cm) and has on the top a brushed look, which I really like. They can be programmed to various TV manufacturers, so that I can order my Samsung TV service (TV switch, AV / INPUT, vol +/-, Channel +/-).

Construction and equipment:
The structure designed easily. One need only attach the included silver cables each to the terminals on the speakers and player. All speakers can either put down or be (except the subwoofer) also suspended. In the configuration you can specify the distance from each speaker to the listener and the desired volume. The connection to the Wi-Fi worked fine. The key is to enter somewhat awkward only on the remote control.

Sound:
This point is always very subjective, depending on what you yourself for standards. I am very satisfied with the sound and find him balanced when I had the default powerful subwoofer slightly reduced in volume. The spatial effect succeeds very well in movies and voices are always to be understood well. You can adjust the volume of each speaker, and there are various "Sound Effect" options: Naturally Plus (5.1), Natural (2.1), pass (2.1), Bass Blast (5.1), language (3.1), game (4.1) , night (3.1), Up Scaler (2.1), Loudness (2.1) and User EQ. The first two are the default options.

Operation:
A few basic functions can be operated via the buttons on the device, but otherwise you need at least the supplied remote control. If one wishes, however, for example, the integrated web use browsers with very laborious navigate the cursor with the arrow keys or by typing on the onscreen keyboard something in a search, one should another input device such as a mouse connected to the USB port on the rear panel. My wireless mouse can I find a very good addition to service. The LG Smartphone remote control app I have not tested.

All functions can be controlled via the bit strange designed menu system. There are two series of symbols. In the front row is: SmartShare (tm), Premium, LG Smart World, My Apps, and input settings. Depending on the selected symbol are available in the series including several small sub-items.
- Under "SmartShare" one finds its own media (eg pickled Bluray, connected USB flash drive or via DLNA streaming files from your PC or other device).
- "Premium" includes a couple of online services such as a YouTube app, max cathedrals, Bild.de, Deezer, Zattoo, Facebook, Google Maps and others (a total of 19).. I had expected that at least the pre-installed applications work very well but it is rather sobering: Although I have not been all 19 tested but at least "ace trax Movies" (whatever that is) and "Welt der Wunder" not function. YouTube works well, also MySpass (ProSieben Sat1 and comedy productions) and Google Maps (albeit more complicated than on the PC). With Zattoo you can watch over the Internet, the public broadcasters, only does the application rather unreliable and sometimes a station can not view despite very good Internet connection.
- Under "LG Smart World" you will find the App Store LG (for download you have to register). The selection of apps is unfortunately quite low and I miss z. B. an app for Vimeo.com or for the libraries of the public. The libraries can be via the Flash-capable browser and visit also play videos, but not in full-screen. If anyone has found a solution, please leave a comment.
- Under "My Apps" are a search function, the browser itself and downloaded apps.
- "Input" manages all possible inputs of the device and the integrated radio.
- "Settings", the system settings.

On the CD-Rom is located next to the manual and the software Nero MediaHome 4, with which you can share folders on the PC to be accessed by the Blu-ray player (DLNA). This can be accessed easily on your own computer on videos, music and photos without having to copy them separately on z. B. a USB stick. The connection is established via the WLAN and usually works well. Why is it that sometimes there disconnections with me, I do not know. As the Vorrezensent has already noted, images are unfortunately slow to load, so you then still have to revert to the USB flash drive if you have not so much patience.

Playability:
Purchased DVDs and Blurays be played without problems. Annoying is that only about 60-70% of the tested run video files that I have played both from a USB stick or via DLNA. And I've tested various DivX and H.264 versions with different resolutions, Xvid and MPEG4. For me it is not discernible what it is that some files are not playable. It seems in any case not a codec or resolution to be generally affected. After all are videos that start first, then played without problems. My DivX videos were for the most part of onlinetvrecorder.de. It happens that such. B. will play an episode of a series, then the next two, and not the fourth but again. But since I know how complicated the whole issue with the codecs, I would not rule out that someone else have fewer problems with the playback of video files when I could.
Since you can master the built-in web browser Flash on websites that offer videos, such play. Depending on the website that works, however difficult or impossible times and times. The full screen function has not yet worked with me on such sites. As I conclude he prefers my laptop on.

Conclusion:
I forgive 4 of 5 stars because the system the most important features for me (picture and sound from DVDs and Blurays) copes very well and overall has a convincing price-performance ratio. The unfortunately not all well-functioning "new" features of Smart TV (apps and Internet) and the not so satisfactory playback of video files with me are my main criticisms. The playback of 3D media, I could not test.

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