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hi this is ty Pendlebury with a review of the lg BP 530 now our people still buying blu-ray players in 2013 if that's you then you're probably looking to buy something that's more than a blu-ray player with streaming one of your must-have features while it has the all-important Netflix playback the lg BP 530 offers a number of other features with the most intriguing being private listening this enables you to couple the player with your phone and lets you use your headphones without sneaking a cable across the living room it sounds like a good idea but as the sound quality doesn't scale down for slow connections you need to have a really good wireless connection or else you'll just hear mush the LG is fairly standard looking for a blu-ray player with a dark grey and black appearance one gripe is that the playback buttons on the front are the same color as the rest of the player and it's hard to tell them apart the remote control is pretty well organized but if you're typing a lot they are a bit too squishy for comfort meanwhile the menu system is a bit strange with the my apps icon almost completely useless the only vaguely interesting extra is Rhapsody which appears as a link below my apps so you don't really need to enter it at all what can I say about Netflix though it works pretty well but unfortunately it's a little slow to the load up and about 35 seconds it takes twice as long as the equivalent samsung player blu-ray quality is very good though a decent upscaling of DVDs and only some minor judder when playing back blu-rays the LG BP 530 is now available online for about $90 and it's pretty decent for that price but I'd still go for the superior Samsung 5900 which is also available for about 90 bucks this has been ty Pendlebury for cnet.com you