January 29, 2008

Review: LG's BH200 Blu-ray/HD DVD Player

With a MSRP of $999, we'd hope that the new LG BH200 would be a full-featured dual format player and it is. The player fully supports HD DVD and Blu-ray specs including menu viewing and bonus content on HD DVD discs and picture-in-picture on Blu-ray. In addition it upscales standard DVD to 1080p resolution and has full support for audio CD playback. Audio support includes decoding capabilities for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio in-unit and the player's design is slick and stylish with an easy-to-use graphical interface.

With some discs, especially those incorporating BD Java, occasional pauses were present and the player could be sluggish at times when identifying the disc format and when using advanced menus. While it is a full-featured dual-format player, we question if the heavy price tag is worth the features when you can buy two separate HD DVD and Blu-ray players for less than half the price.

Via PC World