The LG DN898 is a very good player with a lot of great features: it does a good job of upscaling DVDs, it can output at a full 1080p, it supports playback of.mpeg, .avi (xvid/divx) and .srt files, and it can read from most recordable DVD formats as well as from USB. For the most part I have had a very good experience with this player and I would have rated it better if I had not discovered one glaring flaw. The LG DN898 is incapable of displaying 4:3 content in a pillarbox on a 16:9 screen. A pillarbox is the widescreen TV equivalent of a letterbox, the two black bars that appear on the top and bottom of a regular TV screen when playing a movie recorded in widescreen (16:9) format, only on a widescreen TV these bars appear as two black pillars on the left and right sides of the screen when playing fullscreen (4:3) content. This means that any video recorded in a 4:3 aspect ratio will be automatically stretched to fill the screen on a widescreen TV. If you prefer to have your video... Read more

Purchased a LG 47" LCD HDTV for my new apartment and needed a new DVD player to go along with it. I like the LG brand (bought girlfriend a separate LCD HDTV a year ago and it's great) so I wanted to get an upconverting DVD player to match the TV. Not in the market for a BlueRay yet so this was a happy alternative. Provides great clarity on its big sister TV. No clock on the front of the DVD player but I was buying a dvd player, not a clock so I didn't care about that. The remote also controls my LG tv (not sure if it controls all TV brands once programmed). Remote is a little busy with lots of buttons and with numerous small print labels to match. The 'zoom' function came in handy on some DVDs that didn't stretch well on the screen or that had black bars on the sides.

Easy to set up, easy to use, nice looking unit. As a fully functioning upconverting DVD player, it gets the job done.

An excellent DVD player. I can find nothing wrong with this unit. It plays all my DVD's and CD and CD/RW disks perfectly. The initial load time is quick and the setting options are very convenient and easy to understand. If you have an older television , as I do, ( I have a 20 inch Panasonic television that I bought about 10 years ago) you can even choose to set the aspect ratio to play widescreen movies at a normal television screen size. The unit has worked excellently from the start, no freezing or skipping, and plays both new releases and old movies with the same crystal clarity and clean audio. It has a built in memory feature that allows you to power off the unit. So if you were to stop a movie at any time at any spot and then press the power switch from the remote to shut off the player, the next time you press the power button on the DVD player, all you have to do is press "play" and the DVD will start playing from the exact place you stopped it. Very very convenient. The... Read more