Connect Blu-ray player to wireless laptop to access internet? Has anyone tried to connect the Panasonic BD35 to their wifi connected laptop via an ethernet cable to access the internet with the blu-ray player?
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gojo Well, I can tell you that I talked to Panasonic and you will have to hard player to something in order for it to go online. You will need an ethernet adapter with LAN cable. This is what you would use to play games, so they are called internet wireless bridge, or adapter bridge. Just make sure you can use a LAN cable with it since there are no other options on player. Check out other threads concerning this too. They mention types of adapters to use. Val
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Hi, Arthur! If you're asking if you can plugin the router in your room without using a PC, it depends. If your modem is in the same room where your blu-ray player is, that'll do. You don't always have to use a PC with the router setup.
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Most likely you will have to buy Sony's own Wifi Adapter:Sony USB Wi-Fi AdapterAt least that is true for Sony BDP-BX37 1080p Upscaling Blu-ray Disc DVD Player w/HDMI, LAN & USB from what all the reviews are saying.Sorry for the bad news. Hope you have a happy New Year!
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RhymeBoy.G, Thanks for your post. I want to connect our satellite receiver, blu ray disk device, and plasma tv to the internet by cat5 cable. We have the following: dsl modem>D-link wifi router>desktop pc>wifi laptops. I was not certain if I could connect the entertainment devices through a switch connected to the wifi router. Now I know this will work! Thanks.
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Under BD/DVD viewing settings there is a setting to allow BD internet connection. Not shown in manual.
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simply yes, hook up directly from your cable modem to your blu-ray player. I use this cable from one of the ports of my d-link wireless to my blu-ray player and if you're signed up with Netflix streaming then lot's of watching movies for you...good luck!!
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You don't! This player is meant to hook to an ethernet wire run out of a router. "Wires all over the house" If you want a WIFI get a blu ray player with built in wireless. By the time you get the one wifi adapter that will work with this player you will find it would have been cheaper to get a wireless blu ray. Of course you also need a broadband internet connection to stream video. You can stream video over a cellular connection but expect problems.
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Hi Steve:The firmware for my LG tv only allows to connect with Wireless routers and not with my LG blu-ray deviceThe only way to connect this blu ray it is by using an HDMI port, there is no way to connect wireless TV vs blu ray devices. The only way should be by changing the sofftware fimware from my TV, Which only depends on theLG manufacturer.RegardsSMM
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Good question. If you go to Panasonic's website you can look up the model and click on the support tab. There you can download and view the user manual. You'll see on page 7 a list of USB devices this player is and is not compatible with. My guess is that it will support a USB wireless adapter, but check the list to make sure. If not, it will definately support a wireless access point and ethernet cable. One thing I'll throw out there too is that if you do get a WAP that has more than one output, you could also connect a DirecTV DVR, IPTV or receiver. I have the D-Link DAP1522 connected to my Panasonic DMP-BD35 Blu-ray player (for BD-Live and firmware updates) and DirecTV DVR (for VOD downloads) and still have two ethernet jacks left for the future. With the Panasonic DMP-BD60 you can also access YouTube, Picassa, and will be able to soon access Amazon VOD.
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i read a response on the samsung site that said there have been issues when people are uploading firmware via wifi and their wireless network drops the signal - sounds like the best thing to do is download the firmware from your pc to a USB stick and insert that directly into the blue-ray player. I've ordered system but not installed yet.
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I can access it through my wireless Blu ray DVD player since it is hooked up to my computer as an external hardrive and can view home movies that I have on there. Not sure if that answers your question, but that is the only way I have used it with wireless.
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This is addressed to the person who says the Panasonic BD 77 only plays disks. I have owned mine for several years now and it is connected to the home network via cat5e to my router and it works great for streaming movies and music from my PCs and my NAS. So it does far more than just play disks.
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As far as the cord is concerned, yes. LAN(local area network) refers to what is on the user(your) side of your router. Ethernet is more general term. Yes, you can use this cable to connect your Blu ray player that connects to the internet by wire, to your router.
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I don't think there is a blu-ray player you can plug a computer into to stream movies. Since you can plug your computer into a TV set that has a VGA input, you can stream from your computer to the TV. Alternatively you can encode your movies into AVI and put those files on an external USB disk drive then plug the drive into the blue ray player and stream from that.
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I'm glad to inform you that the Blu-ray Player support Netflix. I have provided a link where you can get more information about activating it and making the network connections. http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/topic/BD-P1400
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Brian L. Peterson, Yes, there is an Ethernet port along with Wi-Fi included in the player itself. Netflix and Vudu are supported Apps on the BD-H6500. Thanks for your interest in Samsung Blu-Ray players. --Mr. S
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The Sony BDP-S560 does not stream internet video from any of the popular services (Blockbuster, Netflix, Amazon).The absence of the ability to stream video makes the built in WiFi, nearly pointless (the only use seems to be to access BD Live content available on some blu-ray discs).The less expensive Sony BDP-N460 Blu-ray Disc Player (Black) with a WiFi adapter (Linksys by Cisco WET610N Wireless-N Ethernet Bridge with Dual-Band is preprogrammed to work with the N-460) or a dedicated Roku HD-XR unit stream video from these services over WiFi.