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1186901 2011-04-13 02:18:00 I have the earlier non networked WDTV and I think it's great. I just put anything I want to watch on a USB stick and play it from there. I have been very impressed with the format support, almost everything works. dugimodo (138)
1186902 2011-04-13 02:51:00 Does the play-on or WDTV have some sort of way of showing what vid files have been played.??

ie: on my HTPC, if I have a bunch of say TV programs stored, as they get played they get marked as played (ie bold filename font turned to normal font to show as played)
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1101 (13337)
1186903 2011-04-13 04:37:00 Does the play-on or WDTV have some sort of way of showing what vid files have been played.??

ie: on my HTPC, if I have a bunch of say TV programs stored, as they get played they get marked as played (ie bold filename font turned to normal font to show as played)
Cheers

I've got the original WDTV and it doesn't show you what's been played, but if you select an item you stopped watching half way through it'll ask if you want to resume it. It looses this data though if you turn it off at the wall.

Not sure what the WDTV Live or the Play-on do though sorry.
davidmmac (4619)
1186904 2011-04-13 07:02:00 I have 3 hardware media players:

- WD TV Live HD (best overall)
- Anyware PBR-500
- Mediagate 450 HD

They each have good points and bad points.

The WD TV Live is great for accessing Tune In radio stations (such as RNZ Concert, BBC3, ABC Classic). It does not have a display so you need your TV on to navigate when listening to the radio

The PBR-500 in addition to being a media player that plays USB and network shares has component video capture (!) allowing recording of Sky stuff and its transfer to PC (it has an FTP server). No built-in Wifi

The Mediagate, with built-in WiFi, nowdays is used to access Shoutcast radio stations. It's a good HD media player (internal HDD, network (XP), USB) but it won't connect to Win7

The worst media player by far is the Bravia USB port. (EX700). It won't accept NTFS HDDs. Only FAT32 not extFAT (has 4GB file limit). It's VERY picky on what it will play.

Rather than getting more wireless dongles I'm thinking of getting a "range extender" or wireless client to combine all the players and wirelessly connect to my main wireless router and desktop network (perhaps a Netgear WN2000RPT-100Aus)
BBCmicro (15761)
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