I was talking about this to a friend of mine this
week, and she says she has an HDTV that streams
HDTV from Netflix, and all she had to do was
use her controller for the HDTV to enter the SSID
of her wireless router. She doesn't have Blu-ray.
Apparently her HDTV is entirely "internet ready"
like the guy at Best Buy was saying ????????
She says the "computer" is the hand-held
controller that came with her HDTV. It is a
small computer with wireless NIC, and it talks
to the HDTV which is also wireless. Her DVD
player is not even in the picture. She has one,
but it has nothing to do with the communication
to Netflix. She was told if she wanted a Blue-ray
DVD player to talk to her router, she should go
"ethernet-over-ACpower .. takes 2 modules to
couple ethernet into her house power lines.

That little controller box is what I did not know
about apparently. It looks suspiciously like a
game console too :-)

This is really getting out of control. I"m going
to wind up with a closet full of useless, but
working, computer parts if I'm not careful.

johns