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Western Digital’s been making media adaptors for a little while now and this is one of its most accomplished yet. It shares its curvy case design with its sibling MyBook hard drive and comes with a good range of connection options, including an HDMI o...
Great user interface and simple remote; wide range of audio and video codecs supported including AAC and H.264...
Limited internet media options; no built-in storage; no iTunes DRM support...
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v3.co.uk Updated:
2011-10-04 15:15:08
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Western Digital’s excellent WD TV media jukebox media player was really lacking only one thing: network access.The new WD TV Live allows users to stream media files across a network and view online video at sites such as Youtube, though sadly there is...
Compact, tidy design; easy to set up and use; good format support and streaming performance; excellent value...
No built-in wireless; Youtube streaming is awkward...
Despite some minor problems the WD TV Live was a joy to use and excellent value Good points Compact, tidy design; easy to set up and use; good format support and streaming performance; excellent value Bad points No built-in wireless; Youtube streaming...
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computeractive.co.uk Updated:
2011-10-04 15:15:08
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Western Digital’s excellent WD TV media jukebox media player was really lacking only one thing: network access.The new WD TV Live allows users to stream media files across a network and view online video at sites such as Youtube, though sadly there is...
Compact, tidy design; easy to set up and use; good format support and streaming performance; excellent value...
No builtin wireless; Youtube streaming is awkward...
Despite some minor problems the WD TV Live was a joy to use and excellent value...
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itreviews.com Updated:
2011-10-04 15:15:13
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The WDTV Live is compact, powerful and extremely easy to use, offering excellent playback support for a wide range of digital media. It's not perfect, but the low price goes a long way towards compensating for its faults, and in this light it would be...
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Western Digital had been rather quiet on the media streaming/jukebox market until it turned up with the barnstorming WD TV late last year; a device that offered the support, usability and performance the market was screaming for and only lacked the ab...
Easy to configure and use, excellent interface, good performance and format support, great value for money...
No built-in wireless, access to additional online content could be better...
It's a shame the WD TV Live doesn't quite tick all the boxes, but for the money you're still getting a very impressive streamer and jukebox Key specsComponent, Composite, Ethernet, HDMI, Optical, USB...
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Product Code: WDBAAP0000NBK-EESN The Western Digital WD TV Live is a tiny and inexpensive high-definition media player that can access a wide variety of video, audio and photo files from both local and networked storage devices. It is extremely easy...
Western Digital's WD TV range has always offered extensive format support and the WD TV Live media player doesn't disappoint. This tiny box can play most popular audio, video and photo formats, with Real Video and DRM-protected content being the o...
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The WD TV Live is a full 1080p HD compatible media hub, which adds to the existing WD TV device with a 10/100 Ethernet port and the ability to decode DTS audio.Read TechRadar's Western Digital WD TV reviewDesigned to connect directly to your TV, the WD...
Good media support, Fast interface, 1080p playback...
Only has ethernet port...
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Western Digital's original WDTV was one of our favourite products of last year. Never before had we seen such an easy to use media player that could play so many formats and that cost so little. Of course, time waits for no man or company, though, and tod...
Networkenabled, Excellent connectivity, Improved functionality...
No inbuilt wireless, Lacks RMVB support...
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Western Digital’s WD TV wasn’t your average media player. With little more than an HDMI port at its rear, no internal storage and no networking capabilities, simplicity was its watchword; plug in any USB mass storage device, be it a hard disk, thumb dr...
It may be compact, but it runs like a dream and crams in far more than its sub-£100 would suggest...
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digitalversus.com Updated:
2011-10-04 15:15:20
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Network compatability and web services You’ll have seen in the main body of the text, the differences with the WD TV HD are slight. In fact, the addition of the suffix “Live” to the name is an indication of this, the main difference being the addition...
Extensive multimedia compatibility, Good navigation interface, Simple to use, Network socket and WiFi compatible (optional), DTS and Dolby Digital support...
Album and film cover graphics not generated automatically, No support for synopses, Software limitations for some subtitling and DVD backup, Remote looks too chunky, High standby energy consumption...
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We liked the first version of Western Digital's WD TV box. It was released in December 2008, barely nine months ago, but WD has already rolled out its successor. Western Digital's WD TV Live: now with networking on board... There's no substantial chang...
The WD TV grows up. The original was a great way of hooking up a hard drive full of content to your telly, but the Live makes it a fully fledged network media player, allowing you to hide the HDD right out of the way. It's not perfect - the UI is sti...
