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Western Digital have announced the latest model in their WD TV range. The WD TV Live is a small footprint, high definition digital media receiver which outputs video to 1080p via HDMI.
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As usual with these latest swathe of DMRs, WD TV Live plays a wide range of music, video and photo formats from across your home network, as well as online content from the likes of YouTube, Flickr Pandora and Live365. Content can also be played directly from USB attached cameras, hard drives and other devices.
Supported formats as follows:
Video – 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 – JPEG, GIF, TIF/TIFF, BMP, PNG
Audio – MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, AIF/AIFF, OGG, Dolby Digital, DTS
Playlist – PLS, M3U, WPL
Subtitle – SRT, ASS, SSA, SUB, SMI
The WD TV Live is shipping now at $149.99/£99.99
More Info: WD TV Live | Amazon (US)
19. October 2009 at 10:28 am
Great product! I was considering buying this little player but I've picked the Eminent EM7075 instead.
19. October 2009 at 11:18 am
Im waiting on reviews, but this could actually be the media device im looking for.
19. October 2009 at 12:08 pm
Looks to have a lot more quality in it than the Xtreamer. The Xtreamer interface looks very tacky (likely the red colour).
19. October 2009 at 12:14 pm
Got mine this weekend and it is awesome. Much better than my old D-Link DSM-320 which I eBay'ed last year. Running TVersity on my EX475 as well
19. October 2009 at 5:56 pm
Some problems –
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1...
21. October 2009 at 3:10 am
yeah allot of problems, I got mine for $120 instead of $150 so don't know if I should return it or wait for the firmware that WD will release in 6 months like they did with there older version
19. October 2009 at 11:10 pm
How do these devices work with WHS
13. December 2009 at 12:20 am
my experience, can connect to WHS as media server but not as network share, to me this is key as with media server connection it cannot see MKV files only if connected as Network Share. Since the latest firmware 012, no network share connection found. without the ability to play MKV it is no better than the D Link DSM 520 it replaced. If the $119 purchase price is no problem then go for it, I would but a second unit if this is resolved but not befire then
20. October 2009 at 12:46 am
I have had mine for a week and so far so good. Enable the guest login on your WHS and your shares will be readily available. No need to use a media streaming program.
21. October 2009 at 2:43 am
how do you do that?
13. January 2010 at 1:19 am
Can you share how you created your account to work on the WHS? I keep on getting booted off the network when trying to connect to shared drives on the media share for my server.
20. October 2009 at 9:13 pm
I have one and it is really good… the only problem for me is the lack of wmapro audio on my HD wmv rips
21. October 2009 at 4:00 pm
This box rocks. Finally plays all my MKV's flawlessly from my WHS server. I've given it it's own account: User: WD-TV-Live! It smokes my iBOX Z400W which cost 3x (ok has WiFi n).
28. January 2010 at 1:46 am
When I try to create such user "WD-TV-Live!" I am told that it cannot contain "!". Did you use ! or not?
28. January 2010 at 1:47 am
And if you did create User: WD-TV-Live, then how do you set the password on the WD?
7. November 2009 at 3:39 pm
I purchased a WD TV Live, use PlayOn for streaming hundreds of shows and movies and have cancelled my cable (ATT Uverse actually).
This is a great unit. If they add plug-in support it would be better but works great when used with PlayOn or Tversity.
14. January 2010 at 10:41 am
I own a WD TV Live and that little box is amazing for what it costs (I paid more for AnyDVD HD which is also great but bought it after I got this little guy).
I'm now looking to run Tversity on WHS for use with the WD TV Live… Anyone able to share any how-to's or links with experience?
21. March 2010 at 1:32 am
I am running Wild Media Server and this little box can play most anything!
By itself, I wasn't impressed with using network shares, but once I used server software to interface between it and my media I was sold.
13. April 2010 at 9:14 am
The Box can easely read Share folders: need to enable Guest Account, and plays almast all video formats in full HD (1080p) with multiple subtitles and audio. Best experince with MKV.
But there are many bugs !
Since last firmware Network connectivity is improved but still may bugs !
So is you are, like me, willing to loose some patience and time on it, is definetely the best media box available.
26. April 2010 at 12:59 pm
Yestarday I tried to watch a bluray movie format with a high bitrate about 50Mbit/s ~6MB/s from shares folders and the video was working in frames … can somebody tell me which is the problem … is from de player it's hardware limited ? shoud i use the option Media Server ? Thank you.
7. May 2010 at 6:23 pm
This works great with my WHS. No problems playing straight DVD rips as vob or mkv