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Originally Posted by ryoohki /forum/post/15496021
'VIERA CAST technology, introduced in Panasonic's PZ850 2008 VIERA Plasma, is now available in Panasonic's 2009 Blu-ray players. The internet enabled technology lets the consumer access the internet without the need of either an external box or a PC and enjoy the '
I guess it's WIFI???
That doesn't sound like WiFi to me, that sounds like they're just saying it doesn't need some kind of external adapter or bridge. Like those Sony TV's that had an add-on box available to add internet streaming, for example.
They can't mean no external box as in no network infrastructure, because you gotta talk to the router at some point unless they start selling these things with 3G cellular links, which is beyond unlikely.
It just doesn't need a PC or other gizmo to do the heavy lifting, it'll do all the browsing/decoding itself. Still will need a wired connection. If it was wireless they would have bragged about that explicitly.