What You Need to Know about the LG-Netflix Box
Blu Titan wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
LG and Netflix have been doling out more details on their joint hardware project day by day. Here’s what we know about the BD300, with thanks to Wired Gadget Lab, The New York Times Bits Blog, and of course, the official press release.
It’ll be available the first week of October at Best Buy, Circuit City and specialty retailers.
It will cost $399.95 (the Roku Netflix player is $99.99).
It will be a Blu-ray disc player with BD Live (though accessing the Internet will require an additional memory dongle).
You’ll have to have a Netflix subscription, but LG will offer two weeks free Netflix service for new members with the player.
It will play 12,000 Netflix movies and TV episodes, but you’ll have to queue them up in advance from your PC.
Netflix content will not stream in HD, but rather “near DVD-quality,” depending on the speed of your Internet connection. Netflix hopes to stream movies […]
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