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(More customer reviews)This review addresses only the wi-fi & netflix functionality of this player. I think that's fair since you shouldn't be considering it unless you are specifically interested in those features. If you aren't, there's a wide variety of capable, non-networked blu-ray players that are much less expensive.
First off, the wireless card in this player didn't impress me. I had it in my living room where my laptop always has a strong wireless signal, but it had trouble maintaining a connection at all and rarely had a strong enough signal to accomplish much. This may have contributed to my difficulty getting set up and connected to my Netflix account. In the end I couldn't get the Netflix software to work at all until I upgraded the firmware. The network update seemed to take forever -- after 30 minutes and 10% progress I just gave up and downloaded the update from the Philips support site via my laptop and updated the player using an SD card. This worked fine.
When I moved the player into the same room as my base station the connection was fine, so that may not be an issue for you depending on your layout. But even if you get a good signal on your network, I'd still prepare for disappointment in the Netflix interface. The only thing you can do is browse and stream shows that are ALREADY in your instant viewing queue. You cannot search by title or browse recommendations, new releases, etc. You need to go to your PC or phone and add things to your queue in order to stream them through the player.
Another minor complaint, there is no USB port for media, only an SD card slot which would be fine except it only seems to play JPEG or MP3 off of an SD card -- no video support.
I ended up deciding that wi-fi and netflix are probably secondary considerations on a blu-ray player and I went with a dedicated network media player instead (NMP-100). For me this works much better.
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