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Verdict: Adding streaming to this already excellent media player makes it better than ever. If you don't need wireless, buy this. We reviewed Western Digital's first media player, the WD TV, almost a year ago. It stood the test of time well, appeari...
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If you're looking for the lot at a great price, the WD TV Live could be the one.It offers a responsive interface very similar to the PlayStation 3's XMB menu system. It's compatible with Samba, NFS and Bonjour network shares, along with UPnP servers su...
Lots of features at the right price, but a cumbersome interface...
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Western Digital's WD TV Live is a tiny and inexpensive high-definition media player that can access a wide variety of video, audio and photo files from both local and networked storage devices. It is extremely easy to use but lacks wireless connectivity, so it may not suit all home theatre setups.The WD TV Live media streamer is slightly larger than the WD TV it supersedes but, as it lacks internal storage, it is still one of the smallest network-capable media streamers available. It has two...
Inexpensive, extensive format support, easy to use...
No integrated Wi-Fi, limited photo viewing options, no Gigabit Ethernet...
The latest version of Western Digital’s WD TV media player is better than ever. It boasts an Ethernet port and has ability to view YouTube videos and photos on Flickr. The WD TV Live’s extensive format support will let you access almost any mo...
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channelnews.com.au Updated:
2011-11-06 07:30:31
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This tiny little box is easily the best multimedia player on the market. Like the previous WDTV, it excels at bringing pretty much any media file you can think of from a USB device to your TV. If you can download it off the Internet, you can most likel...
Wide range of supported file formats, Networking features, Optical Audio, YouTube, Flickr, Excellent fast menus, Easy to use and set up, Low price...
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smarthouse.com.au Updated:
2011-11-06 07:30:31
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This tiny little box is easily the best multimedia player on the market. Like the previous WDTV, it excels at bringing pretty much any media file you can think of from a USB device to your TV. If you can download it off the Internet, you can most like...
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Are you after a live streaming media player? Then look no further than Western's Digital WD TV Live Streaming. Besides offering a good performance, this product is also very small. Our article will tell you more about it in a jiffy...
The Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player is definitely not perfect. However, from a quality, design, specs and performance points of view, it succeeds in earning more than a few congratulatory appreciations from us...
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This is a review on WD TV Live, a portable and easy-to-use HD media player from Western Digital.Most of us here would have plenty of movies, photos, and music collection in our hard drives (Gigabytes if not Terabytes of them). Unfortunately not everyon...
WD TV Live is a great compact media player capable of delivering HD quality videos to your living room. It supports a large variety of formats for delivering videos, photos, and music to your home. WD TV Live, unlike most media players in the market...
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Today we present you with a video review of the Western Digital WD TV Live HD media player. It is the third media player to be released by the American hard drive company in the past year and from all accounts and our testing; they’ve hit the nail...
Today we present you with a video review of the Western Digital WD TV Live HD media player. It is the third media player to be released by the American hard drive company in the past year and from all accounts and our testing; they’ve hit the nail...
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Cheers and applause for a box so small that gets most of the big things right. It keeps connections simple — necessarily given it's only 12cm wide — so there's Ethernet in and HDMI out, with both composite AV and component video available from minijack so...
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tbreak.ae Updated:
2016-11-27 03:52:33
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With an explosion in the sales of external USB hard drives, its no surprise to see people storing media such as photos, music and videos on such drives. They offer a reasonable capacity to price ratio. However, to view these files, you generally need...
WD Live TV delivers what it promises to in a fool-proof way. We do wish it was slightly cheaper. With an explosion in the sales of external USB hard drives, its no surprise to see people storing media such as photos, music and videos on such drives. T...
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Hometheatersound.com Updated:
2011-10-04 15:14:45
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A few years ago, two of the most intriguing products reviewed by the SoundStage! Network were the Logitech (formerly Slim Devices) Squeezebox network music player and its big brother, the Transporter. By making it easy to stream digital audio files fr...
At a street price of just over $100, Western Digital’s WD TV Live offers plenty of versatility in the number of audio and video file formats it can play, in addition to its network streaming capabilities. It does have some limitations when playing aud...
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Western Digital's WD TV Live is a tiny and inexpensive high-definition media player that can access a wide variety of video, audio and photo files from both local and networked storage devices. It is extremely easy to use but lacks wireless connectivit...
