Western Digital Unveils WD TV Live HD Media Player
Western Digital Unveils WD TV Live HD Media Player
Posted 10/13/2009 at 4:41pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Western Digital has announced the second iteration of its TV connected media player. The new WD TV Live HD takes all that was awesome about the old, and adds some new tricks. The box still has wide codec support for playing files from USB drives, but it now also streams content from Youtube, Pandora, and Flickr. Users can also connect network drives to the new version to view files.
The WD TV Live HD, as the name would suggest, outputs 1080P HD video via a HDMI 1.3 port. Composite and component are also available. If you need to get video off that USB drive and on to your TV, the WD TVs provide an attractive alternative to media center PCs. The new WD TV device has an MSRP of $149.99.
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Newcomber
November 24, 2009 at 4:29pm
Harry Popman, I just bought WDTV-Live. It is promising a lot of features. It says, can play most popular formats! WRONG! Most youtube videos I download are > flv format (flash video) The WDTV-Live player does not recognize this as "most popular format" Unless one goes to the lenghty process of converting all flv.videos to another format, you can not play them on WDTV. I wished I had known this beforehand. Does anyone know how to get around this problem? Another disappointment is, it does only come with a CD disk containing the user manual with 173 Pages, NOT a printed version! It is definitely rather complicated and not as simple as they say, it's not "childsplay" (If it was, you would not need 173 pages to explain all)
JohnP
October 13, 2009 at 9:13pm
Can we finally admit that there is a plethora of Media Players out there? It's as bad as netbooks. Then add servers and NAS for more competition. HTPC for me thanks. Runs everything, plays everything, webs everything.
WFUJay
October 13, 2009 at 7:25pm
I have the first version of one of these and I love it. Just wish they would have added DTS support in this version. With that said, when I upgrade, I'll be getting the Seagate player since it does support DTS. Not everyone can afford a fancy receiver and surround sound.
Taz0
October 14, 2009 at 6:53am
Awww I can't believe WD cheaped-out again on a DTS license. I thought they'd get it right the second time around. Well that rules it out as a viable purchase for me.
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