Sony Blu Ray Player Usb Wifi

Get access to movies, TV episodes, videos, music and live sports events from Netflix, YouTube, HuluPlus, Pandora, and more. With the Sony BDP-S780 3D Blu-ray Disc Player, you can even video chat with friends and family using Skype. Add an app to your iPhone or Android smartphone and turn it in a versatile remote with full QWERTY keyboard for simplified searching. The Sony BDP-S780 3D Blu-ray Disc Player is also HomeShare compatible which allows you to build a customized wireless music experience for your home. All you need is a Sony HomeShare Network speaker to get started, but you can add other HomeShare compatible devices to build the best system for you.

Amazon Sales Rank: #1260 in Consumer Electronics Brand: Sony Dimensions: 3.97 pounds Sony Internet TV: Get instant access to must-have entertainment, including thousands of hit movies, TV shows, music choices, online videos and games. Plus get new apps delivered to you automatically, so the selection is never outdated and you are always connected to the best entertainment Built-In Wi-Fi: Easily connect to the internet through the home's wireless broadband network Skype capability: Enjoy video conferencing from the living room using BDP-S780 and the Skype service. Download the free "Media Remote" app to the iPhone, iPad or compatible Android phone and turn it into a versatile remote

Most helpful customer reviews 49 of 53 people found the following review helpful. This player competely blew me away! By Bruce W. Bernard I was a little apprehensive about buying this player because I had read some reviews that were critical of the setup and configuration for this device. While that did turn out to be the weakest part of the package, I decided to take a chance because I have always been partial to Sony products. I am sure glad I did. I was so impressed with this player that I decided to write a review. First it is extremely compact. You can check the specs for the dimensions. It fit perfectly in the spot I had for it with plenty of room to spare. One nice design feature is that the vent holes are in the rear so I was not concerned about setting my cable box on top of it. The setup presented a few challenges but if you are reasonably tech savvy you won't have any problems. If you aren't, then get a friend to help you. The interface is much better than I was led to believe If you are familiar with the PS3 it uses the same award winning crossbar navigation. One review I read called it confusing but I am very pleased with it. Basically this little device does nearly everything a PS3 does except play games. (BTW, I bought this for a bedroom. I already have a PS3. If I was buying my first blu-ray player I would recommend buying a PS3 instead.) Here are a few tips for setup. First, the main feature I wanted, Netflix support, did not appear on the menu initially. You have to drill down the menus to select something like "add bonus features." It also helps to have someone help you because I had to run back and forth to my computer and router to press buttons and enter configuration codes, etc. This would likely be the case with any similar device, however. I also recommend that the first thing you do once you get connected to the internet is to update the system software. (This is a nice feature because just like a PS3 or Xbox you can get updates to the system as improvements are made Sony recommends checking for updates every 2 months.) Another tip is that it supports an iPhone app called "Media Remote". That appears on the box but I did not see it in the manual. Just go to the App Store and search for "Media Remote" and you can get an app for no added cost that allows your iPhone (or Android based phone)to act as a remote from anywhere on your network. This is most useful for entering text using the iPhone's software keyboard. Now why do I like it so much? Besides performing flawlessly, there are a lot of extras that aren't marketed much if any. First surprise - there was a 3D Blu-Ray Disc in the box! (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 3D.) I didn't see anything in the ads or on the box advertising this so this was an unexpected bonus. (I bought my player direct from Sony because I had a large number of points built up from my Sony credit card, so I don't know if players purchased from other sources include the disc but I guess that they would) It is probably in the specs but there are USB ports on both the front and the back. If you leave a flash drive in the rear port it acts like a disk drive for BD Live content, although so far I have not been that impressed with BD live. I don't know if it will help performance in other ways, but flash drives are cheap so I put a 4GB drive in the rear port. Another pleasant surprise is that it plays Super Audio CDs. Although this is pretty much a dead format (as is just about everything with the great quality of internet streaming today) it is still nice to be able to play the few discs that I have. I was also pleasantly surprised at the amount of free content available, such as movies from Crackle. It also supports YouTube, Skype, Facebook, Hulu and many others. Actually I think this would be a great device even if it didn't have the blu-ray disc player It also supports a DLNA home network allowing you to stream content from a DLNA enabled comptuer..