Gray
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I've been in the market for a few weeks looking at Blu Ray players, i'm aware that they have the wireless and also the basic ones, so i figured that i should really look into getting a wi-fi enabled Blu Ray Player should one arise.
Initially i had my eye on the LG BD570 Blu Ray Player but it was a little bit more expensive than i really wanted to shell out. Today however on the Amazon Black Friday promotions, i seen what seemed to be an excellent Blu Ray player, turned out that came in at the same price as the one above, except seemed much better. Sony BDP-S570B 3D Blu Ray Player but since i didn't get it, i cared not for it.
While searching some more, i seen another LG model, however this one didn't have WiFi built in, instead you needed to purchase the WiFi Dongle as an additional extra for it to become activated. The LG BD650 Blu Ray Player was cheap, and almost perfect, except then i seen you needed the dongle for it, which therefor would have made it on-par with the BD570, so there was no point.
I will likely end up choosing the BD650 because its cheap, and it's also in my local Asda store. But the question i need answering before i do this is, i won't be using the WiFi dongle for it, therefor wireless is out of the question.
I thought the only way i could stream movies from my internet to the blu ray player would alternatively have to be done through an ethernet cable. A very large ethernet cable. Again, this was ruled out because it wasn't practical - It swayed me back in the direction of getting a WiFi enabled blu ray player.
But no, i was told that with the new technology, it's perfectly acceptable to use HDMI cabling from your TV to your blu ray player - and it would work.
Colour me confused - But how is this possible? Is it lies? Or will the blu ray player merely "piggy back" on the connection of my Virgin Media V+ box, meaning it can stream movies through that instead?
Initially i had my eye on the LG BD570 Blu Ray Player but it was a little bit more expensive than i really wanted to shell out. Today however on the Amazon Black Friday promotions, i seen what seemed to be an excellent Blu Ray player, turned out that came in at the same price as the one above, except seemed much better. Sony BDP-S570B 3D Blu Ray Player but since i didn't get it, i cared not for it.
While searching some more, i seen another LG model, however this one didn't have WiFi built in, instead you needed to purchase the WiFi Dongle as an additional extra for it to become activated. The LG BD650 Blu Ray Player was cheap, and almost perfect, except then i seen you needed the dongle for it, which therefor would have made it on-par with the BD570, so there was no point.
I will likely end up choosing the BD650 because its cheap, and it's also in my local Asda store. But the question i need answering before i do this is, i won't be using the WiFi dongle for it, therefor wireless is out of the question.
I thought the only way i could stream movies from my internet to the blu ray player would alternatively have to be done through an ethernet cable. A very large ethernet cable. Again, this was ruled out because it wasn't practical - It swayed me back in the direction of getting a WiFi enabled blu ray player.
But no, i was told that with the new technology, it's perfectly acceptable to use HDMI cabling from your TV to your blu ray player - and it would work.
Colour me confused - But how is this possible? Is it lies? Or will the blu ray player merely "piggy back" on the connection of my Virgin Media V+ box, meaning it can stream movies through that instead?
