Sony DMXNV1 Bravia Internet Video Link

Watch Internet video from the comfort of your couch with the DMX-NV1 Bravia Internet Video Link. This easy-to-attach module lets you stream Internet video to compatible BRAVIA HDTVs over your broadband Internet connection. The DMX-NV1 stays hidden behind the TV keeping your home theater setup clean and uncluttered. Using the award-winning Xross Media Bar and your TV remote control, you can intuitively browse select online music videos, movie trailers, user-generated videos, personalized weather, traffic feeds and more with no additional download or access fees. Internet video providers include AOL, Yahoo!, and Grouper (and more as they become available).

The unit works great with the Bravia TV. The HD download worked and look forward to more availability.

Like many of the other reviewers, I often getting choppy video. I was using a wireless connection, but switched to a wired Ethernet to speed things up. It is better, but still not good enough. I've clocked my cable service at about 2.5 Mbps, but it varies by time of day and day of week of course. I'm hoping to switch to fiber soon. That may give me the faster, consistent bandwidth that is needed for this product.

The Sony BIVL is a cool concept but as typical with Sony its a half baked product. If you want the best VOD system with the highest quality picture available you should check out the Vudu VBX1000. Movie selection is awesome with over 6000 titles in both SD and HD quality plus TV shows and the AVN channel. The box is expensive but well worth the price for the superior GUI and integration features if you have any type of advanced remote control system.

Mostly I want to underline what the other reviewers have said. The U-Tube videos (and many others) look positively horrible on my big high-def screen, and the search function is clunky, since you have to enter your searches, passwords, etc. via a phone-like display using your remote control. The other sources of content are mostly garbage. Thousands of channels of it - but garbage nonetheless. (Movie trailers for example. Yippee.) I suppose we can hope that over time, the content will improve. Until it does, this will count as one of the dumbest purchases I have ever made. From a technical perspective, the device was easy to connect, and started up more or less okay, after about ten minutes of updates, error messages and start-overs. I have no doubt that the combination of fiber to the home and TV will ultimately result in a revolution in television, but this ain't it.

The BIVL attaches to the back of the TV, and you control it with the TV remote. It has YouTube, clips from a variety of sources, and just recently, Amazon Unbox. The interface consists of some nice semi-transparent menus over a soothing blue background. That's the good part. The downsides are many, compared to the AppleTV (ATV) which is similar: - The interface always seems to lag a little compared to the ATV. - We have fast internet, but Amazon Unbox is much slower than ATV, and doesn't show trailers. Painful. - Most of the other programming is junk, some of which I had to block on my home router since I didn't want my kids watching it and there aren't any parental controls that I could find (e.g. "Fright Night" movie) - Directions on hooking it up aren't very good, took me about an hour to realize that you have to plug in the USB cable between the device and the TV to allow the remote to control it. Bottom line, we have an AppleTV and the BIVL, but we rarely use the BIVL -- mostly when we find ourselves thinking, "Gee, there's gotta be *something* good on there..." There hasn't really been much yet that wasn't on the ATV. If you don't want an ATV, though, this at least lets you watch YouTube clips and Amazon Unbox movies/TV shows. If hulu shows up on either, my story will change.