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Thursday, November 24, 2011

LG LHB535 5.1 Channel Network Blu-ray Disc Home Theater System (Black)

If you want to make the most out of your HD entertainment, the LHB535 Network Blu-ray Home Theater System more than delivers. Instant streaming movies, shows and music direct from your Wi-Fi connection to your TV. Full HD video and superior audio performance with Blu-ray. Crystal-clear, dazzling sound from state-of-the-art speakers. It's the total package. The end of “there’s nothing on.” NetCast Entertainment Access brings the best Internet services direct to your TV—no computer required. Instantly access movies and TV shows, news and weather and the world’s largest library of HD movies in 1080p. Learn more Disclaimer: Internet connection & subscriptions required and sold separately. Cut loose from messy wires. Integrated Wi-Fi Connectivity allows you take advantage of NetCast Entertainment Access from any available Wi-Fi connection, anywhere in its range.

Amazon Sales Rank: #8495 in Speakers Color: Black Brand: LG Model: LHB535 Released on: 2010-03-09 Dimensions: 15.00" h x 23.80" w x 17.10" l, Integrated WiFi Connectivity NetCast™ Entertainment Access Blu-ray and DVD disc playback 2 HDMI Inputs Silk Dome Speaker Technology

If you want to make the most out of your HD entertainment, the LHB535 Network Blu-ray Home Theater System more than delivers: instant-streaming movies, shows, and music, direct from your Wi-Fi connection to your TV; Full HD video and superior audio performance; and crystal-clear, dazzling sound from state-of-the-art speakers. It's the total package. Key Features Integrated Wi-Fi Connectivity Cut loose from messy wires. Integrated Wi-Fi Connectivity allows you to take advantage of NetCast™ Entertainment Access and BD-Live—from any available Wi-Fi connection, anywhere in its range. NetCast™ Entertainment Access The end of "there's nothing on." NetCast™ Entertainment Access lets you stream instant, and virtually endless, entertainment from Netflix®, Vudu™, CinemaNow™, Pandora®, YouTube™, Picasa™, and AccuWeather®—direct to your TV from the Internet, no computer required. MyMedia With MyMedia, it's easy to bring your digital entertainment libraries within easy reach, right on your TV. Access videos, photos, and music from your home network, through this DLNA-certified media player.   Other Features Blu-ray Disc™ Playback Make the most of your Full HD television. This next-generation, optical-disc format brings you the highest Full HD 1080p experience. That means it allows you to get the best picture-quality available, anywhere. Silk Dome Speaker Technology Hear movies, sports, and video games the way they're meant to be heard. Enjoy less distortion, clearer sound, and a better sound experience with LG's Silk Dome Speaker Technology. HDMI™ V.1.3 with Deep Color Make the installation of any enabled device a snap. Get 10.2Gbps of bandwidth for deeper colors, and to take advantage of the best Full HD experience. Pure HD Audio Performance There's more to HD than the picture. Dolby® Digital Plus, Dolby® True HD, and dts-HD Advanced Digital Audio Out technologies provide an uncompressed next-generation audio experience for your home theater.   Additional Features Standard DVD Upscaling Made for iPod® and iPhone® USB Media Host SimpLink™

Most helpful customer reviews 139 of 143 people found the following review helpful. Excellent system for the price. By DeAd MiKe Updated January 2011. At the time of my current purchase (yes, current purchase - I'll explain that later), the unit was $420 and is worth every penny (it's almost $100 less now, so there's really no excuse for anyone to not pick it up). For that price, you get a very good Blu-ray player, decent speakers (I'll get to that later too), and the ability to do all kinds of streaming to the device using either an Ethernet cable or the device's built in Wireless N certified antenna. The main reason I wanted this particular unit was two-fold. One, it is the only decent Home Theater System that has built-in DivX HD support, which means that it has the ability to play pretty much all types of media (MKV, AVI, DivX, MP4, MPG, etc...) off of a USB or from your home server. This was crucial. This Blu-ray home theater system also just so happened to match the design of my LG 42LH40 1080p 120hz LCD HDTV (seen here: http://www.amazon.com/LG-42LH40-42-Inch-1080p-120Hz/dp/B001VJHWTQ - AMAZING television as soon as you turn off the 'TruMotion' feature). So, this Home Theater System matched my needs. This was my first Blu-ray player, but I didn't even really get it for that. I mainly wanted to be able to stream all kinds of media to something in my living room that could also playback my DVDs and eventual Blu-rays. My Xbox 360 can handle all of my media, but that's in the bedroom. I needed something decent for the living room, and something to take advantage of my beautiful TV. So, after getting this system, I tried some Blu-rays out - and WOW! I've since bought almost 50 titles on Blu-ray. The picture and sound is amazing - but I'll get to that later! I've mentioned "current purchase" and "first purchase" in this review so let me explain that. This device originally had a manufacturing defect which caused a loud high pitch whistle sound (sounded like a tea kettle) to emit from the front right, rear right, and sometimes the center speaker. I was the first to document this online, and I did it on the Amazon message board on this very page. I also replied to several reviewers on this and the page for the LG LHB335 device. Others mentioned this problem on various websites (I'm not going to plug them here in my review), so trust me, this was a big problem. On top of that, I was in constant contact with the head of LG's Quality Assurance team. After talking to him about the issue, he admitted it existed and promised to find a fix. I grew impatient and saw the price for this device drop (around $80 from what I originally purchased it for) so I decided to return it and thought I would re-buy it at a cheaper price once he assured me a fix was found. Well, a fix was found. I re-purchased the device and it's working flawlessly. The fixed ones are manufactured June 2010 and later. If you purchase it and the manufacturing date is before June 2010, you will have the whistle sound. So, back to the review. There have been some firmware updates lately that added some new features (DivX TV - which is awesome, MLB TV, and Napster), so make sure the first thing you do when you get the device is to update the firmware. It's also good to do a factory reset the first time you do that just in case (me and at least one other person have noticed a bug that was solved when we did that - but it's possible that the bug would have been fixed with the firmware update that was released a few days after that - I don't know). It's also a good idea to go into the speaker settings and adjust the speaker distance (the amount of feet between each speaker and your usual listening position). Now, this device came with rather short speaker wires (probably the shortest out of any Home Theater System I've ever purchased). This was solved with less than $10 and a quick trip to Radio Shack. I'm glad the speaker connections aren't proprietary like some other

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