W. Godwin
This blu-ray player works fine upscaling DVDs, playing Blu-ray disks, and accessing on-line services like Amazon Prime, and it plays videos from a USB thumb drive perfectly. But its DLNA streaming support is unacceptable. It recognizes (ie - puts the proper icons on the screen) LGs own Smartshare PC server, as well as Plex and Serviio servers (I tried them all in turn), but cant find anything playable on any of them even after they have indexed the library -- all my videos are standard .mp4 (H.264, ACC) that played just fine from my Serviio server on my old Sony Blue-ray unit, so this isnt a transcoding issue. In addition, LG SmartShare seems to have trouble running under Windows 10 - it stalls repeatedly, even after being re-installed several times. SmartShare also cant seem to access my NAS drive, even when I map the media folder to my desktop. Finally, the LG iOS apps (installed on my iPad) cant seem to find the unit, even though they are all on the same wireless network. I gave the unit three stars because for just playing DVDs and Blue-ray disks, and accessing the common on-line services like Amazon Prime and Netflix, it works just fine. But to get five stars it really ought to have a working, easy to set up DLNA streaming solution. I see that some people seem to have gotten DLNA streaming working (but often with problems), so perhaps it does sort of work if one knows exactly how to fiddle all the settings. My previous Sony unit was a snap to set up and had no difficulty accessing all my videos on my NAS drive under Servii UPDATE - After a few days more problems appeared. The unit would lose the wifi connection (in a area with a strong wifi signal), and require a complete new setup, with password, in order to reconnect. Then the remote stopped being recognized, and required a complete power off/power on cycle on the player before the unit would respond to the remote again. I shipped it back for a refund. Apparently quality control is substandard for these inexpensive mass market players. I bought another Oppo blu-ray player instead - pricey, but built like a tank and WORKS. But Amazons return system gets 5 stars!!!