Blue Ray Update

We, certainly I in particular, have been very pleased with our Blue Ray player. Probably the most noteworthy aspect of it is how little we actually use it as a Blue Ray player. Thus far, we’ve watched 2 BR discs with it. The vast majority of the usage is as a media center.

I’ve been using it to play music from my Pandora account almost constantly. I’ve always enjoyed having background music and when I first started using Pandora I was very pleased with the product. The BR player then solved a problem for me- how to get Pandora connected to our main stereo system. I frequently used my EEE for this purpose, but it was a little kludgy. The BR player has a Pandora application that works great. The only kludge involved is that the sound plays from our flatscreen TV’s audio out- a consequence of using the HDMI connection from the player to the TV.

We also signed up for NetFlix and have been able to go and select from a decent variety of cartoons to stream through the BR player. A plus for the kids since we can give them a little more variety for their Saturday morning fare. An added bonus is access to some oldy-but-goody cartoons and shows. Fraggle Rock, anyone? No? How ’bout Voltron? or Scooby Doo?

Definitely a worthwhile purchase.