Extensive format support, Easy to use...
Limited photo viewing options, No integrated WiFi...
The Western Digital WD TV Live is a media player and a high-definition media streamer rolled into one. It boasts an Ethernet port and has ability to view YouTube videos and photos on Flickr. The WD TV Live's extensive format support lets you access al...
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In the current age of media consumption, movies and television are being utilized in vastly different methods than five years ago. Nothing is more of a testament to the changes in how consumers are viewing their media than Western Digital’s TV Live H...
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When I reviewed the WD TV last month, I found it was a very capable little box that could play most of the videos, music and photos that I threw at it. But one key limitation of the WD TV is its stand-alone design. The WD TV has no network features a...
Attractive UI, Extensive video formats supported, 1080p support, Silent...
Can't attach USB hub, Flickr Issues, Internet content playable is a bit thin...
Inexpensive and surprisingly flexible media player...
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maximumpc.com Updated:
2011-10-04 15:14:57
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One media streamer to play them all High-definition video files were meant to be seen on big-screen televisions, not your 19-inch PC monitor. But getting these files—either personally ripped from high-def sources or downloaded from the Internet—from yo...
File playback over a network; component video output; improved file compatibility over the first WD TV.
No DRMencrypted file support; timeconsuming directory navigation; not ideal for music playback.
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This is a review on WD TV Live, a portable and easy-to-use HD media player from Western Digital.Most of us here would have plenty of movies, photos, and music collection in our hard drives (Gigabytes if not Terabytes of them). Unfortunately not everyon...
WD TV Live is a great compact media player capable of delivering HD quality videos to your living room. It supports a large variety of formats for delivering videos, photos, and music to your home. WD TV Live, unlike most media players in the market...
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With an explosion in the sales of external USB hard drives, its no surprise to see people storing media such as photos, music and videos on such drives. They offer a reasonable capacity to price ratio. However, to view these files, you generally need...
WD Live TV delivers what it promises to in a fool-proof way. We do wish it was slightly cheaper. With an explosion in the sales of external USB hard drives, its no surprise to see people storing media such as photos, music and videos on such drives. T...
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The new WD TV Live HD Media Player is an update to one of our favourite media players, the WD TV HD Media Player. Long names aside and putting it in simpler terms, Western Digital took their successful (and capable) HD and upscaling media player...
Plays almost everything, Flawless HD upscaling...
Proprietary video cables, No RMVB support...
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insidehw.com Updated:
2011-10-04 15:15:02
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WD TV Live brings probably the most important fix comparing to WD TV - support for wired network connection. The packaging of both devices is identical, with the exception of component and composite cables that are here non-standard because of unified...
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Hardware storage company Western Digital seems to be shifting its focus from just making casual and professional HDD drives for various respects as it is now getting into the entertainment segment. It already has two products, both of which we have rev...
Small and compact, HDMI output, 1080p Full HD, network storage media/device, format support, slick interface...
Sluggish (Network or broken files issue), no RMVB support, no hardware buttons, price...
Hardware storage company Western Digital seems to be shifting its focus from just making casual and professional HDD drives for various respects as it is now getting into the entertainment segment. It already has two products, both of which we have rev...
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These new devices help you bring tunes and video files to your TV from your PCs and drives around your house. Which one is best? The year is almost at an end. While the year was chock full of praise-worthy trends in technology and consumer electronics...
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Technology really moves at a breakneck pace. It was only a few months ago that we took a look at the original Western Digital WD TV HD Media Player and now the company that usually specializes in hard drives has already released that product’s succes...
The Western Digital WD TV Live has made substantial improvements over the version that was released earlier this year. The file support is a lot better, easily handling just about any video file that I threw at it. The video quality is just as good as...
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People are now creating and compiling more and more home multimedia than ever before. These files are typically stored on your personal computer’s hard drive or some external storage device waiting for you to call it up to view it or play. Too many t...
Plays HD content and content from the internet flawlessly. Affordable.
No RMVB playback.
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Earlier this year I reviewed the WD TV HD Media Player. At the time I appreciated the fact that it could handle just about any video format I threw at it, but wished that it would also connect to my home network and other services. In addition, the int...
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maclife.com Updated:
2011-10-04 15:15:11
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After months of unconfirmed rumors about its maybe, possibly imminent arrival, Western Digital finally released its next-generation WD TV media player--just mere days after we finished our Dec/09 issue, in which we named the previous-gen model as one o...
