LG's BD300 available and in the wild

LG's BD300 Netflix / Blu-ray player may have been delayed in some instances, but it appears that all is well at Best Buy. One particular tipster has managed to acquire the deck and set it up proudly on top of his HD DVD player. He reported that a firmware update was required right from the get-go for Netflix streaming to be utilized, and once that was over, streaming commenced quickly and smoothly. He also noted that Netflix quality was only so-so, but his 2Mbps internet connection did limit the quality to just two out of four stars. Have a look at the in the wild shots below.

[Thanks, Seann]

LG's BD300 available and in the wild

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 14th 2008 11:21AM]

Can it output DVDs at native 480i? No upconversion from the player, meaning that my preamp can do the video upconversion. That's what I'm looking for.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 14th 2008 12:59PM]

Toshiba's HD DVD players looked so nice...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 15th 2008 8:48AM]

Wish they would update their old flagship model, the BH200, to support BD-Live like they promised.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 14th 2008 4:50PM]

I don't know why HD-DVD is brought up again but those players didn't look butt-ugly. These have a look of an old 1980 VCR or BetaMax. Aesthetically gross.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 14th 2008 5:13PM]

I noticed the "movie" and "photos" tabs in the images which makes me wonder... can this play video files streamed from your computer a la Popcorn Hour or PS3?

If so, what a home theater solution this would be for those intimidated by game systems for their movies.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 15th 2008 10:07AM]

Hope they come out with a model with a DVD burner and a hard drive.

They can keep the P.O.S. blu-ray player.