Aside from the 3D upgrade, the BDP-S470 looks to be very close to its predecessor, the BDP-N460, offering a full suite of streaming media services (Netflix, Amazon Video On Demand, Slacker, YouTube), along with standard Blu-ray playback functionality. The press release also states that Pandora will be added to the Sony Bravia Internet video platform in the spring; we’re still trying to confirm if that update will be available to existing products like the BDP-N460. We were also able to confirm with Sony that the new players capable of getting the 3D upgrade will, at the very least, “support the HDMI 1.4 spec for full HD 3D”. Sony hasn’t been able to confirm whether the new players will support the full HDMI 1.4 spec, which includes more esoteric features like an inline Ethernet channel. The bottom line is that full 1080p 3D will be supported. (A Sony rep at CES 2010 told us that the PS3–which has an HDMI 1.3 output–will support full 1080p 3D, but we’re skeptical of that claim since others, most notably Panasonic, claim that full resolution 1080p 3D requires HDMI 1.4.