9 Products Bring Streaming Media to Your Living Room

Bringing music, TV, movies, and video from the internet to your couch

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9 Products Bring Streaming Media to Your Living Room
Streaming video like internet television is becoming more and more common in the American household. With a simple set-top box or other internet TV device, you can make use of services like Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu from the comfort of your living room. A seemingly limitless sea of content is available through simple navigation on your remote control.

Try one of our 9 ways to access internet media on your home television set. These simply plug in to your home theater setup, and you can get started right away.

1. Samsung 3D / Internet Blu-ray Disc Player

The Samsung 3D / Internet Connectable / Wi-Fi Built-In Blu-ray Disc Player handles nearly all of your media needs. It can play DVDs and Blu-ray discs. More importantly, though, this Samsung player can connect to the internet through your home wireless network. This allows the disc player to stream content from Blockbuster, Netflix, YouTube, Napster, Twitter, and CinemaNow. You can even stream video from your PC to the Samsung disc player.

2. Sony 3D / Internet-Connectable / Built-in Wi-Fi Blu-ray Disc Player

The Samsung 3D / Internet-Connectable / Wi-Fi Built-In Blu-ray Disc Player handles all of your disc-playing desires. More importantly, this Sony internet-connectable disc player works with Netflix, YouTube, and Pandora.

3. Logitech Revue

The Logitech Revue eschews traditional disc options in favor of pure internet television. Right out of the box, the Logitech Revue works with YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Netflix. Additionally, since the Logitech Revue is created in partnership with Google, you will soon be able to use Android applications.

4. Apple TV

The Apple TV is an attractive white box that plugs into your home theater system to instantly enable internet television. Like many such devices, the Apple TV works with YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Facebook, and Twitter. The Apple TV even works with your iPhone to play content on your big screen directly from your phone. Obviously, you can also access movies and music from iTunes using your Apple TV.

5. Roku XD Player

The Roku internet media player allows you to get movies and TV from Netflix, Amazon on Demand, Roku's Newscaster news service, or Pandora. The Roku XD is constantly updating its services with updates, and the available content is always growing.

6. Boxee Box by D-Link

The Boxee Box streams media content to your television from sites like Netflix and Pandora. Even better, the Boxee Box will look at your computer's hard drive and put together a stunning media collection from videos you already own.

7. Xbox 360

Most people think of video game consoles solely for their obvious purpose: video games. However, the Xbox 360 can also stream Netflix to your television when it's not busy playing games. What's more, you can use the Xbox 360 to stream videos from your computer to your Xbox, and thus, to your television as well. You can also use your Xbox to access the Zune Marketplace and download music, movies, and your favorite TV shows.

8. Nintendo Wii

The Nintendo Wii has been a favorite family video game system for many years. With intuitive motion-based controls, the Wii redesigned the way many people regard the gaming hobby. But beyond gaming, the Wii can also stream Netflix directly to your television.

9. PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 is well-known as a quality gaming system with the capability of playing Blu-ray discs. In addition, the PlayStation 3 comes out of the box with many movie and TV options from the PlayStation Network. Even better, you can access Netflix through your PlayStation 3 without a disc.
The ability to plug your home theater network into services like Netflix and YouTube opens up a whole new realm of content. You can instantly stream movies and TV shows without ever needing to download awkward files or drive out to the video store. These are 9 of the best devices to explore that video and bring the internet a little closer to your couch.

Some services, like Netflix, may require a subscription. The details of your subscription will depend on fthe service itself, but you will always have the opportunity to determine whether you want to set it up in the first place.

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