- Weight:190 g
- Depth:10 cm
- Width:12.5 cm
- Localisation:EMEA
- Product Type:Digital multimedia receiver
Product Description
WD TV Live Stream Media Player -
Technical Specifications: interface (type maintain no numbers): 2x USB 2.0, HDMI, SPDIF, RJ45 (LAN), audio output (3.5mm jack, digital optical and helmet) · Playback Formats: Audioformate: MP3, WMA, WAV, PCM, AC3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, AIFF, FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), LPCM, Videoformate: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Xvid, WMV, MOV, AVI, MKV, MOV, VOB, FLV, TS, M2TS, AVC, H.264, VC-1, Bildformate: BMP, JPG, GIF, TIFF, PNG
Description: WD TV Live Streaming Media Player
Customer Reviews: WD TV Live Stream Media Player
-Super user friendly and beautiful menu.
-Convenient remote control.
-Exelent picture quality and sound especially with 1080p DTS movies.
-Digital optical out for Home Cinema
-USB for external HDD and memory sticks
-Play almost all type of music,video and picture archives
-Connect with WLAN
-Internet radio with all local stations (Tunein application)
-YouTube
-Greek subs
-Many more...
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Hi guys, reason this unit has a dodgy plug is that it is a Europe,Middle East and Africa model, you can tell because the model number ends -EESN
If it was a UK model number should be WDBGXT0000NBK-UESN these are available (just bought one to replace my old WDHD Gen 1) on Amazon and are nearly £15 cheaper then these Jokers are charging...
Un-boxed it this morning, plugged it in and away it went; it detected my network immediately and asked if I wanted to upgrade the firmware from 1.4 to 1.7, I pressed OK. I then went into the settings, first off the Time zone, very simple to do. The internet settings were next, I had to put in the work-group code, again very simple. I then choose how to display the folders, tried out iPlayer and one of the American TV channels, next a YouTube video all went well. I have two Western Digital external hard drives connected too it and they were recognised and all the films are now having images attached to them, I set that on auto. It plays anything I have tried on it, so I am pleased and the menu is much better now, clear and easy to navigate. The remote control is much larger and less intuitive to use than the older one, but I'm sure it will soon become second nature to use and it is well made.
I have been transferring some films from my PC which is at the opposite side of my house, the WiFi works well but they take a while to transfer, but it is much better than unplugging the external drives all the time, which is what I used to do with the older model.
So all good, well not really, the quality of the case is nowhere near as good as the previous generation, it is indeed very plasticy and feels fragile. The most annoying thing for me is the stupid front facing USB output, what idiot designed that I wonder; I get the feeling it was either an afterthought or they gave the design to a student doing some work experience :-J The USB cable I have cumming out of it at the front looks ugly and spoils it. It gets very hot, so I tried standing it up on end, like I was able to do with the previous version, but it takes a lot of patience due to the cable coming out the front, but I did eventually get it to stay upright; I don't know yet if it will help with the heat. It doesn't look as good next to the external drives, they look like a pair of books as did the older model, this one doesn't.
So to sum it up, it does what it's designed to do and does it well, but the design is horrible so only four stars from me.
Update:
I've had this for a week now and enjoying it very much, so I have upped my ratings to 5 stars. I hope anyone who has read my review realises that a lot of it was tongue in cheek, I realise that the front USB socket allows memory sticks to be inserted easily.
I have tried my Belkin 7 port USB hub into the WDTV and can confirm that you can then run up to 7 external drives from it and the WDTV finds them without any problems. Another thing I have found is that little remote from the older version of the WDTV works with this model.
So it is a great player which is highly customisable.
