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(38,317 posts)It's one of those models that does everything -- from playing CDs to displaying family photos from a USB stick, and maybe allowing China to spy on you. It also has a web browser, but the browser is pretty useless because the only way to navigate or enter text is by the arrow keys on the remote control. If you plug a keyboard or mouse into the USB port the machine ignores it.
I just looked on Amazon and that particular model is long gone, I just get lot's of suggestions for Ultra HD Blu-ray players.
We were originally watching Netflix on our Nintendo Wii. Years ago one of our kids was home from college (same kid who decided we *needed* Netflix), took pity on us, and bought us a little Chromecast Dongle.
We used Chromecast for a few months but neither my wife or I liked using our phones or laptops as remote controls, mostly because when we're watching Netflix we don't want to be interrupted by work and the easiest solution is to shut off the damned phones and laptops and leave them in another room on their chargers.
Which is why my wife bought the "smart" DVD player.
We have a 1080p flatscreen television which we bought before televisions were smart. It's connected to the DVD player, the Wii, and (don't laugh) the VHS video cassette player.
I first logged onto the internet in the late 'seventies and have been here since. We're fortunate to have a local Internet Service Provider. When we first signed up with our ISP, Pacific Bell (now AT&T) and Comcast simply didn't offer residential internet service.
Comcast Xfinity and AT&T Uverse send me absurd amounts of junk mail which only hardens my resolve to never do business with them.