LG puts its HB954TBW Blu-ray HTIB into Korean streets

by Steven Kim posted May 14th 2009 at 5:50PM

Only last month we saw a positive review of LG's HB354BS HTIB, and the company obviously feels it's on to something good with these HTIB systems, because it has now introduced the similar HB954TBW to its homeland Korean market. This system notches up the channel count to 5.1 (as opposed to the 2.1-channel HB354BS), but still hangs on to the Mark Levinson name-drop, Blu-ray heart and retractable iPod dock that to our eyes looks like a sleek accident waiting to happen. Gather up your won, this one lists out at ₩1,299,000 ($1,030).

Filed under: Blu-ray, Other hardware, Players, Receivers, Speakers, LG

Tags: blu-ray, hb954tbw, htib, korea, lg, lg hb954tbw, LgHb954tbw

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Highly Ranked

Patrick Joseph @ May 14th 2009 6:07PM

If BR movies can do 7.1 then why do they keep making 5.1 systems for it?

Neutral

Richard @ May 14th 2009 7:12PM

Because is harder and cost more $ to make it 7.1 Actually many new asian release blu-ray is support 7.1, some even goes for 7.1 pcm, 7.1 dts master, 7.1 dolby ! U.S. is behind in 7.1 market, right now only 5% blu-ray are 7.1 but i think lion gate and disney is plan to increase their title to more 7.1

Neutral

hmurchison @ May 14th 2009 8:19PM

Spendy for sure but the thing I like about this HTiB is that it offers 2 HDMI inputs. Let's face it if you've got even one more HDMI device many of these integreated HTiB don't handle such a system well. You may have a cable box or a HD Tivo or any other the other HDMI based devices that you want to switch to.

I'm awaiting the reviews on this to see if it's more than gloss and the Levinson name.

Neutral

Smash TV creator talks potential sequel DDR purse is actually kind of neat Minesweeper adventure game in the works for OneBigGame	Droid Does... only have 256MB of storage for apps With AdMob purchase, there's really no escaping Google advertising now Windows 7 security defeated by 8 out of 10 malware applications
Confirmed: 10.6.2 removes Atom CPU support from Snow Leopard Wireless Keyboard Update 2.0 now available Shacking up: iPhone sales plan at RadioShack sparks rally	Ray of light: U.S. temp worker hiring increased by 34k in October Cameron International: Pull-back is an opportunity Twenty years ago today, economic freedom returned to Eastern Europe
Xbox 360 Fancast 142 -- ODSB XBLM Deal of the Week: Saints Row 2 DLC Crackdown HDD installation now available	VIDEO: BMW M3 GTS takes to the track CR&S DUU Concept is a mototerminator for the rest of us Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 11.9.09
PC game sales start hitting early New Left 4 Dead patch adds 4 on 4 competitive matchmaking Atari confirms February 2 launch date for Star Trek Online	Fed-Up K.C. Ownership Pushed to Act FanHouse Preview: Steelers at Broncos Larry Johnson Released, Redskins Already Expressing Interest