Check it out! Blu-ray player required. I wonder if it will work with the PS3?
Update from the L.A. Times:
Meanwhile, upstarts continued to announce products or technologies designed to bring the entire unfiltered Web to the TV screen. Two particularly clever ones came from Orb and Snapstick.
The former recently started selling a $99 device, called Orb TV, that enables people to stream shows from Hulu and other websites to their TV sets, circumventing the problems that have stopped the free version of Hulu from being displayed by the Boxee box and similar set-tops.
Its follow-up, which was announced at CES, is a $19.95 disc that in effect turns any Blu-ray player with BD Live functionality (including those in a PlayStation 3) into an Orb TV device. Like the Orb TV, the Orb BR software relies on a smart phone or a laptop to act as the remote control. Unlike the Orb TV, though, it's capable of delivering video to the TV screen in high definition.
(I can't resist noting how entrepreneurs keep coming up with uses for BD Live functionality that Hollywood studios and consumer electronics companies didn't have in mind when they were drawing up the standard. But then, that's the beauty of standards.)
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