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• Actually "Lucky Goldstar" thus LG - DWPC 10:43:45 04/23/07 (2)
  In Reply to: Anyone tried the LG Blue Ray\HD player? posted by Duilawyer on April 22, 2007 at 16:19:52:

  They dropped the "lucky" for the US market. Until digital came along, they're biggest US niche was $77 13" tv's at K-mart.
  
  

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  • Now they sell plasmas - Jack G 10:54:44 04/23/07 (1)
    In Reply to: Actually "Lucky Goldstar" thus LG posted by DWPC on April 23, 2007 at 10:43:45:

    I don't care for them personally, but if you are in the market for a cheap plasma...
    Jack
    
    

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    • horrible reliability. nt - Duilawyer 18:34:12 04/23/07 (0)
      In Reply to: Now they sell plasmas posted by Jack G on April 23, 2007 at 10:54:44:

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• Goldstar, and you're right it WAS crap. * - Prisoners 08:35:35 04/23/07 (1)
  In Reply to: Anyone tried the LG Blue Ray\HD player? posted by Duilawyer on April 22, 2007 at 16:19:52:

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  • Goldstar, that's right. Thanks - Duilawyer 18:33:39 04/23/07 (0)
    In Reply to: Goldstar, and you're right it WAS crap. * posted by Prisoners on April 23, 2007 at 08:35:35:

    It ws making me nuts.
    
    

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• Yep... as an alleged "low end" Consumer product, it's been pretty good. - oscar 18:16:39 04/22/07 (1)
  In Reply to: Anyone tried the LG Blue Ray\HD player? posted by Duilawyer on April 22, 2007 at 16:19:52:

  I bit on it because of the itch for a high definition movie source player (I'd previously put a moratorium on DVD movie collection because most of the new stuff was starting to show up on Blu-ray/HD DVD). What sold me was a single player to play both formats in an undecided format war and because it supported uncompressed PCM and DTS HD playback via the analog outputs (later on I figured out DTS HD wasn't the same as DTS HD MA, but even 1536Kb DTS is a big improvement over anything on DVD; uncompressed PCM is ever better).

  It's been able to play every Blu-Ray and HD-DVD I've thrown at it displaying very good PQ; I only have a 720p display but I did bring it over to a friends 126" 1080p display system and he was impressed enough to consider buying it (this was also the occasion we figured out Blu-Ray PQ is sometimes practically/always theoretically going to be able to support the best video/audio playback simply because of the 5/3rds better storage capacity.

  There have been the rare "frozen frame" and lip-synch issues but this plagued every player I've read about. I also have a possible integration issue because uncompressed PCM occasionally causes my amps' protection circuits to kick in; my other LG buddies don't have this issue (I wouldn't normally expect a 400W/Ch Classe amp to quit very often).

  OTOH, if you can wait a few months, Samsung will have a Universal player and maybe everyone else will soon support HDMI 1.3-compliant players which will provide full support for DTS HD MA and TrueHD which allegedly will be just as good as uncompressed PCM.
  
  

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  • great review, thanks. nt, - Duilawyer 21:40:38 04/22/07 (0)
    In Reply to: Yep... as an alleged "low end" Consumer product, it's been pretty good. posted by oscar on April 22, 2007 at 18:16:39:

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