You’ll soon be able to stream Netflix movies on certain Samsung Blu-ray players. The official announcement is expected later today, but we already have a couple of details.
From the current player lineup, only the Samsung BD-P2500 and BD-P2550 will be compatible; more players are expected to be compatible as we move forward. You can find those players for around $400 and $300 online, respectively. (Though it looks like Amazon is having a sale on the P2550 right now—only $215. WRONG! See, the BD-2550 is actually$489 on Amazon. Double checking helps sometimes.)
You’ll still need the $8.95 per month Netflix subscription to use the service. Since you’re streaming movies on a Blu-ray player, you might as well pony up the $1 for the Blu-ray rental service, too.
Don’t forget that your Xbox 360 will soon be able to stream movies.
And that’s all we know so far. The official announcement can’t be too far off.
your wrong on the amazon price.. its $489.99 on the samsung P2550
Frank is correct. In fact, the link provided for the $215 Blu-ray player is actually for the Samsung BD-P1500.
Now if Netflix could only release their software for Linux users!
I mean, the Roku player already uses Linux software.
I watch Hulu and YouTube (and broadcast TV) on my Kubuntu Linux laptop already, often connected to my TV.
Linux desktops are now 8% of the market (more than Apple) and growing exponentially.
The only thing I’m missing is watching Netflix on my Linux laptop.
You do realize that the Hulu and YouTube players are flash based and cannot (as of yet) reach the resolution of the NetFlix player…
Does anyone know if Netflix plans on adding the streaming feature for Playstation 3 and not just Xbox?
wrong info on this article.
the $1 blue ray charge is for renting blue ray disc.
There is no streaming blue-ray movie from netflix.
All they stream is low def old movies same as those you got for free from their web site. It’s just that you can watch it from the blue ray player rather than a PC.
It’s not really that great since they don’t put all movie on the streaming catalog. Not even most of the latest popular DVDs.
Apple cost more but at least they sell you new stuff.
I hope sony come up with something better for their PS3.