Sony TVs and Blu-ray Players Gain Opera Browser


Brought up during the 2010 CES and come to fruition during CES 2011, Sony continues to stick to its promise of making sure that the majority of its fleet is connected to the web. From their 2011 lineup alone, Sony will be offering 22 of their 27 TVs with internet connectivity, allowing them to access services such as Sony Music Unlimited Streaming Service and Video on Demand: Qriocity, as well as Netflix, Pandora, HuluPlus, Amazon Video on Demand, YouTube, Slacker Internet Radio, Crackle, Blip.tv. If you still want more, Sony engineers will agree with you as they plan to add the Opera browser to those 22 Bravia sets and select Blu-ray players. Though details are still slim, the Opera browser will be based off the latest SDK backbone which includes standards like HTML5 but no native Flash support which probably means better performance, a thought process that Apple shares and agrees with.

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