Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player - WDBHG70000NBK-HESN Review
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Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player - WDBHG70000NBK-HESN Overview
Wirelessly stream the latest movies, hit TV shows, Internet entertainment, and your personal media collection to the biggest screen in the house. With the WD TV Live streaming media player, you can enjoy it all in the comfort of your living room in Full-HD 1080p.
The WDTV HD Media Player is full HD 1080p video playback and is an ultra-compact, USB 2.0 device that attaches to an entertainment unit through a variety of audio/video interfaces and supports playback of major audio, video, and image file formats. It supports high-definition video playback of up to 1080p through an HDMI connection or standard definition for TVs with lower capabilities. It includes remote control, composit AV cable, AC adapter and quick install guide. (Brown Box, Product is Recertified)
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Digital Media Player Guide spin - Western Digital Wd Tv Live Network - Ready Hd Media Player
If you are looking for more bang for your buck then the Western Digital Wd Tv Live Network-ready Hd Media Player Wdbaan0000Nbk-Nesn has some of the best features and capabilities on the market. The Wd Tv live is a very favorite digital media player, and is very rated by its owners for ease of use and functionality. Wd Tv Live added some key upgrades from the previous issue from Western Digital, the Wd Tv. This player is network ready, provides video playback up to 1080p TrueHd and digital sound though the media player optic yield or the Hdmi output. One of the biggest improvements were to the menu law for choosing your media.
Western Digital Wd Tv Live Network-Ready Hd
The Wd Tv Live digital media player is a media streamer that allows you to stream your video, music, and photos to your high definition Tv and play your audio via your home theater system. This player does not come with an internal hard drive, but rather must be connected to a Usb mass warehouse gadget or network containing your media files. The recommended warehouse drive is the Western Digital My Book considerable Usb 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive (1 Terabyte -1Tb Model) which will provide ample room to store lots of movies, photos, and music. As it comes from the manufacturer, the Wd Live Hd is a hard wired network ready media streamer. There is nothing to preclude you from going wireless also with a Usb wireless dongle. A favorite wireless adapter for the Wd Tv Live is the Linksys Range Plus Wireless Usb covenant Adapter that will let you associate to your existing home or enterprise wireless network. Either wired or wireless this digital media player has it's competition cut out for it. It is very similar to the Patriot Box Office Hd and the Hdx1000 Network Media Tank, but it doesn't offer the feature of adding your own internal hard drive to the media player itself. If this isn't a concern then the Wd Tv Live is absolutely a overwhelming media player. It offers the newest and most along with 1080p true high definition straight through Hdmi and Dolby Digital and Dts Encoders. Here are the goods, on the Wd Tv Live:
Includes Hdmi 1.3 port, Supporting up to True Hd 1080p
Connect external hard drives directly or associate to your network to view movies, photos, and music
Usb port for Usb drives
Audio formats: Mp3, Wav/Pcm/Lpcm, Wma, Aac, Flac, Mka, Aif/Aiff, Ogg, Dolby Digital, Dts
Video file formats: Avi (Xvid, Avc, Mpeg1/2/4), Mpg/Mpeg, Vob, Mkv (h.264, x.264, Avc, Mpeg1/2/4, Vc-1), Ts/Tp/M2T (Mpeg1/2/4, Avc, Vc-1), Mp4/Mov (Mpeg4, h.264), M2Ts, Wmv9
Photo formats: Jpeg, Gif, Tif/Tiff, Bmp, Png
Connections: Video: Hdmi v1.3 (up to 1080p), Composite Video Out; Audio: S/Pdif optic Digital Audio, Other: 10/100 Ethernet.
Remote operate Included.
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Supports Video: 1.3c Resolutions: 1080p, 1440p, 1600p, 1920p, 2160p (lower resolutions are also supported).
Supports Audio: Dolby Digital, Dolby Surround 7.1, HD, DirectHD, True HD, 13.1 Audio (lower quality sound is also supported).
Note: cannot be used on a non-HDMI console/player
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Enjoy movies and games today and tomorrow with at up to 2160p resolution and 4k cinema quality!
Superior audio via the Dolby Digital 7.1 & 13.1 Digital Surround Sound Lossless sound output
6.0 feet (2.8 meter) long triple shielded, lossless cable is backwards compatible.
