LG Blu-ray Box to Get Streaming Video from Netflix
"Netflix fans will soon have another new option for watching movies. On Thursday, the company made famous by sending DVDs to consumers via snail mail announced, in conjunction with LG Electronics, the imminent availability of a Blu-ray disc player that will also allow Netflix subscribers to view streaming video of movies and TV shows."
That's right, it streams blu-ray like their roku box does but it will also play blu-ray discs. To stream blu-ray I suspect you'll need a good broadband connection. It is an interesting way to differentiate the box from other blu-ray disc players, this one also streams from Netflix. Not sure about this one.
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I don't think they're claiming (at this point at least) to play streamed blu-ray quality video, but to play blu-ray from the physical disks and to have the built-in ability to stream the SD content that you can get on a Windows computer or on the Roku box. That was my impression when I read about the LG player yesterday... and it's disappointing that it's only wired ethernet, since my new old house doesn't have Cat5 running all around. Also, it would cost about the same to buy a Roku box and a PS3, and you get to play PS games with that setup.
Yeah, I think you might need to put away your "Jump to Conclusions" mat... The article didn't say anything about streaming HD content. I suspect this will get the same content as the Roku and the XBox until Netflix makes good on their indications they will eventually stream HD content.
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