I finally replaced my Samsung BDP 1590 with a new blu-ray player the LG BD530. Would it work over hdmi as the old Sammy had quit doing after a firmware update was the first question to answer. Heck yes, it did. I actually planned on buying the new Panasonic from Best Buy but it was not in stock and this one ended up being a steal.
It does not have all the fancy apps that many players have. It has weather, youtube, and access to Picassa. Basically, there's nothing there that I will ever use. We watched The Incredibles on dvd first upconverted to 720p for our hdtv. It looked better than I had ever seen it. Then I popped in my Sammy's nemesis, Robin Hood on blu-ray, and it played dutifully. Finally, I can watch Russell Crowe steal from the rich and give to the poor, well sort of, I suppose.
But, there was definitely a bonus feature that I did not expect: mkv playback. The files have to be h264 so far from my experimenting with it. But it will play back recordings I've made from my HD PVR perfectly which I have yet to get my Apple TV 2 to do! Awesome. The downside is that it is just a a file viewer to look at the files on an external hard drive and not a cool gui like on XBMC.
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