Washington, D.C.
(February 5, 2007)
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I ordered the LG BH100
Dual HDTV DVD Player from the Circuit City website
on January 23 and took delivery January 27. It comes
in a nice blue box that advertises 1080p in very
large print.
I hooked it up via a HDMI cable to a full HD 1080p
television, the Panasonic TH-65PX600U; loaded a full
HD 1080p Blu-ray DVD, and the DVD player would not
output full HD 1080p. The best it would do is 1080i.
The menu would not let me select 1080p output. The
1080p selection was "grayed" out. I called both LG
and Panasonic technical support. After much tweaking
with LG tech support, LG told me to send the unit
back to them. My unit was picked up today by DHL,
and I hope to get it back next week.
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The unit does not come with the HDMI cable, so I had to run out to Radio Shack and get one, which was annoying. I will report back when I get the unit back from LG and it outputs 1080p.
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