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Do I need to let my ps4 bluray connect to the internet?

Very simple question. When I go to play Blu-ray Discs my ps4 asks "do you want to allow Blu-ray Disc videos to connect to the Internet while they are playing?" I always choose No. I have no idea what I'm stopping/allowing. yes or no?

Asked By Wayne, 06-10-2014, 22:57:09 ► Blog ► Ask

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Nessi07-10-2014

BD-Live: Additional content

Back when the Blu-ray format was launched, the ability of players to connect to the internet was touted as a huge advance that would revolutionize the way we watch movies.

The article goes on to say "BD-Live is effectively dead right now."... Hope this helps.
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Wayne07-10-2014

thanks, all good answers. i want to pick Nessi as best answer.

Hangman07-10-2014

thats' the ps4s new peer-to-peer bluray sharing feature. lets you broadcast movies on twitch. :)

brian8807-10-2014

PS3 asks the same. I allow blu-rays to connect to the net. Probably nothing to worry about.

Gi_Joe07-10-2014

Shortly after PS3 launched in 2006 owners were encouraged to allow their PS3s when idle to run complex scientific moleculor research for Standford Univesity's Folding@home project. A huge distributed computing project. Seems to have ended now. I found some talk of folding@home for PS4 but nothing specific.