Samsung Equipping Its Blu-Ray Players with Netflix Streaming
Samsung Equipping Its Blu-Ray Players with Netflix Streaming
Posted 10/23/2008 at 10:58am
| by Paul Lilly
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Netflix continues to lay the groundwork for subscribers to stream movies and television shows to their TV sets with yet another partnership announcement. This time around, it's Samsung who the online rental service is cozying up to, as owners of Samsung's BD-P2500 and BD-P2550 Blu-ray disc players now have the ability to instantly stream content from Netflix's catalog.
As you might recall, a similar announcement was made with LG last summer. In addition to the $99 Roku set-top player and upcoming fall dashboard update to Microsoft's Xbox 360 console, Netflix subscribers have a bevy of options to choose from in streaming content to the living room.
"Samsung presents a new value proposition for Blu-ray players by posititioning it as a portal to a world of engaging digital content, be it Blu-ray discs, movies from Netflix, or other online content," said Reid Sullivan, VP of Marketing, Audio/Video & Imaging at Samsung.
Both Blu-ray players sell for about $400, and Netflix points out that existing owners can upgrade their device at no cost by flashing the firmware. Once upgraded, BD-P2500 and BD-2550 will have access to Netflix's growing library of 12,000 movies and TV episodes.
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alterseekers
January 11, 2011 at 11:50am
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FenixSS
October 24, 2008 at 2:24pm
Anyone know the difference between the two models? I can't seem to find it. They're both listed at the same price, $399.99, I wanna return my 1500 for one of these, but wanna make sure I get the model with "better" not just more features. I understand that either way, a firmware upgrade is needed to do the netflix thing.
Ignorant_Techie
October 23, 2008 at 11:51pm
Sony may be losing (by a slim margin) the argument that the PS3 is the best Blu-ray player out there. Seems to me like they have to step up and develop something or partner with somebody to do the same thing. Of course, there are third party applications out there that will do this for the PS3...
FenixSS
October 23, 2008 at 6:03pm
I just got my Samsung BD-1500...at least I can take it back and get the correct one, MAYBE. I don't suppose any plans to make the Netflix service available for the 1500?
SysAnalyst
October 24, 2008 at 5:20am
While a TiVo/Netflix deal would be awesome, I'd just be happy to get HD content from the Amazon service TiVo has already partnered with. I hesitate to download movies through Amazon on my TiVo since, for the same money, I could rent a Blu-ray version.
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