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Recent updates have addressed most of the issues mentioned by other reviewers. Network connectivity is seamless amongst the other PCs & Mac on my home network - I can stream and browse media without making any changes to the set up. The interface is an utter dream to use - so simple and intuitive! BBC iPlayer is now available (and displays perfectly on my 50" plasma) via another update. The WD support website is great for any issues and the downloadable manual is well laid out and explains all the settings & options. I have a 1TB Seagate drive attached and it works perfectly. The PSU / plug is the standard moulded UK kind, no adaptor required (if bought from UK supplier, like Amazon, and not 3rd party reseller). All in all, this is one of the best purchases I've made recently, and is highly recommended.
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I have this unit plugged in via a HDMI 1.3 cable in to a 20" Samsung 720p lcd tv.
With a 500gig WD passport drive for storage. Everything is working well so far.
The unit it's self is very small and compact, it does feel a little "plasticky" though.
I don't think it would do well if it was being taken out and about a lot.
Menu is easy to navigate with it's pane layout.
Load times are not super fast but well acceptable.
Play back is very good, no jitter on anything I've watched yet.
Remote control feels nice in the hand and is well laid out.
My only negative opinion on this product is the psu it shipped with.
Worst possible option...A wall wart with a two pin plug that comes with a clip on 2 to 3 pin adapter.
Sticks out a lot from the wall socket. Got around this by swapping it out for a sensible psu.
All in all. It's great.
UPDATE
So a few months on and I have had a few issues with it overheating. This causes the device to stop seeing my media drive.
Turning it upside down to allow the air vents to do their job seems to have fixed it.
I will say that it only overheated when I was watching 1080p files.
All other lower res files seem not to to stress the unit.
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Been thinking about upgrading this as my 1gen WD player was now 5 years old and taking 2 long to read attached drives... Should have done it sooner,
Perfect new icons on screen graphics, Facebook, bbc iplayer etc.
Quieter and cooler, can play files from my pc upstairs in an instant, USB drives load up in seconds with thumbnails from Internet.
And most importantly of all plays anything I chuck at it from mp4, avi, mkv from 1080 full Hd downwards, including 12 gig HD rips
Easy setup, iPhone iPad remote control as well.
Should not have waited so long
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Purchased this after my previous media player went in the bin as was useless, this one is fantastic and a thousand times better, after connecting and sorting out the wi-fi, I then ran through I think two or three automatic firmware updates, the final update seems a lot bigger and got me worried as it sat there for what seemed like ages but eventually finished, and the BBC iPlayer was now available, now we just need players for some other channels here in the UK.
The only real problem I seemed to have was when running through wi-fi.... it could see my computer's and I could download films and stream from the PC, but the reverse way from my computer to the WD TV I could not connect, although it was shown on my network but just would not connect, the idea being (and easier) would be to drag and drop films onto the drive I have connected to the WD TV unit using the computer, the only way I could get this to work was using a network cable and it works perfectly now.
So impressed I will at a later stage buy another one for the TV upstairs and going to invest in a network hardrive (no doubt supplied by Western Digital, also see my review on that) so it will just be the WD TV that is left connected to the TV.
You can also use an app for the iPhone which acts as a remote, well clever but unfortunately for me I cannot get it to work, as have a few other users looking at their reviews in the app store this suddenly started to work ok.
There is also no instruction manual supplied with it, you have to download it from WD's website, another way to save money no doubt... and to print it yourself in colour and over 229 pages would cost a bit of your money!!
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First class product at a good price.
Easy to navigate with well defined graphics.
This is a top tree product
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Amazing bit of kit and ideal for all you people who have movies on external hard drives as this unit plays every single codec you can think of. Best gadget I ever bought
This device arrived on time in perfect condition..
I connected it to my TV via a NEET hdmi switcher and connected a WD passport 1tb external drive to it.
The combination was fantastic, everything worked pretty much out of the box.
Minor problems had been anticipated in the accompanying literature and were fixed as directed.
Unexpected bonus was that the media player detected my wireless network and I was able to connect it easily.
I now can transfer media files wirelessly from network PCs to the WD passport via the media player and play them.
The quality of pictures and sound is great.
I had looked at means of playing my computer music files on my hifi that cost £500 and over, this device solved my problem at a fraction of the price.
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