Western Digital TV HD Live

Zitat: Pro: + Easy to use + attractive user interface + good file support + wide range of services Contra: - Lacks mainstream movie content - confuses some file types - lacklustre sound

Zitat: Pro: + Good looking + easy to use GUI + Built-in Wi-Fi + Good variety of internet services + Great video playback support + Audio lip sync adjustment Contra: - Rubbery remote control buttons - Does not play RMVB files - No memory card reader The inclusion of so many web-based services makes the WD TV Live an interesting proposition for those sitting on the Smart TV fence. And let´s not forget that it is at its core, a media player designed to play your music, videos, and photos, which it does pretty darn well too. So if you´re living in the U.S., and have access to all the on-demand services that the WD TV Live supports, buying the media player is a no-brainer. In Singapore however, the incentive is somewhat diminished as not all services are available here. It also doesn´t have a web browser, which makes the Smart TV experience incomplete; though some may argue it isn´t really needed since there are already a whole host of services to get content from. But to give credit when it´s due, we feel that its Facebook app is the best we have come across in any media player. If you´re curious and want to find out more, you can go the WD TV Live product page , click on Online Services, and select your region or country to see what services are applicable for your locality. All in all, the WD TV Live is a compact media player that takes up very little space among your A/V setup. Yes, you can´t fit a hard drive in it, but if that´s important to you, then you owe yourself to check out the WD TV Live Hub . Take note though, the latter doesn´t have built-in Wi-Fi support. In practice, setting up the WD TV Live is simple; the Mochi GUI isn´t only attractive but also easy to use. And perhaps most importantly, the player handled all the files we threw at it with aplomb. All things considered, at a price of S$189, the WD TV Live represents good value for the money. Strong format support, integrated Wi-Fi, a more than decent remote, support for Dolby TrueHD, 1080p/24 playback, the WD TV Live of 2011 has ticked most of our check boxes. Sure, an additional USB port, faster USB speeds and support for 3D would be great, but so far, we don´t really miss them. If the player´s inability to play RMVB files is a deal-breaker for you, a good alternative is the ASUS O!Play Mini Plus .

Zitat: Pro: + Slick 1080p and DTS playback + good range of net services on the whole. Contra: - No localised video services such as iPlayer - interface is occasionally a tad clumsy. For the £100 asking price, you´re getting a pretty impressive media box with can stream 1080p video and 5.1 DTS sound from your USB storage, home network or online. A good range of integrated internet services is provided, including YouTube, Facebook and Spotify - although it´s a shame that iPlayer is missing for UK users. File support is commendably broad - we only found a few bits of media that wouldn´t display - and the reworked interface is generally smartly implemented, if a bit clunky inside some apps. On the downside, the virtual keyboard is sluggish to use.

Zitat: + Spielt alle gängigen Formate ab + Zugriff auf Flickr, YouTube und weitere + Sehr kompakt + Kein Lüfter, lautlos - Kein eSATA-Anschluss - Kein Speicherkartenleser - Keine Lautstärkeregelung - Übersetzungsfehler

Zitat: Pro: + Can play nearly every music and video file known to man + relatively inexpensive. Contra: - No onboard WiFi. Two main things bother us about the WD TV Live, storage space and playing HD video. It´s curious why a hard drive manufacture wouldn´t include a hard drive in a media playback device, but not even one of them can be found in the series of media devices by Western Digital. Seagate has at least catered for its own external portable series to be slotted inside its version of the WD TV range. Although it doesn´t fully resolve the situation at least it makes some headway, where Western Digital appears to have forgotten that it makes hard drives. This model defines itself from the rest of the WD TV linage by offering up Internet connectivity for playback of HD content, only it cannot play the most popular high definition Internet content, HD Youtube videos. Other that those foibles, it´s a good cheap media player that can handle well nearly all the codecs found in leeched content, along with excelling for some high-definition media playback.