http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/ Engadget Comments for LG's BD300 Netflix / Blu-ray deck ships on October 10 for $349 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/Oct 2nd 2008 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/Oct 3rd 2008 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/Oct 3rd 2008 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/It's a damned shame they switched to single format only when there are so many inexpensive HD DVD movies out there to be had - and a bit of a surprise they'd cut their own noses off like that when so many HD DVD owners would be likely to be interested in an excellent dual player.

Still, the BH 200 will keep me (and those who have discovered it's charms) happy for a long time yet.

All it needed was a firmware update to become the best player out there and it got it this year.

I wonder if this BD 300 is so easy to hack for multi-region SD DVD & multi-region Blu-ray?
No fuss, no hardware required just a good old remote code.
As it ought to be - and isn't on any other Blu-ray player. ]]>Oct 3rd 2008 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/
The "awkward" part is setting up the server. It would have been a nice parting gift by Toshiba, Microsoft, et al to actually put in place turnkey ways of setting up such servers so it was easy for online content providers to support the million or so people with HD DVD players out there, but, alas...]]>Oct 3rd 2008 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/Oct 3rd 2008 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/Oct 3rd 2008 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/
Damned BluRay stuff is always "just wait wait wait, it WILL be great!"]]>Oct 3rd 2008 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/lgs-bd300-netflix-blu-ray-deck-ships-on-october-10-for-349/
They created a spec some time ago. It was essentially (functionally, at any rate) DVD in high resolution. I believe Java was the only serious enhancement. Then the DVD Forum said "Wait, we think the future of media looks like..." and described a spec which presumed that, y'know, people have this Interweb thingie, and at some point would expect lots of stuff to come via it.

The BDA said "Nah"

The DVD Forum said "Uh-uh"

The BDA said "No way"

The DVD Forum said "Yes way"

Ok, you get the idea. The DVD Forum then announced HD DVD.

The BDA continued with the theme. Initially this was because of a number of companies fearing a schism who tried to get the two sides together. The BDA accepted that VC-1 and H.264 might be good ideas and included it. But they rejected Advanced Content seeing it as a fancy web browser and largely ignoring what it was there for.

At this point, the two formats started to actually take a real form. Toshiba produced the first HD DVD player, followed shortly by someone else producing the first Blu-ray player. HD DVD was the funky one that hooked up to the Internet, whereas Blu-ray kinda looked like an expensive DVD system.

And that was the beginning of the end. While not really understanding what the network connectivity aspect of HD DVD was, the BDA recognized that Blu-ray was well behind HD DVD in terms of features.

So Profile 1.1 came along, allowing Blu-ray to have discs that were just as feature filled as HD DVD discs. The critical feature was PIP. Meanwhile the BDA decided to do something about Internet connectivity, and while still not "getting it", it announced Profile 2.0, allowing for external connectivity of some sort and some storage of media online.

Essentially, the initial version of Blu-ray sucked. Blu-ray's been playing catch-up with HD DVD ever since, even now, well after the format war has ended. Because this catch-up occurred after Blu-ray players started being made, and with plenty of advance warning as to the features that'll be implemented, we're still looking at firmware updates. Once the format's finished, you'll see less firmware updates.

All of this could have been avoided if WHV hadn't screwed up on January and backed the unfinished, put together by imbeciles who still don't understand why they're adding the features they're adding, format.
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Something's fishy here--and it smells pretty bad. At any rate, I bought a new Sony Blu-Ray this past weekend, and will stream my Netflix through X-Box come November. Sorry, LG, but you guys lost a sale.]]>Oct 13th 2008 5:39PM