Raising the bar
Upping the ante on advanced home-theater performance, the LHB977 Blu-ray home theater system adds two features to the LHB953's already impressive line-up. First, two integrated HDMI v1.3a inputs allow the LHB977's Blu-ray player/receiver to become more than just a video player . . . it becomes an HD hub for your home theater. Now, instead of needing to invest in an HD A/V receiver, you can connect other HD video sources like an HD satellite receiver or a DVR to your LHB977 system, creating an integrated, streamlined home A/V setup. Second, for enhanced style and heightened audio performance, the LHB977 replaces the LHB953's front-channel bookshelf speaker pair with a pair of sleek, modern-looking floorstanding speakers. Standing 45" tall and pumping out a whopping 155W of output power each, the LHB977's front-channel speakers deliver immersive audio effects. Add that to the LHB977's dual rear-channel speakers, center-channel speaker, and 225W subwoofer, and you've got yourself an earth-moving home audio experience to complement the Full HD video served up by the LHB977's Blu-ray Disc player.
The NetCast cornucopia
cornucopia [kawr-nuh-koh-pee-uh], n., definition: 1. an abundant, overflowing supply. Yep, just as we suspected, with its NetCast Entertainment Access capability, the LHB977 Blu-ray home theater offers a veritable cornucopia of audio and video entertainment. Using the LHB977's built-in ethernet port, NetCast allows you to connect the LHB977 to your pre-existing internet service, from where you can instantly begin streaming a variety of online content right to your home theater. First, support for Netflix Instant Streaming brings you access to movies, TV shows, and other video from the Netflix online service. Second, you can enjoy personalized internet radio programming thanks to support for Pandora internet radio.
The other "overflowing supply"
Okay, true, access to Netflix and Pandora does outfit your home theater with a vast supply of audio and video entertainment. But you also have another resource for almost endless audio, and you carry it with you almost everywhere. Yep, it's your iPod. Thanks to an included iPod dock, the LHB977 gives you the ability to share your latest playlist with whoever's home by simply plugging you iPod into the dock. Instantly, you're listening to your iTunes over the LHB0977's speaker system.
We're Live in three . . . two . . . one . . .
It's amazing what one little input can do for your home theater experience. We've already mentioned how the LHB977's ethernet port brings you access to movies, TV shows, and internet radio from Netflix and Pandora. But that is only the beginning. With your LHB977 connected to the internet and a flash-memory device plugged into the USB port, you're ready to discover a whole new dimension of the Blu-ray home theater experience — BD-Live viewing. Adding interactivity to the Blu-ray experience for select titles, BD-Live capability allows you to watch deleted scenes, shorts, and trailers for some of your favorite movies. Further, you can participate in online gaming and chatting with other BD-Live users. You can even download ringtones for your phone. All thanks to the LHB977's BD-Live functionality.
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 LHB977 Blu-ray home theater system from LG.
Hear what the director intended
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 LHB977 from LG sports Dolby TrueHD and dts-HD decoding, the latest processing technologies from Dolby and dts. Hear movie audio as the director intended for you to hear it.
Hardly the end for DVD
Fear not: investing in the LG LHB977 does not mean "lights out" for your DVD collection. Quite to the contrary. Advanced video-processing technologies allow the LHB977 to upscale standard definition DVD video to near-HD 1080p 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 LHB977 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 LHB977 via the USB port, and voilà, you and your friends are reliving your adventures on your widescreen HDTV.
The advanced connectivity of HDMI
Bringing you the absolute best in connectivity, LG's LHB977 features two HDMI inputs and one output. HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is the only interface in consumer electronics that can carry both uncompressed high-definition (HD) video and uncompressed multi-channel audio in all HD formats including 720p, 1080i and even 1080p. Your incoming media content comes in a variety of sizes, resolutions and formats, and with that in mind, HDMI systems automatically configure to display that content in the most effective format. Since HDMI carries all channels on video and audio, there is only one cable to plug into any HDMI-enabled source and display device. No more complicated cable set-up when installing your home theater system, and no more ugly cable mess behind your components. HDMI supports standard, enhanced, or high-definition video, plus multi-channel digital audio on this single cable. Also, HDMI is fully backward-compatible with DVI. (Please note that a physical adapter, sold separately, is needed to make the conversion from HDMI to DVI.)
Your HD lifeline
High Definition Multimedia Interface, or HDMI, is the only home A/V connection that allows for both Full HD 1080p video and 7.1-channel studio-quality audio to be passes along a single cable. In other words, in order to take full advantage of your home theater’s high definition potential, you need to HDMI cabling to link HD-capable components. It’s only natural that you might have questions regarding how best to outfit your personal HD system. Vann’s sales representatives are here to explain all of your options. Call the 800 number at the top of this page for expert advice.
Included with purchase
The following items are included with the purchase of the LG LHB977 Blu-ray Disc HTIB: Universal remote control, 2 size-AA batteries, 1 component-video cable, 1 FM antenna, 1 AM antenna, 1 User's Manual, 1 Quick Start guide, and 1 Customer Registration guide.
