Blu-ray. Wireless. Media. Server.
Complete home theater happiness in one simple step: the BD590 from LG. Sure, as a Blu-ray Disc player, the BD590 brings Full HD 1080p video and studio-quality surround sound to your living room. But thanks to its built-in ethernet port and Wi-Fi capabilities, and an integrated 250GB hard drive, this single-disc Blu-ray player also equips you to discover vast entertainment possibilities on the world wide web. Whether you choose to use the RJ-45 ethernet port or the 802.11 wireless connection to hook up to your home's existing internet service, the BD590's NetCast Entertainment Access suite serves up instant access to movies and music from a heavy-hitting list of online providers. Stream movies from Netflix (using your pre-existing subscription). Chill out with your own personalized radio station from Pandora Internet Radio. Catch the latest DIY craze on YouTube. Check the weather at AccuWeather.com. Heck, you can discover even more HD movies at Vudu.com. Speaking of Vudu.com . . . once you've downloaded the HD main feature for this Saturday's movie night, you can keep it around for a second matinee showing on Sunday afternoon, or any other afternoon, thanks to the BD590's built-in 250GB hard drive. In fact, you can store up to 35 HD movies at one time. Or, you could stock up 260 standard-definition movies or up to 88,000 songs, or any combination of HD movies, SD flicks, and audio tracks. One step to a Blu-ray home theater experience that's beyond Blu-ray . . . the BD590.
Oh, yeah, there's more
We've got just two words for ya: BD. Live. Okay, so it's more like two letters and a word, but one way or another it spells an expanded, interactive Blu-ray Disc viewing experience. When you combine internet access, your favorite Blu-ray movie, and a USB storage device, the BD590's BD-Live functionality gives you the ability to delve into a wide array of bonus materials and interactivity features. Using BD-Live you could: watch deleted scenes, hear director commentary, or enjoy special movie shorts; participate in online gaming; or, you can even chat with other BD-Live users via online voice and video messaging. But guess what? Yep, there's more.
Still not finished
Boy, thanks to a simple ethernet port and wireless capability, it's incredible just how much you can expand your home entertainment experience with the BD590. As a final note, DLNA compatibility makes it possible for you to access any photos, music, and video stored on your home's computer network for playback on your home theater system. Whether it's online audio and video streaming, interactive extras for your favorite Blu-ray movie, or your personal photos and video, the BD590 delivers.
Blu serves up the full home theater experience
Full, high definition audio and video . . . all thanks to a teeny blue-violet laser. That's the revolution offered by Blu-ray Disc. While DVD technology uses a wide red laser to encode audio and video on DVD discs, Blu-ray Disc technology uses a much narrower blue-violet laser, making it possible to fit a significantly larger amount of data on a disc of the same size. How much more data? Try five times more data! So, while DVDs store standard definition 480i video and 5.1-channel compressed surround sound, Blu-ray Disc serves up full 1920 x 1080p high definition video as well as 7.1-channel, studio-master-quality audio. And that's not all. There's still space left over on Blu-ray discs for a wide range of bonus features, including extra scenes, director commentary, interactive features, and picture-in-picture BonusView viewing. Discover the Blu-ray Disc experience with the BD590 Blu-ray player from LG.
What the director intended for you to hear
While DVD technology marked a huge advancement over VHS, sacrifices still had to be made in transferring your favorite movies from the silver screen to your home theater. And perhaps the largest sacrifice concerned the audio portion of the home cinema experience. Audio data occupies much more space than does video, so in order to fit a movie's soundtrack on a DVD, the audio had to be compressed, or altered from its studio-original quality into a more compact form. Naturally, realism-enhancing detail was lost. Thanks to the dramatically improved storage capacity of Blu-ray disc, however, full 7.1-channel studio-quality surround sound can be placed on a single Blu-ray disc along with the video. Delivering this HD audio experience to the rest of your A/V system, the BD590 from LG sports Dolby TrueHD and dts-HD Master Audio decoding, the latest processing technologies from Dolby and dts. Further, 7.1-channel audio output delivers this full surround sound experience with superior fidelity. Hear movie audio as the director intended for you to hear it.
Hardly the end for DVD
Fear not: investing in the LG BD590 does not mean "lights out" for your DVD collection. Quite to the contrary. Advanced video-processing technologies allow the BD590 to upscale standard definition DVD video to near-HD, 1080p-equivalent levels via HDMI, optimizing your DVD collection for viewing on your HDTV.
A little multimedia functionality
There's no doubt about it — your HDTV would make a great venue for sharing all your latest digital photos. If only there were a way to get your photos from the computer to the HDTV . . . Enter the BD590 from LG, featuring a built-in USB 2.0 Media Host. Load your favorite shots onto a USB thumb drive, connect the thumb drive to the BD590 via the USB port, and voilà, you and your friends are reliving your adventures on your widescreen HDTV. You can also access music and video stored on a USB device. Further, with support for a vast array of audio and video formats, the BD590 lets you play everything from CD and MP3 audio to DivX-formatted online video and JPEG photos.
Included with purchase
The following items are included with the purchase of the BD590 from LG: BD590 Blu-ray Disc player, 1 RCA-type A/V cable, 1 Nero MediaHome Bundle Disc, 1 universal remote control, and 2 AAA-size batteries for remote.
