LG BD590

75% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

250GB internal hard drive for multimedia playback ; Very good image quality ; Wi-Fi ; Can convert all audio formats to DTS

Expensive ; Larger and heavier than standard Blu-ray players ; Hard drive storage has limited functionality

For most people, the player's 250GB internal hard drive won't justify the LG BD590's relatively high cost.

Spruces up a ho-hum product with digital media verve. Surprisingly slim and quiet (even with the HDD). Lossless ripping allows high-def music playback. Integrated 802.11n wireless connectivity delivers fast, crisp content across the network. Plays back...

Just shy of being competitively priced. Clunky menus and occasionally laggy interface. Lack of 3-D shortens its potential shelf life

Excellent Blu-ray image quality; rips CDs directly to built-in 250GB hard drive; Netflix, Vudu, YouTube, Pandora, and CinemaNow streaming; built-in Wi-Fi; plays music, videos, and pictures off a connected USB drive or via network.

Does not support 3D Blu-ray; no quick-start mode, which makes it feel slower compared with some other players; media interface is overdesigned; must change the output mode to 1080p.

The LG BD590 deftly handles Blu-ray playback, CD ripping, and streaming media services like Netflix from a single box, but you'll have to pay for that simplicity.

On the other hand, if you use Vudu's on-demand video service a lot, and if you prefer buying movies from that service to renting them, the hard drive becomes much more valuable. You can download the movies you buy to the drive, resulting in...

Great image quality with Blu-rays and DVDs; Internet streaming; DLNA compatible for streaming from a PC; 250 GB hard drive

Expensive; User interface could be a little more polished; No 3-D capabilities; Not as fast as some Blu-ray Disc Players

Rear-panel connections include HDMI 1.3a with x.v.Color. (The BD590 isn't Blu-ray 3D ready and isn't upgradable.) The back panel also includes component video and composite video outputs. Audio connections include TosLink, coaxial digital, and stereo...