The LG HR400 Freeview and 160GB HD Blu-Ray player has the following primary functions. Play Blu-Ray discs in full High Definition, play DVDs and upgrade them to 1080p, stream videos from YouTube, Freeview, 160GB HD recording capacity with an 8day programmer guide with series link.
The combination of Freeview, HD recording and Blu-Ray makes this box an impressive unit. One drawback is that you cannot record from Freeview whilst watching another channel unless your TV has a separate Freeview reception. Assuming you can get past this drawback then the unit is very easy to use. The record function is easy to program so you can record onto the HDD from Freeview.
The HR400 is backwards compatible with DVDs and in addition gives the ability to upscale DVDs to 1080P means that you will get an improved picture quality when playing your old DVDs. Freeview+ allows live TV to paused and rewound in the same way Sky+ does.
BD live allows the download of extra content from the movie that is being watched (this only works for selected title.
It is possible for the LG HR400 to replace an existing DVD player, VCR, set top box and give Blu-ray in addition, plus youtube videos.