Wi-Fi ready means you will need a wireless link to be ablt to connect to the internet without wires, cost about $60. so this might not be such a great deal. I have 2 of these and they are hard to program to access netflix, etc... wireless. Also once we change the internet provider we were unable to reprogram, waste of money.

I bought a Samsung Blu-Ray for the network capabilities as well as the Blu-Ray. It will play Pandora and access Netflix, but their support is lacking. No Amazon video, Pandora doesn't look as good as a friend's Samsung TV. And playing stuff off my server (or USB) was a total failure. It wouldn't play DVD images, so I converted to MP4. It would play those, but not the foreign subtitles. FF and REW over DLNA is terrible. I gave up and got a WD TV Live Plus, and actually ended up getting three of those.

Love this box, personal installs, USB play (thumb and drives...not sure it'll power a stand-alone though), and has played every MKV rip I've thrown at it...Though the BR are choppy