Crackle offers streaming feature-length movies and television (with a surprising amount of the old cartoon shows like “He-Man” and “Voltron” that children of the ’80s used to watch and love). The streaming website includes clips and trailers for upcoming films, works with independent online distributors, and even produces its own entertainment content.

The “Netflix” of Canada, Zip.ca boasts over 72,000 titles. And, like Netflix, it works with a subscription that ranges from one movie out a time, to eight. They also offer Blu-ray rentals at no extra charge.

CinemaCube is a media player that transmits up to 1280X720 HD (720p). It supports RM, RMVB, MP2, AVI, H.264, VOB, MOV, MKV, DivX, Xvid, WMV video formats, MP3, Real Audio, FLAC, AAC, OGG, WAV audio formats and JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG image formats.

The CinemaNow library contains approximately 14,000 feature-length films, shorts, concerts, and television programs. CinemaNow allows streaming directly to your computer or Web-enabled TV.

Veoh offers a wide variety of movies and TV shows to stream directly to your home computer.

The Samsung BD-P1590 does not comes with a USB dongle but is Wi-Fi compatible. The USB dongle is sold separately but this fine machine has enough features to note, including onboard decoding for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, speedy load times and operational speed and excellent image quality.