Blu Ray question

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Need a little help picking out a Blu Ray player for my pops. My question is:

Besides the PS3, is there a Blu Ray player that connects to the internet wirelessly. I know most have an ethernet port for firmware upgrades and for BD live (bonus features, etc), but has anyone come across one where no cable is needed?

My pops has a wireless modum on the top floor, but the Blu Ray player is going in the basement. I'd like to avoid drilling holes in the floor and dropping a CAT-5 down is possible.

I'm sure the BD live isnt a major deal, but firmware updates are often and I've noticed from the PS3 that the Blu Ray playback suffers when the system isnt running on the latest firmware. Some disks won't play at all without the latest firmware.

Thanks for any help you guys can give me

jrock88 · Answer

Need a little help picking out a Blu Ray player for my pops. My question is:

Besides the PS3, is there a Blu Ray player that connects to the internet wirelessly. I know most have an ethernet port for firmware upgrades and for BD live (bonus features, etc), but has anyone come across one where no cable is needed?

My pops has a wireless modum on the top floor, but the Blu Ray player is going in the basement. I'd like to avoid drilling holes in the floor and dropping a CAT-5 down is possible.

I'm sure the BD live isnt a major deal, but firmware updates are often and I've noticed from the PS3 that the Blu Ray playback suffers when the system isnt running on the latest firmware. Some disks won't play at all without the latest firmware.

Thanks for any help you guys can give me

Lippsman · Answer

Just saw the question Jrock.  I will have something for you on Thursday.

Lippsman · Answer

jrock,&#xD;&#xA; &#xD;&#xA;I haven&#x27;t found any wireless ones.  Well not a comsumer model. Just look for one that has a usb port.  Then you can save the firmware update to a flash drive and do the update that way.

jrock88 · Answer

Excellent, thanks Lipps I wasn&#x27;t sure that I could update the firmware by saving it to a flash drive.I really appreciate the response and the time you took to look it up.  As far as the bonus content many Blu Ray discs need to reference the internet.........Do you think getting a bridge would work?  Are there any you would recommend??Thanks again

Lippsman · Answer

A bridge is possible or maybe some of the units will just take a usb adaptor without any drivers to install.  The Wii is like this, most people don&#x27;t know but you can use pretty much any usb wireless ethernet adaptor on it and it will work without the drivers to hook to your wireless network.  But the player would have to have some sort of "browser" built in I believe.&#xD;&#xA; &#xD;&#xA;I will get in touch with some of my company reps about this.

jrock88 · Answer

Very much appreciated

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