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Because Sony has chosen not to support Pandora (and many other apps). I see someone from 'Sony Listens' commented that Pandora would be added with a future software update - but that was 4 years ago! I recently bought one of these players so I could (1) play BD movies; and (2) so I could use popular apps including Pandora. What I found was very few apps still supported. Boxed it up and took it back to the store. I honestly don't care if it sounds like a tin can ... Pandora and several other very-popular apps are missing. What I'll likely do is go buy a different player ... plus a roku or similar that has the apps I'm looking for.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Hi KitKat, Pandora is not supported at the moment. However, apps will be added to this Bluray player in the future through software updates. Thanks, -Mark
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I don't know. Click on all apps. It should be there.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Stop looking. Sony no longer supports such apps on their newest BD Players. Instead, they support such apps on their new Android 4K TV's. More importantly, their new Android 4K TV's support streaming 4K HDR content from Netflix, Amazon, YouTube and other 4K content providers. It sells their new 4K TV's. Supporting Pandora on their new BD players doesn't do anything for Sony but give them a headache. The reason anyone would buy the Sony UBP-X800 BD player is to play 4K discs and get to really high resolution audio. You simply can't do this otherwise with any BD player. At best you can upscale a Blu-ray disc to 4K on other players. For most people this may be fine. Regarding Pandora, there isn't anything Sony or anyone else can do in hardware to enhance this radio station in terms of sound quality. Pandora sound quality will stink perpetually with the rest of the cloud audio content providers, and there are thousands. The only thing Pandora has over the original transistor radios is that Pandora supports stereo and lacks the characteristic static found on vintage transistor AM radios. Additionally, the broadcast programming on transistor radios was superior compared to Pandora that plays the same songs ad nauseam which they choose for you to hear.
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