Yamaha BD-S477 Wi-Fi Blu-ray Disc Player with Built-in Wi-Fi, 0.3W Standby Power Consumption, Black

The Yamaha BD-S477 Wi-Fi Blu-ray Black Disc Player provides high-definition video and audio. This Blu-ray player supports full HD 1080p Blu-ray disc playback from its HDMI output and can also up convert standard definition DVDs to near HD quality. For high-speed Internet access, this Blu-ray player incorporates Wi-Fi and Ethernet connectivity. Additionally, built-in Miracast and DLNA technology allows you to share content such as photos, music and videos with compatible devices. The HDMI output supports high-resolution surround sound formats such as Dolby TrueHD and DTS Digital Surround for a robust multi-channel surround sound experience. This Blu-ray player's two USB ports allow you to connect devices such as thumb drives for easy playback of multimedia files. The Yamaha BD-S477 also supports SACD media for high-quality music playback.

Wi-Fi CERTIFIED
Certified products provide the best user experience and carry the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED logo, ensuring products meet industry-agreed requirements for interoperability, security and reliability. Choosing Wi-Fi CERTIFIED products enables you to mix and match devices from different manufacturers without worry. All Wi-Fi CERTIFIED products deliver interoperability and industry-standard security.

Wi-Fi Protected Setup
Wi-Fi Protected Setup is designed to ease set up of security-enabled Wi-Fi networks in home and small office environments. It supports methods (pushing a button or entering a PIN) that are familiar to most consumers to configure a network and enable security. It gives consumers an easier approach to set up a security-protected Wi-Fi connection, either between devices or in a network configuration.

Miracast
Miracast is a solution for seamlessly displaying video between devices, without cables or a network connection via an access point. You can do things like view pictures from a Miracast-compatible device (smartphone, etc.) on the screen of the TV connected to this player.

Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD) is the name of a next-generation optical disc format. The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data. The format offers more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc. This extra capacity combined with the use of advanced video and audio codecs will offer consumers an unprecedented HD experience.

BD-Live
BD-Live is a collection of online interactive features that content providers may include with a Blu-ray Disc movie to enhance your enjoyment of that movie, providing you a compelling new world of extended interactivity. BD-Live includes access to studio-specified internet sites that provide you the ability to, for example, download current movie trailers or other exclusive content, play movie related games, enhance the content of their disc, chat with other viewers, play games with other BD-Live connected players and much more. Blu-ray players and movies must both support BD-Live in order to use the technology.

Bonus View
Bonus View functions includes at least Profile 1.0 Version 1.1 compatibility and a secondary video/audio for enhanced commentary or information. The virtual package for new entertainment possibilities with players that offer an SD card slot or USB port.

DVD Video
DVD is essentially a large capacity optical video storage media that contains movies or other video content for home entertainment. DVD has become the standard for video publishing by most movie and video studios.

Compact Disc-Digital Audio
CD, DVD and Blu-ray Disc players equipped with CD Digital Audio capabilities will be able to play audio that has been recorded onto a music CD.

Dolby TrueHD
Dolby TrueHD is Dolby's next-generation lossless technology developed for high definition disc based media. Dolby TrueHD delivers tantalizing sound that is bit-for-bit identical to the studio master, unlocking the true high definition entertainment experience on next generation discs. When coupled with high definition video, Dolby TrueHD offers an unprecedented home theater experience that lets you enjoy sound as stunning as the high definition picture.

DTS Digital Surround
DTS Digital Surround was developed to replace the analog soundtracks of movies with a multichannel digital sound track. This system produces practically distortion-free 6-channel sound (front left and right, center, surround left and right and subwoofer low frequency effect channels for a total of 5.1-channels).

AVCHD
AVCHD is a new format (standard) for high definition video cameras that can be used to record and play high resolution HD images.

HDMI
HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is the first and only industry supported, uncompressed, all digital audio/video interface. With the ability to deliver crystal clear, all digital audio and video via a single cable, HDMI dramatically simplifies cabling and helps provide consumers with the highest quality home theater experience. HDMI can provide an interface between most audio/video sources, such as a set-top box, Blu-ray Disc player, DVD player or AV receiver and a video monitor, such as a high definition television (HDTV) over a single cable. Depending on the model of product, HDMI can support standard, enhanced or high definition video, plus multichannel digital audio on a single cable. It can support all currently available compressed audio formats (such as Dolby Digital and DTS) and most newer HDMI devices can support lossless digital audio formats like Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio. (View the specifications of each product for details on HDMI compatibility.)