Connecting Blu-ray player to Internet

[Jeffhs]

Greetings.

I will consult with a customer service representative at Time Warner Cable regarding the issue I am about to describe, but I thought I'd run it by the experts here at VK first to get some ideas.

I have an LG BP-220 "smart" Blu-ray player which works very well with my flat screen and Time Warner cable service; my old DVDs never looked better, thanks to the BP-220's 1080p-upscaling feature. However, I am wondering if I can connect the player to the Internet, to take advantage of the smart-TV functions such as Netflix streaming. I realize I can just hook an ethernet cable to the Internet/telephone RJ-45 modular jack on the baseboard under my desk, but my computer and telephone are already connected to that jack via a two-way splitter. My question is simply this: How would I connect the ethernet cable to the player if both outputs of the line splitter are already in use? I have cable Internet service. Would a second splitter work (to split the first splitter's output again, resulting in a three-way split) or would it just result in too weak a signal to the player -- or, worst case, will it damage the cable system? If for any reason this connection will not work, what other alternatives do I have?


Thanks much.