Supports HD Video 1.3b Resolutions: 1080p, 1440p, 1600p, 1920p, 2160p.
If you're a fan of putting your feet up and watching a good flick, and in particular, movies stored on your computers hard-drive, with the quality to view in full Hd, then this minuscule black box may well be the greatest electronics gadget you've been seeing for.
In addition to playing your beloved movies, you can view images in a collection of separate formats as well as playback audio files, straight through the on screen interface with lively Hd menus - read on for a complete list of supported file types!
Hd Media Player
In the past if you wanted to watch a movie file stored on your computer from you had to.....
* Watch it on your computer (oh my aching eyes)
* Burn the file to a disc, the problem here is, if your Dvd player hasn't got the exact Codecs for your video file (I'll touch on Codecs shortly) then chances are the disc won't play anyway, then you've gotta convert the file to a format your player can read & re-burn it! (yawn)
* Plug your laptop directly to the Television via S-Video connection, problem here is a sizable loss of audio/video quality, not to mention it's a right pain in the butt hooking it up every time you want to watch a movie.
* exchange the video file onto an External hard/flash drive, or Sd card and connect via Usb to the Tv/Dvd (provided the Tv/Dvd has Usb ports of course).You'll find many Dvd Players & Digital Televisions nowadays have Usb or Sd card connectivity but you can run into the same problem as with the "Disc Playback Errors" due to the absence of determined Codecs.
I'm going to try and keep this description as easy as I can, because this branch can get confusing very fast and frankly the median person doesn't surely give a flying nun, so..... A "Codec" is a piece of software, that gets its name from the function it performs, ie.enabling Compression/Decompression of a video file. So lets take your median run of the mill Dvd from down the local video Store, it is created with the approved Mpeg4 codec e.g. "Xvid" and can then be played back using any other approved Mpeg4 Codec, such as "DivX" or "Ffmpeg" codecs and so on, and all reside within your household Dvd player.
This is where problems can arise when trying to playback a video file obtained online, because of the huge collection of separate file formats out there and their linked Codecs, many Dvd players just can't identify them and they subsequently won't play.
Enter the, Western Digital Wd Tv Hd 1080p Media Player.
You can connect to your Television using whether a approved Av cable(red,white,yellow) or a singular Hdmi cable, assuming your Tv is Hdmi capable that is, and that's it! All you need now is to plug in your external Hard Drive, or Flash Drive.Two Usb Ports is a great highlight but the addition of an Sd Card Slot would have been a nice for photo viewing.
Note - connection Direct To A Computer Is Not Possible!
If you didn't already know the 1080p basically means "Full High Definition" and that's exactly what you get, when using the Hdmi cable linked to a Hdmi Television. 1080 refers to a screen resolution of 1080 pixels High X 1920 pixels Wide, under the assumption of a 16:9 Widescreen Aspect Ratio.
Supported Video File Formats/Codecs comprise - Mpeg1/2/4, Wmv9, Avi (Mpeg4, Xvid, Avc), H.264, Mkv, Mov (Mpeg4, H.264),
Mts, Tp, Ts
What this means is that the Western Digital will deal with most of the beloved video formats you will encounter on the Internet today, including Mkv (or Matroska) a format becoming increasingly more beloved for it's versatility, having said that there is a few formats absent that other media players in its class support, including Flv, & Rmbv.
* Jpeg only supports compressed Rgb format files. Bmp only supports uncompressed files. Tiff only supports singular layer files. Bmp, Tiff/Tif, Png, and Gif have a max resolution of 2048×2048. Jpeg/Jpg has a max resolution of 4096×4096 unless it is in a progressive format, then maxes out at 1280×720.
Ease of use, setting up is child's play and with all the controls at your finger tips, watching High-Def content couldn't be easier.
The playable formats ready on this unit are more than sufficient for accessing most beloved media including "Mkv" video, which is absent in some other media players in this range.
Full 1080p Hd compatible.
The addition of two Usb ports, connect two drives simultaneously.
Cons -
No Sd card slot, which is ready on some of its competitors units in this range.
Cannot play Flv (Flash Media Files)
Reports of, no audio on some files.
