Tip: Buy a Bluray Player With Streaming Capabilities
One way that I am learning Spanish is with a new Bluray player. Many of the Bluray players on the market today having streaming capabilities. From the comfort of your coach or favorite chair you can watch Spanish movies from NetFlix with English Subtitles.
With some bluray players you can also watch You Tube videos, including all of the Spanishdict Learn Spanish videos by Paralee and many other free lessons on learning Spanish from other sources. These are many other video and audio sources in addition to You Tube.
Some of the new players also allow you to play any videos or audio files from your home computer network. These have an ethernet port which allows you to connect directly to your network via an ethernet cable, which is the fastest method for communicating with your network. Some also permit wireless connections, which is nice, but somewhat slower than via cable.
Try it, you'll like it!
By the way, I believe that an Xbox can do all of the above, including playing bluray discs, with a added advantage of being able to play games.
Do some research to find the unit which best suits your needs and pocketbook.
You can find some pretty good units for around $200.
2 Answers
I have a Wii and yesterday I signed up for Netflix. They say the video is not so good on the Wii when using Netfix but I think it is pretty darned good and it will be better when I get the component cable that I ordered. The picture is not taking up the whole screen and I have been told that the cable will fix the problem.
So far all of the movies in Spanish are way above my pay grade, but if I watch them enough maybe something will soak in.
I agree with kenhuizenga, if you buy a new blue ray player be sure it is NetFlix capable. For $7.99/mo you can watch movies and TV until your head melts.
That's an awesome idea!
Thanks kenhuizenga!
