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Something like this?

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In Reply to: RE: Fed up with cable idiocies? How about a wireless LAN for streaming Netflix ? posted by Sondek on March 25, 2010 at 07:53:19

Sondek,

I've never had any experience with networks of any kind, and think I'm only beginning to understand a bit about the use of a Blu-ray to retrieve Netflix movies. -Comments will be partially conjectural,..

The Blu-ray player only has the ability to receive the properly formatted data stream from the network, not act as a browser.

My understanding is that To watch a Netflix streamed movie, I would need a computer and router- wired with an Ethernet cable or WI-Fi wireless. If wireless, the router needs to be of certain bandwidth- Mb per second, and protocols/formats. To watch a movie, it's necessary to use the browser on the computer from which the signal will pass through to go to the Netflix site. You select a movie that is in the download list and I think press a button on the listing that says "PLAY". After that selection, a screen on the computer informs that the movie is ready to play. I then walk into the room where the Blu-ray player and TV are, the Blu-ray will display on the TV a Netflix icon, that icon will say something like "There's a movie that's been waiting for you hours to come in here and press "PLAY", or select the icon and await directions. When the movie is running, it may be stopped, rewound, fast forwarded, slow motioned, and so, all from the Blu-ray remote.

Or, something like that,..

Cheers,

Bambi B

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RE: Something like this? - Sondek 08:14:37 03/26/10 (0)
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.
You don't need a computer, just a hi speed connection...//nt - MaxwellP 17:29:59 03/25/10 (1)
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- Let me ammend that.... - MaxwellP 17:34:02 03/25/10 (0)
  you don't need a computer for the netflix connection, but you'll need a computer to manage your streaming account with netflix.

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