Whatever burner you buy, I have a good suggestion on what media to avoid: Memorex. They are absolute crap. I bought a spindle of 15 in January 2009 when I bought my LG BD burner, burned a few personal videos of trips that are memories, and four months later when I put one in my blu-ray player, it gave me an error. Another one of them would play but freezing every few seconds, and the rest were the same. I tried them in the LG drive in the computer and after what seemed a laser war inside of it, Windows showed as if there was no disc in the unit. These were all BD-Rs that right after burning them they were playing perfectly fine in a Sony BDP-S300 as well as the LG drive in the computer. They are probably made of such a poor quality material that they go bad in a few months instead of ten years or so like they're supposed to.

DVD Identifier shows they were manufactured by Ritek, so I would stay away from both Memorex and Ritek to be on the safe side.

That's funny, all I've ever used is Memorex BD-R's .... I bought my LG burner in October 2008, and I've probably burned 60 BD-R's in that time and I've never had one go bad. (I've distributed them to a number of different people with no problems reported) Sebaz may have gotten a bad batch .... I know such a thing was common with DVD's.
-Dan

I'm using a Pioneer which seems to be getting the job done with no problems. I stick with the Verbatim brand of blank discs.

Chad

I bought a LG BD390 which has built in 802.11N, and supports DLNA so I can stream my videos from my server to the player. I also use it for streaming NetFlix which is built in.

I've generally be happy with the player. One disappointment - the 802.11N is 2.4GHz only, not dual band.

LG is releasing a new model in a month or so but the specs haven't changed much.

Jerry

Ritek is a well-known coaster manufacturer. I was tearing my hair out when I used them years ago...

So a good match for Memorex.

"Is it live or is it Memorex?"
"No, this disk is dead, so it must be Memorex..."

:O)

Interesting. I've never used anything but Ritek Ridata printables and have never had a coaster.

Jerry

"I bought a LG BD390 which has built in 802.11N, and supports DLNA so I can stream my videos from my server to the player. I also use it for streaming NetFlix which is built in."


I did not know you could stream from a BD burner? That is very interesting.

RZ

LG BD390 is a stand-alone Blu-ray player.