<p>I want to buy a Blu-ray player with WIFI but I am lost as to what is important to look for and what brand is the best choice. Does anyone have input on this? Thanks!</p>
<p>H bought a Samsung recently- he checks Tech Bargains and found a sale. CNET.com has good electronics reviews.</p>
<p>Any of the “name” brands (Sony, Panasonic, Samsung etc) are going to work just fine. Shop based on price. Just be sure the model you look at has the WIFI already built in as opposed to “WIFI ready” which requires the purchase of an additional piece of hardware to make the WIFI connection. also make sure the model you are looking at is compatible with the particular online movie streaming service you intend to use. If you happen to already have a Sony Play Station 3 or a Wii in the house, they are already WIFI capable and all you need to do is get a free disk from NetFlix to be able to stream movies.</p>
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I agree. A PlayStation 3 would probably be the best option if you’re looking for a Blu-ray player with WiFi. And the fact that it now allows instant Netflix streaming makes it a better choice than most other Blu-ray players</p>
<p>I am not sure if the wifi for high def. tv is good or not. My experience with wifi on computer watching hulu and such is not sterling, much less quality than hardwire connect. The problem is the constant buffering. I have a 12 meg bandwidth internet service and I have a “802.11n” router.</p>
<p>What is your experince?</p>
<p>I’m thinking of going this way in a few months. However, I have no idea what type of wireless router to get. When I read reviews about routers, it seems most of them have bad reviews.</p>
<p>We are trying to get our Acer netbook to feed Hulu onto our Sharp LCD tv.
Husband bought a ‘VGA’ cable and attached netbook to TV.
Then we ran through the imput choices on the tv screen using the remote.
We DID get the TV to display the acer netbook desktop wallpaper but NOT the Hulu program we were running on the acer.</p>
<p>Any ideas what we’re doing wrong?</p>
<p>@musicmom, </p>
<p>If you can see the acer’s destop on tv, you are 90% successful, now fire up the browser on Acer and goto hulu.com.</p>
<p>The only thing you have to do now is to buy a Y RCA spliter so you can connect the acer’s audio port (one plug and stereo) to the tv’s sound port (2 plugs and mono) thus we call it a Y splitter. be sure to buy the correct size on each end, Radio Shak has it but they are Expensive.</p>
<p>Otherwise, you have to listen to the voice using that small speaker on laptop.</p>
<p>art- thanks for tips on the audio…will give info to my ‘technology expert’ ie husband.</p>
<p>But what about the video?? After seeing the desktop, we did pull up hulu on the netbood, expecting it to display on the tv. But while a hulu show is running on the acer, the tv is only showing the static desktop wallpaper.
How to get the hulu program to run on the lcd tv?</p>
<p>Ok, I miss read your post. Let me think… it happened to a Mac also. Has the wall paper but no image. I think you might want to play the <cntl> F8 on the acer or whatever the screen transition key on the acer to make it work. I mean, each computer has a different function key to control the video port, the choices are: laptop video, video port or both, keep on hitting the key, the screen output will toggle between the three.</cntl></p>
<p>On my HP here, it is <cntl> F4, they do not have a standard.</cntl></p>
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<p>Actually, most of the routers are pretty standard, get the one with 802.11b/g/n standard. The N standard is the key, its the fastest wifi you can get. You also need to make sure the computer also has the same N standard wifi capability to connect at the matching speed.</p>
<p>Now, if you have a poor reception because too many walls in between the router and the computer, then you need a repeater in between. Lets say you run your router in the basement and you try to get the signal in your bedroom on the third floor, because the distance and the number of barriers in between, you will have a problem to get the signal. So, you need a wifi repeater in between, both routers must be connected by wires.</p>
<p>The best way to connect is to rewire the entire house with cat 6 cable, I have done that with cat 5 in my house 10 years ago and it costed me $2,000.</p>
<p>We have Comcast for our ISP and use an Apple Airport Extreme as our router. It is an n protocol @ 1 gigabit speed. The router is located in the front bedroom of our house and our Blue Ray player (a Sony PS3) is in the master bedroom at the rear. The streaming picture quality on a 32 inch LCD HD TV is superb with no delays for buffering. I don’t know if that’s because of the speed of our internet connection, the speed of our network, the ram in the PS3 or a combination of all 3, but it works great.</p>
<p>Excellent Netflix streaming on our 720p Panasonic 50" plasma with our Time Warner internet service (not the fastest/most expensive offered) and D-Link extreme n router to the blu-ray player, all but the player are a few years old by now. H also does streaming via his computer and a Samsung LCD TV (uses the TV as his monitor). Agree the “n” is needed for the router, don’t know if “extreme n” now standard and now plain n is the same for most brands.</p>
<p>Spending thousands of dollars to rewire a house not for us. We have the best of the middle range equipment thanks to H, not the high end- you can spend thousands on just one speaker if you want to!!!</p>
<p>artloversplus, HUZZAH!</p>
<p>On my acer, it’s actually Fn F5, toggle between display outputs.</p>
<p>MANY thanks!</p>
<p>I know wifi is the current technology, but are you sure you need it? i had every intention of buying a wi fi blu ray player but the sales guy actually talked me into a wired one as my router is right next to where I was putting it, so the connection speed will be faster and directly linked. Wound up saving me almost 100 bucks by going to the non wi-fi one.</p>
<p>^^musicmom, I am glad to be of help… :)</p>
<p>Regarding the wired vs wifi, it is always wired faster. I have tested both on many differnt things, including the desktop and laptop computers and boxtop internet tv’s. That is why for the real serious internet/LAN users, they always want to spend money to wire it up. However, If wifi works for you than more power to you.</p>