Profile 2.0 will have nothing to do with this feature, although in theory it could provide something similar. Maybe one day Netflix will send out a BD which enables any 2.0 player to become a streamer if you boot the player up from it. It sounds feasible.
But for now I see no reason 2.0 should be mandatory. Like it or not, the number of people who would hook up a player to the internet even if they could would be a small fraction of the total. Why should manufacturers be burdened with adding hardware or cost for a feature only a small number of people are going to use? Give it a few years and there might be a reason for a 2.0 player. For now there is practically none at all.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Profile 2.0 will have nothing to do with this feature, although in theory it could provide something similar. Maybe one day Netflix will send out a BD which enables any 2.0 player to become a streamer if you boot the player up from it. It sounds feasible.
But for now I see no reason 2.0 should be mandatory. Like it or not, the number of people who would hook up a player to the internet even if they could would be a small fraction of the total. Why should manufacturers be burdened with adding hardware or cost for a feature only a small number of people are going to use? Give it a few years and there might be a reason for a 2.0 player. For now there is practically none at all.