Does the Wd Tv Hd Media Player earn the prize for the greatest electronics gadget when talking about playing movable media at an affordable price?
I think for the money you surely can't go past these types of Media Players, without splashing out a lot more money for the built in Hard Drive versions, if you already own an External Hard Drive or movable Media that's all you need, I might add, the bodily size of your Hard Drive makes no difference, there is no size limit!
Western Digital Wd Tv Hd 1080p Media Player, has made accessing digital files on an alternate media, easier than ever before.There is any way one convert I would Definately make to this media player, is its long winded name, I mean Sheesh talk about being exact why not simply call it the "ultradocious" & give me a 5% kick-back! Now that's innovation!
These days, everyone wants to be able to watch all their media easily. And of course, why not, with media advent from so many places... Digital cameras, video cameras, cell phones and naturally, the Internet. You also don't want to have to physically swap your Dvds or Blu-Rays discs because that'd be, well, un-North American! 750-something doughnuts a year, we Canadians eat. It's gotta take a toll somewhere.
But in all seriousness, playing all the distinct media you might have is never an easy task. Let's look at the options some of us might have.
Hd Media Player
Xbox 360 - Somewhat capable, but suffers from codec incompatibility, no built-in WiFi, loudness and other issues. Amazingly, the 360 is reported to be able to read Hfs+ (Mac) partitions which I like for a estimate of reasons, while the Ps3, a non-Apple competitor company's product, cannot read Hfs+ or Ntfs. Even more extraordinary still, the 360 can't read Ntfs. I'd love to know what happened behind the scenes... Was there a disgruntled employee(s) who said,"let's stick to the Ms man baby! Hfs but no Ntfs!! Haha! There!" The menu, sorry, Dashboard works pretty well for a console, but not so much in my opinion as a media center. Finally, the 360 just uses too much darn power.
Sony Playstation 3 - thought about to be a good media player by many, it doesn't meet with the same sort of fanfare in my house. It can't deal with Mkvs, even though the files within that box are ordinarily Ok for the Ps3, it can't take files larger than 4Gb, it can't stream these sorts of videos from a Pc (and even if it could, its 802.11g speeds would hold it back). Also can get loud/hot like the 360, and it takes a lot of power. Aside from that, the Ps3 having a Blu-Ray player is its salvage grace. That, its Blu-Ray boot up speed and the fact that it can decode the lossless formats internally make it a decent player. I even like the Xmb to a point where I don't mind using it for organizing pictures and music, but since it can't deal with my Mkv video collection, it too, unfortunately, has to receive a thumbs down.
Wii - Hah. I'll discuss the 1080p media center capabilities of my customary Game Boy next.
Popcorn Hour - This was one of the first permissible media center thingys that had all the important features on paper. Hard drive, included, along with WiFi, Rss Bit Torrenting skills and the potential to play back Mkvs and high-bitrate 1080p video. Only question is, it didn't do it well. First hand reports abound of the player stuttering, freezing, and generally sucking at playing back 1080p video.
Various other networked media streamers - These all work decently well for pictures, music and even Sd video, but then again, so do the 360 and Ps3 with Tversity. Nay, the real test is full-bandwidth 1080p video, and I'm afraid both the players and their skimpy wireless connections are not up to the job.
Htpc - This would be the only real clarification for a long time. I even have posts detailing what they do and how to put them together. Why do these work? Because they're just computers associated to Tvs. Dual-core Cpus, lots of Ram and fancy videos ought to make short work of whatever you can throw at them, at least in theory. Having owned Htpcs since I was able to associate an S-video cable to my Radeon 9700 Pro back in the day, I can tell you that the experience is not as smooth as it should be. Why? Because we're using Windows! Xp Media center Edition was just Xp, and Vista has Media center built in, so that Media center is just an application that runs on top. Bsods, freezes, slowdowns and other issues will still happen, especially if you use the box for other purposes, such as downloading in the background. That, and the incredibly complicated setup policy was seriously annoying. You have to of policy setup Vista, but then the codecs, and making sure that things are being upconverted and handled properly, sound is being production through the coax or toslink or Hdmi the way it should, and then ultimately calibrating the video production was a chore and then some. Most of these problems go away when using Plex with a Mac as your Htpc. It's one of the best media center frontends I've seen, and it's incredibly effective with its processing, playing video back smoothly that won't in Vlc or Quicktime with Perian. Still, it's quite an venture (well, it's certainly a depreciating asset, but let's not split hairs) to buy a whole Pc, and that too a Mac. Your only aesthetically-acceptable option would be a Mac Mini, and their price-performance relationship is unheard of (in a bad way).
