The LG has really surprised me. He works quietly - I can not detect any unusual sounds high, even not compared with others - and very quickly what concerns loading and navigation. He reads everything I offer him, especially by hard drive. And when he reads such as TS / M2TS files extremely fast and smooth, unlike my Panasonic player BDP220 who needs every time and even any forward / rewind and stop / play forever. I have tested the player times in detail to the acclaimed Panasonic when it comes to image quality alone (test patterns) and movement (test-films). BDs can both represent excellent. But the supreme discipline are DVDs: Stills from DVDs are displayed excellently with the LG, even a bit sharper than the Pana, yet not over-sharpened (overshoot). In particular, the S / W upscaling is outstanding (at Pana only well-s.gut), for the Pana is the color upscaling a bit better. Overall - the "16: 9" picture of Peter-Finzel Test DVD shows all the problems clearly - achieved the LG the best standing image that I could ever try. With movement, however, it looks a bit different. With video recordings (eg live concerts) both come excellent dogs: Related parts show best vertical resolution, moving the best (per pixel adaptive deinterlacing). Problem but movies, regardless of whether with or without film-Flag provided (most DVDs are not): a video was previously eventually play - the visit often in the credits of films, flickering with films all horizontal fine lines until you the Title repeat, only engages the film detection and only show up quite short Flimmerstörungen in sections. This may be the Panasonic better: DVDs with movie-Flag are perfect. Those without - so most - flicker only rarely, such as when individual fine horizontal lines (Peter-Finzel-DVD "Interlaced" test). And even such DVDs be played flawlessly, you choose the movie mode with the "Options / image / Progressive / Film" - the LG may since adjust anything.
Conclusion and additional benefits and drawbacks of LG:
++ Quietly and quickly, even in the search; shows itself in fast forward non- "stuttering" images, great! ++ Plays TS / M2TS files, for example those of DVB Receivers recordings quickly and easily from even hard drives - for me the main reason to buy it. + Reads many file formats, ++ Excellent image quality with still images and videos.
- USB port just forward - Disc tray without handholds - Discs bad rausnehmbar - No printed manual, - When reading discs, just BDs, screen remains black or nothing moves, no bar, no hourglass or similar, one might think, device dependent. - Factory is Digital Output to "PCM" - you need to know to be able to listen to 5.1. - The above-described flicker with movie DVDs (not BD) for videos.
Overall, one can say the following: Anyone looking for a truly quiet and fast-working Blu-ray player, which quickly and easily plays a particularly large file formats, even from hard drive, is the right place for the LG. Who wants to get get the most out of its DVD movie collection and for compromising when playing some file formats will inkauf is better off with the Panasonic. The "little" brother of the audited BDP120 BDP220 corresponds to the tested, only without integrated WLAN, and the still cheaper BDT77 has the same video processor, also with adjustable film mode. Therefore, the same applies to him.