Plays back media in tons of common formats. Use your existing network to move media to and from the device. 1080p output. Access to online streaming content.
Navigation can be inconsistent. Onscreen keyboard is confusing and cumbersome. Media library doesn't consolidate all media.
Network capability adds a tremendous amount of flexibility to WD TV Live. Easy transfers to and from the device meake it perfect for media freaks who want to take a break from staring at their Macs for a while.WD TV Live...
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Western Digital has upgraded its core entertainment product, adding network capabilities to its compact high-def media player...
Incredibly Easy Setup, Compact enough to fit into any A/V rig, Up to 1080p output, Excellent sound quality, Copy, move or delete files from the couch...
No WiFi out of the box, No HDMI cable included, A lot of missed opportunity with services, No search features for audio/video services...
Chances are, one of your many devices already streams YouTube, photos, music or other media from your network or from the internet at large. If not, the WD TV live could be a fun little gadget. However, for $149, we'd like to see it add Netflix or oth...
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Media PCs and their place in our living rooms are a controversial topic here in the office. While they can offer enormous flexibility through the use of a conventional operating system, for many they’re expensive, noisy and needlessly complex, esp...
Size Isn't EverythingThe unit itself is incredibly small for a device so capable - it measures 125.5 x 100 x 40mm (W x D x H) - so you should have no problem finding space for it alongside your TV. Connectivity options are excellent and cater to any s...
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Western Digital’s original WD TV digital media player was notable for the its HDMI output, strong support for just about every popular digital media format, and the fact that WD didn’t force you to pair the product with one of their own portable hard d...
Network support, support for every important media file and container format, HDMI output, small and quiet...
Can’t stream Netflix movies, wireless networking costs extra, currently supports only a limited number of online media services...
The WD TV Live sounds great, looks great, and is an absolute breeze to set up and use...
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It is extremely easy to use, but the WD TV Live lacks wireless connectivity, so it may not suit all home theatre setups.The WD TV Live media streamer is slightly larger than the WD TV it supersedes but, as it lacks internal storage, it is still one of...
Western Digital's WD TV range has always offered extensive format support and the WD TV Live media player doesn't disappoint. This tiny box can play most popular audio, video and photo formats, with Real Video and DRM-protected content being the only...
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Media Players seem to be the next best thing these days. Soon our entire rack of DVDs will be obsolete, what with one terabyte drives carrying all our films and music. With products such as Western Digital’s HDD based media players, one can connect the...
Very good Feature list, Reasonable, Above average performance...
Small iffys in VC1 playback...
Complete List of File format SupportVideo: 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 Image: JPEG, GIF, TIF/TIFF, BMP, PNG Audio: MP3, WAV/PCM...
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The WD TV Live is a definite improvement over its older sibling (the non-Live). If you are looking for an HD media solution that will play pretty much every type of media known to man (see the list above), has a very small physical footprint, network...
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dvice.com Updated:
2011-10-04 15:15:19
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There've been a number of reports about the new Western Digital WD TV Live media server going on sale this week, but I think most of these reports missed the point. I got a chance to play with one, and I think I get it now.The $150 WD TV Live is the la...
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hardwaregeeks.com Updated:
2011-10-04 15:15:20
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Today WD launched the brand new WD TV Live, an upgrade to the WD TV which was released last year on November 3rd. WD sent me the WD TV Live two weeks ago and I have been playing with it non stop. The WD TV was a cool device that allows you to connect a...
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homecinemachoice.com Updated:
2011-10-04 15:15:21
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Western Digital's WDTV set the standard for easy-to-use media servers – now WDTV Live is adding network capability and more to what was already a highly-regarded product. Western Digital's original WDTV was basically a dock which connected to yo...
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Western Digital's WD TV line of streaming media players includes two current models: the basic WD TV Live and the step-up WD TV Live Hub. Both models allow you to stream content from most of the popular Web-based providers, such as Netflix, Hulu Plus, Vud...
Rocksolid performance, best user experience in the business, and Bluray quality downloads...
You need the disc vault to store your Blurays, the system is expensive, and the Kscape doesn't support HD music files (yet)...
The WD TV Live sells for about $100, pitting it directly against the Apple TV and top-of-the-line Roku 2 XS. The WD TV Live has more functionality than either of those boxes, in its combination of Web services and outstanding file support. Its features co...
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