LG's HR400 Profile 2.0 Blu-ray recorder gets outed

by Darren Murph posted Jun 1st 2009 at 8:33AM

So, why can't Yanks get ahold of these Blu-ray recorders again? All pent-up rage aside, what we're looking at above is LG's yet-to-be-formally-announced HR400, a Blu-ray recorder that will evidently be aimed initially at the European market. Packing BD-Live (Profile 2.0) support, a built-in DVB-T TV tuner and YouTube compatibility, this deck also arrives with 160GB of internal hard drive space for holding OTA recordings. Heck, this thing can even play back DivX HD files, stream media clips from other places on your network and upscale DVDs to 1080p. Is all that worth €599 ($852)? We're saying no, but you and your wallet can make your own darn decisions.

Filed under: Blu-ray, Players, LG, Internet

Tags: bd, bd live, bd player, bd-live, BdLive, BdPlayer, blu-ray, blu-ray player, blu-ray recorder, Blu-rayPlayer, Blu-rayRecorder, DVB-T, HR400, LG, profile 2.0, Profile2.0, youtube

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Crabby @ Jun 1st 2009 11:42AM

I would love to have one of these, but as much as I love HD stuff, I wonder what kind of DMCA limitations exist on recording?

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Matthew @ Jun 1st 2009 11:01AM

I am sure others will agree with this statement:

Come on now!!!! Please release a stand-alone BR recorder in the US.

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GaryMc @ Jun 1st 2009 11:00AM

I need this! (at a more reasonable price)

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MediaPolice @ Jun 1st 2009 12:58PM

The reason these don't hit the US at the same time or soon after is the MPAA.

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EatingPie @ Jun 2nd 2009 11:29AM

This is not necessary at all, it lacks THE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE.

If you have an OTA receiver and a firewire connection, you can record straight to an HDD. OTA is not (and cannot be) encrypted. Even if you have a firewire cable box -- by law, if you ask for one, they have to give you one -- the OTA channels are not encrypted from the cable box, even if all the others are. So it's a straight dump to the ol' HDD.

That means an *OTA* recorder has limited use -- especially for that price! -- unless you're dead-set on recording to BD.

What's missing is 5C compatibility. With 5C, you could plug it into your cable box and record ANYTHING. Something that no device on the market can do right now! (Hauppauge records component A->D, not the raw digital transport stream.) Why we don't have 5C compatible BD recorders in the US is beyond me. Its a travesty. Something LG cold have rectified, but didn't. :-(

-Pie

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