Wd Tv Hd Media Player - Finally, that brings us to the object this spin is about, the Western Digital Tv Hd Media Player. No one was expecting this thing, at all, at this price, and certainly not from Wd. But none of that is important.
We've been led to believe that good things come in small packages, and it seems that this tiny expedient may be a proponent of that idea. It's unbelievably small, at least to my eyes, which are used to finding appropriate 1080p playback from big boxes that include heavy coolers atop multi-core Cpus breathing hot air, sucking electricity down and adding to the racket and sweltering heat produced by the other components inside that (usually) ugly box. This thing has no fans, is pretty green and gasp... certainly does what its supposed to! Setup could not be easier, and I think no Av expedient in history has been easier to set up, physically. The power cable, the Hdmi cable... And you're done. Yes, this is also the case with many other Hdmi devices, but this thing is tiny, and it only has a few jacks, so it's very hard to mess it up. No corporeal buttons are on the unit, so it's switched on by the remote. A more-white-than-blue Led lights up for power, and if you have a Usb expedient plugged in, it'll flash or light up, depending on whether it's scanning the drive or is ready to go. I encountered a question early on. After setting up the easy cabling and getting into the menu, I found that it would not recognize my external 1 Tb hard drive. Alarmed, I immediately copied a 720p Tv show to my Patriot Xporter flash drive and plugged it in. After a few seconds of inactivity, it started flashing and the videos came up. Still, if it wouldn't read 1 Tb hard drives, it's not certainly an effective 1080p media center now, is it? I updated the firmware, and then it ultimately saw the drive. I noticed speed improvements as well! Hopefully this thing will get good and good with each firmware update.
This baby will play just about whatever digital you can find. From old-school DivX encodings to the newest super-high bitrate 1080p Mkvs, this will deal with them all. More surprisingly, it seems to have no trouble playing them. They are no signs of a struggle! I put on a specially ripped version of the Godfather, barely compressed from the original, taking up about 20 Gb. It started playing right away, faster than my gaming computer could start playing it(and that has a 4 Ghz Yorkfield and 8Gb of Ram). Vlc and other players sometimes have a lot of optic imperfections playing back high-resolution high-bitrate video, but there was no such macroblocking, other than any gift from compression. If you haven't compressed your Blu-Ray rips much, or, you've just copied the stream file from a Blu-Ray disc (which it Will play!), the video will look superb. Sound is as good as appropriate Dolby Digital or Dts gets (if you're associated through composite, it won't decode Dts though), but currently, it doesn't do Dts-Ma or TrueHd as far as I know.
The interface is a diminutive like a simplified, vertical-scrolling Windows Xp-coloured Sony Ps3 Xmb interface. Sounds a bit like Windows Media Center, right? It's not unlike it actually. Though the menus are a diminutive simplistic, they get the job done and I can't complain much. The only issue I have with the interface is that each icon should have the corresponding text near it, not down in the bottom-right corner. A small niggle, really. The expedient has the potential to create libraries for you, but I disabled this highlight as I have my own organizational buildings on the drive, and also, it seemingly takes forever to index a 1 Tb drive. One more caveat here is that it can't do this for Hfs+ formatted drives, and I think it's because it can read them, but not write to them.
After using the expedient for a few hours, I can say that I'm very satisfied with it. It switches in the middle of videos easily, resumes videos where you left them off, and never falters during playback, no matter how demanding the video file is. At this point, I have just one niggle... The remote is too small for adult male hands, and the buttons require a lot of attempt to push. Sounds like a small issue, which can certainly be resolved by using other kinds of remotes (programmable, Harmony etc.). At 9 Canadian, this is a great deal since it can do what Htpcs can't do as reliably or as quick, for hundreds less. It also trumps every other media clarification on the market, together with the consoles.
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