LG BP135 Blu-ray Disc Player

I have used this player 3 times since I bought it. It worked fine the first 2 times. I just played a brand new Blu-ray movie disc which it will not eject. I had to pull the cover to get my disc back! When the tray ejects the disc ends up inside and pushed to the back of the player. I would not purchase a Blu-ray player from LG! Ejecting a brand new disc should be a simple process. I have not talked to LG about this but I don't think that will help even though it is still under warranty, judging by the responses others have gotten from LG. I may call anyway. UPDATE: I do not recommend people do what I did but I felt comfortable opening the player and pulling the disc out. I then pulled the top spindle holding the disc against the motorized bottom spindle and cleaned it (top spindle only) because I discovered some slightly sticky residue on my new disc right where the top spindle engaged the disc. I used a very small amount of Vaseline (only thing that would remove it)to clean the face of the spindle and the printed portion of the top of the Blu-ray where the spindle engages it. I then used dish soap to clean off the Vaseline. I put the spindle back on and tried ejecting the disc multiple times with the player cover off with no problems. Since this was a 2 disc set I cleaned the other disc as well, even though I saw no residue on the disc. I hope this has fixed the problem. I had a similar problem with a regular DVD player once because I bought a used DVD with a doughnut label where the spindle contacts the disc, that the used DVD seller added and had been pulled off leaving a sticky residue behind. This was not the case this time as the Blu-ray disc was factory new so I do not know where the sticky residue came from. That is why I slightly upgraded the star rating for this player. When I don't have this problem the player shows extremely well and performs with no problems whatsoever. I hope this helps. SECOND UPDATE: I watched the 2nd Blu-ray disc and had no problems ejecting the disc. I am now confident the sticky residue on the disc was the problem. The movies were heavy on the special effects (The Hobbit) and the picture and audio were superb and there were no glitches, so I have once again raised the star rating. Since I don't know where the residue came from and I had no problems with other discs before the stuck disc and no problems since I got rid of the sticky residue I am now giving the player the top rating based on video and audio quality (jacked through my home audio system.) The reason I chose the LG was price and I had bought an LG Blu-ray burner for my computer previously and I have had no problems with it. All is well that ends well. Read more

Decent player at a good price but too slow for my taste. I expected it to move between menus more quickly than my player that is 10 years old but the constant addition of new technology like playing from USB and network keep these units clunky. It would be nice to have the ability to disable aspects of the player so that it can focus all time and energy on what you want it to do. Read more

This is a great little Blu-Ray / DVD player, by a respected name-brand: LG. It has a small footprint (about the size of an average hardcover book). It provides excellent picture quality, and excellent sound quality. It is super-simple to connect and set-up, and very easy-to-use. Just add your Internet-Streaming Digital Media Player (Amazon Fire or Roku), on top of it, and you have two high-quality products that are each dedicated to what they each do best... not packed together as a compromise-product. Here is the back-story: I used to have one of those all-in-one Blu-Ray AND WiFi Digital Streaming boxes from Sony. Like most of those all-in-one units, it had a needlessly complicated user interface, and in spite of being made by a highly respected manufacturer, its ability to actually connect to the Internet to stream digital content (like Netflix, etc.) was extremely poor-quality, and it crashed about 50% of the time, often totally unable to log-on at all. I dumped that, I bought Amazon Fire (a shockingly tiny box), with its powerful processor inside, and that thing connects to the Internet to stream Netflix and other services EVERY TIME without fail. I also have a Roku3, which is just as reliable. That's what those devices were built to do. I don't know who decided that these two TOTALLY UNRELATED things: playing a Blu-Ray or DVD... and... Streaming Internet Media like Netflix, should be packaged together into a single product, spawning the "Smart Blu-Ray Player" or 'Wi-Fi Streaming Blu-Ray Player", but to me, that makes about as much sense as having a smart phone that is also an electric toothbrush or a Blu-Ray player that is also an alarm clock. Bad idea. You are much better off buying a separate Internet Media Streaming Device that specializes in doing that one thing very well (the Amazon Fire TV with a powerful computer processor inside is the best such device on the market, and the ROKU 3 is a close second in its power and ability). When you do that, however, you may then need a Blu-Ray / DVD player... and it seems that about 95% of them have an unreliable, low-quality, (and if you followed my advice above... totally redundant and unneeded) WiFi Streaming Media capability built-in. This LG BP135 (and its similar model LG BP125) is a rarity because: it is JUST a Blue-Ray / DVD player ... it does not wirelessly stream other media, so it can focus on doing what it does in an excellent manner. It is so simple to connect: the back side has only two things: the electrical plug, and one HDMI cable jack. That's all. And that's all you need. A child could hook this thing up in one minute without reading any instructions. Just plug it into the wall, and run an HDMI cable from this unit, to the HDMI jack on your TV... or to the HDMI jack on the back of your AV Receiver Unit on your home theater system. That's it. Done. You've now got a great little Blu-Ray / DVD Player ... and IF you also want a high-quality, dedicated, WiFi Streaming Device, you can deal with that as a separate and unrelated issue, which is absolutely the best way to do that, at this point in time, given the products currently available to the consumer. Read more

It works real well the only problem I have is the remote will not work. easy to set up, its a good thing I had my old remote. Read more

Very pleased with my purchase. Wanted to replace my old dvd players with something inexpensive. Did my research online and chose the LG thru Amazon.. It's the essence of plug-and-play. Out of the box, hook up the HDMI and power cords, and away you go. Size of the player is half that of older players. 1 battery for the small remote included. Haven't tried Blu-Ray yet, but it plays all my dvds just peachy. Can't go wrong with this player. Read more

I got this just to have a Blu-Ray player. And it does that quite well. It is a small, compact and quite capable player. It does not stream--but streaming should be done, IMHO, on a separate device like Amazon Fire or Roku 3. The combination of the player and streamer--is a bad idea. Why burn up a DVD player to watch streaming? This machine will play from a thumb drive or an external drive. Unlike many--this one plays many video formats (except WMV sometimes) and does it quite well--as well as all sorts of photo formats. It displays the drive contents in a clear, concise way making finding an item you seek easy. The remote is well designed. I am quite pleased with this addition to my entertainment world. Highly recommended--and at a good price as well. Read more