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LG's Blu-ray players to stream YouTube, CinemaNow

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Home A/V | by Samuel Axon | Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:36PM | 1 comment

Electronics company LG has announced that some of its network-connected Blu-ray players will play video content from online video services YouTube and CinemaNow. Don't rush over and turn on your LG BD300, though; it won't work on current players. The new videos will only be available on new players to be announced at the Consumer Electronics Show next month. It's always nice to have extra content, but are you really going to watch extremely poor quality YouTube videos on your 42-inch HDTV? Up to you, we suppose!

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Stephen Schenck (2:06 AM on Wed Dec 31, 2008)

While YouTube quality doesn't translate well to big screens, I love the YouTube plugins I use with XBMC on my Xbox to access its content away from my PC. For the kind of short clips the service usually features, I can live with the low resolution and artifact-heavy compression. I'm just glad XBMC also has a Hulu plugin for better quality video. A box that supports Blu-ray, Netflix, YouTube, AND Hulu would be unstoppable.

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