Sony Adds Netflix, YouTube, Slacker To Blu-ray Player, LG Adds Vudu

**admin** · 10 Sep 2009, 02:17 PM

Another major brand has added video streaming to its Blu-ray player range, and this time it's Sony. Despite video streaming being seen as a competitor to Blu-ray, Blu-ray's founding father Sony has decided to go with the trend and add Netflix, YouTube and Slacker support to its new BDP-N460 player.

Not to be outdone, LG is adding Vudu support to it's BD390 player, via a firmware update later this month. The firmware will give the LG player the same functionalities as a Vudu set top box. The LG player already has Netflix, YouTube and CinemaNow streaming, as well as local network media file streaming and includes Wi-Fi connections.

It certainly seems that Blu-ray players are fast becoming trojan horses for video streaming services, which would have otherwise faced extreme difficulty in trying to organise a rollout of set top boxes into people's home. The key is Blu-ray Profile 2.0's Internet capabilities and on-board storage.

More on the Sony player:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10346782-1.html

More on the LG Vudu upgrade:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10347291-1.html

**UncasMS** · 10 Sep 2009, 06:13 PM

And Samsung has added Youtube, MKV and NTFS USB support with their latest firmware (at least for 1600 + 3600) early September

drfsupercenter · 11 Sep 2009, 12:19 AM

Can't the PS3 play videos from an external hard drive?

10 Sep 2009, 02:17 PM	#1
admin Administrator Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 5,182	Sony Adds Netflix, YouTube, Slacker To Blu-ray Player, LG Adds Vudu Another major brand has added video streaming to its Blu-ray player range, and this time it's Sony. Despite video streaming being seen as a competitor to Blu-ray, Blu-ray's founding father Sony has decided to go with the trend and add Netflix, YouTube and Slacker support to its new BDP-N460 player. Not to be outdone, LG is adding Vudu support to it's BD390 player, via a firmware update later this month. The firmware will give the LG player the same functionalities as a Vudu set top box. The LG player already has Netflix, YouTube and CinemaNow streaming, as well as local network media file streaming and includes Wi-Fi connections. It certainly seems that Blu-ray players are fast becoming trojan horses for video streaming services, which would have otherwise faced extreme difficulty in trying to organise a rollout of set top boxes into people's home. The key is Blu-ray Profile 2.0's Internet capabilities and on-board storage. More on the Sony player: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10346782-1.html More on the LG Vudu upgrade: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10347291-1.html __________________ Visit Digital Digest and dvdloc8.com, My Blog

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