LG BD390 Blu-ray Disc Player Review

David Mackenzie takes a close and in-depth look at LG’s new Blu-ray Player the BD390.

Another day, another mostly excellent Blu-ray Disc player. Like almost every other player around at this price point, LG’s machine plays back the common 1080p/24 discs without any issues at all (provided it’s in the User picture mode), and does well enough with rarer 1080i material. As usual, it attempts to play PAL Film DVDs correctly, but doesn’t do an entirely flawless job. Given the machine’s other features and low price, I feel these compromises are acceptable, but obviously not ideal.

LG should make it clearer that by default, the player tampers with the video stored on the disc. Blu-ray is a premium home video format which lets us see films closer to how they were intended, and serious film fans do not take kindly at all to such meddling going on – most of all, without their consent. Luckily, the “User” picture mode on the player defeats this processing and even includes basic Colour controls, which could potentially help calibrators in getting a better image out of difficult displays.

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