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hey I'm Matthew Muscovy AK from cnet.com and we're gonna take a look at the lg BP 620 this is LG's top-of-the-line 3d blu-ray player for 2012 and it's selling for about a hundred and thirty dollars the design is pretty basic you've got the disc tray on the left a few front panel buttons and a USB port on the front flip it around and there's just a basic set of ports including an HDMI output an optical audio output and an Ethernet port there's also built in Wi-Fi so you don't need an Ethernet jack in your living room the included remote is pretty good the buttons are laid out nicely but there's no dedicated button for Netflix or the Smart TV content portal which is a nice feature that's available on some competitors the main home page is pretty simple although the icons for premium and LG apps are a little confusing premium is actually where you're gonna find all the apps you want like Netflix and Pandora while LG Apps is filled with a bunch of useless games and apps that you're never really going to use however once you get into the premium section the user interface is very straightforward it's basically just a grid of icons and it is the best interface I've seen for streaming content on a blu-ray player LG's selection of streaming services is pretty good including Netflix Hulu Plus Pandora and Vudu with MLB TV and ma coming in a future firmware update the big missing app though is Amazon Instant which LG supported last year but it's not going to be available on 2012 blu-ray players so if you want Amazon on your blu-ray player you're gonna need to check out some competing models from Panasonic and Sony image quality was excellent on blu-ray movies DVDs and Netflix but that's to be expected since all blu-ray players pretty much have the same image quality these days in terms of disk loading speeds the LG is about average although it doesn't have a QuickStart mode so it takes a little longer to turn on than some other players overall the LG BP 620 is a solid all-around blu-ray player with a great smart TV interface and 3d compatibility but it's not quite as good as Panasonic's DMP BDT 220 which has Amazon Instant a dedicated Netflix button in a faster boot up time for the same price I'm Matthew Muscovy from CNET and this is the LG BP 620