Conclusion.
In the beginning I was genuinely curious if the WDTV would live up to my expectations. To my enjoyment the WDTV turned out to be pretty awesome with lots of great features for a reasonable price (around $100.) My only real desire for this device would be to see it support USB BluRay drives to help take advantage of its HD capabilities. The only other inconvenience I had was the need to provide my own HDMI cable as the video quality dramatically improved with HDMI over the standard component video. In my tests I found that this did everything that was promised and more. While it supports pictures and music it’s not where this product truly shines, its shining accomplishment is the ability to quickly and effectively provide access to large amounts of videos possibly even your entire collection of digital media and to play these files in a clean interface that while relatively Spartan does its job effectively in guiding the user to play the files he or she wants too. Western Digital TV HD Media Player is a device that no home should be without, even if you currently have a media center the small size and ease of use shouldn’t be ignored and instead should be incorporated into any home theater setup.
I give the Western Digital TV HD Media Player the TechwareLabs seal of Awesomeness
1. I have a WD TV USB player. Problem: Some YouTube downloads in FLV format have time lags between video and audio. I therefore use my FLV Downloader’s conversion programme to convert the videos to MP4 – which shows no such time lags
2. Is there a machine which records TV onto USB sticks?
Is there a Hard disk in the Media Player?
I changed the video settings and now I get a “input not supported” message, how do I go back to the main menu to change it back? is there any “reset” settings button?
Thanks
can i hook this up with my ps3 and xbox 360??
Electro,
The player only supports USB based media in the WDTV’s stock firmware. I am aware that there has been a decent following in the community regarding modding the WDTV and supposedly there is firmware that will allow USB based CD drives. I have not heard of support for USB HD media players working.
Does the HD player supports for playing of movies from BlueRay disks?
The WDTV since I reviewed it has replaced my cable bill I download the shows I want to see copy them all over to an external HD and watch them in upscaled 1080p its awesome.