LG BD610 Blu-Ray Disc Player

 (8 customer reviews)

I bought LG's BD610 Blu-ray Player at Walmart on Black Friday for $50. The first few blu-rays I tried were fine but over the past few months I have noticed the discs skipping (image jumps to black then resumes) and now the movie cutting off completely. At first I thought it was the discs themselves, since the player is brand new, but the issue has persisted and gotten worse with all discs I tried so it is definitely the LG player. The message "invalid format" often appears on the screen with some static-y noises and the image will cut off and on until the entire player powers down... this happens with both blu-ray and dvds and most often when the movie is paused or has been running for several minutes. I also own a 42" LG 42LK450 42-Inch 1080p 60 Hz LCD HDTV so I assume there is no compatibility issue there. I've only had my LG blu-ray player for 3 months (and probably only watched 15 movies on it) and it is completely out of service. I've contacted LG and hope that I will get a...Read more

I've only had this player for a couple of days, but I'm very pleased with it so far. It does what it's supposed to do, i.e, play your Blu Ray and DVD discs. I've heard a lot of complaints about Blu Ray discs taking a long time to load, but this one does the job pretty quickly. The USB port is very handy, and the player supports a wide range of video and photo formats. It does not have internet capabilities, however, so if that is a concern for you, pass this one by. For me, however, this player was an ideal choice. When I saw it for $58, I couldn't pass it up!

I was able to pick this up @ one of the black friday sales at Target, if I remember right. I didn't pay more than 50 bux so, I thought I was gettin a good deal, until I got it home and wanted to play some of my older SVCD's and such on it. Sadly, I was not able to play any of them and, it's doesn't read video files from the USB stick either. Also, it's not network or, WIFI enabled.

All that said, it does ok for a base model blueray player. However, since it was an LG, a company known for the computer competency and phone craftsmanship, I expected something a little better out of it.

I will be replacing this as soon as I can with a higher end model. Probably a philips model as, I have had 2 DVD players and, have not been disappointed.