Cheap Western Digital WD TV Live HD Media Player (05/09/2010)

Western Digital WD TV Live HD Media Player WDBAAN0000NBK-NESN

Price: $99.99

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HD video, photos and music - they're on your computer, on your USB drives, on the Internet, but how do you enjoy them on your TV? Now it's easy! Play a whole world of Full-HD, 1080p media on your big screen TV with the WD TV Live network-ready HD media player.

The WD TV Live HD Media Player from Western Digital has everything you need to play your HD media collection and the fun stuff you find on the web in brilliant HD 1080p on your big screen HDTV. Because it supports a wide variety of file types, you can instantly enjoy all your home digital media, regardless of the file format. Plus you get direct access to a huge selection of video, photos, and music from popular internet sites like YouTube, Flickr, Live 365, and Pandora (U.S. only) right from the beautifully easy WDTV navigation screen. The WD TV Live HD media player is exceptionally easy to use so anyone in the family can do it and, because it’s networked, you can easily access media from any PC in the home.

Review:
Pros: First off, People are saying that the fast forward FFV is terrible even at 16X, well if you hit FF 2X and then hit the >| it will jump about 30minutes forward, no need to use 16X, also it says in the manual that |< and >| are used to scroll a page at a time, this helps tremendously. Did play a MKV that was H.264/DTS audio played perfectly. Plays any ISO dvd file no mounting anymore. Playes almost any type of Audio file, M4A AAC non-drm Itunes plays well.
Cons: I use the network share function, seems to run the circle forever , doing a reset all settings to factory fixes that. Maybe my network shares are messed up, but I have them set to Anon access, Along with the Buffalo NAS. This unit does not like to play really low quality .wav files, or very very lowres .avi files. But it is a HD unit so who cares. Also there is no DVD menu support, it simply starts playing the movie, and skips any menu selections. Cant wait for the netflix support that would be a great addition to this product.
Other Thoughts: Very nice not having to boot up a HTPC and wait for windows to load, and using a wireless trackball remote is a pain. People who say there is no volume, use the TV remote, or your satellite/cable remote, Its right there? Right ?!

 

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