RE: Something like this?

Posted by Sondek (A) on March 26, 2010 at 08:14:37

In Reply to: Something like this? posted by Bambi B on March 25, 2010 at 16:08:36:

Bambi,

Reading and posting here yesterday spurred me to do some research. Turns out that my Oppo came loaded with something called Blu TV from a company named Dreamer Corp. I got my Oppo three or four weeks ago and have been out of town for part of the time since then and haven't really had opportunity to sit down w/it and figgure it out, so didn't really understand WTF this BluTV thing is/was. After reading up, seems as though Dreamer has just this year struck a deal with Oppo to put their software on the Oppo. The software, when Oppo is internet connected, is a kind of thin-client application that allows for connection to a portal in the cloud for the down-loading of content. In effect turning the Oppo into a kind of HD set-top box complete with a browser-like user interface. For the moment there is no real content, just some games and other mostly worthless stuff, but, and this is a big BUT ... it proves that the concept works. If you can download these games and run them, you can download and play just about anything including movies. All I need now is for content providers to sign-up to distribute their stuff via the portal. That, I know, is a helluva leap, but am looking forward to seeing where all this goes.

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