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| 843391 | 2009-12-31 23:41:00 | Choice!! Even supports NTFS formatted drives which is nice. How many USB ports on the WDTV HD? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 843392 | 2010-01-01 01:15:00 | How many USB ports on the WDTV HD? 2 USB Ports :). |
davidmmac (4619) | ||
| 843393 | 2010-01-01 04:46:00 | This is a timely thread! Half an hour ago I was complaining to my wife that our WDTV HD won't do exactly what I want. She seemed very unsympathetic... Originally I wanted to transfer my CD collection to a hard drive and play it through a media player. The Seagate Theatre does that, but its UI is too crude to be useful and it doesn't have HDMI, so I tried the WDTV HD. That's fine for music (with a few minor niggles), but now I want to move on to storing & playing video. I want to be able to dump my DVDs onto the drive and play them from there, but the WDTV HD can't handle the DVD structure. It can play .VOB files, but it can't handle menus or sub-titles. Funnily enough, the Seagate Theatre, for all its faults, can play DVDs correctly. Question: can the WDTV Live or the Seagate Theatre + play DVDs correctly? Is one noticeably better than the other? |
Jayess64 (8703) | ||
| 843394 | 2010-01-03 10:04:00 | Ok, after a few days use I think I've used the WDTV enough to post a basic review, so here goes :): As I said mentioned earlier, the device has a very easy to navigate and use menu, through which the device categorizes your media into 3 libraries: pictures, music, and video. If it doesn't recognize a file it doesn't show it in the libraries it creates when it scans the storage device. Scanning doesn't take long (although I've only used a couple of flash drives so far). As far as outputting is concerned, there are composite and HDMI connections (although there isn't an HDMI cable included). I've only used the composite so far as we don't (yet) have a HDTV. The remote is small but still comfortable in hand. The buttons are reasonably responsive and fairly well layed out. If you lose the remote there is no way to control the device unless you have a universal remote (apparently the Logitech Harmony works) or alternatively you can buy a replacement from WD (don't know whether they ship to NZ though). When I played some video, it passed with flying colours all the files I through at it on the first attempt, there was no issues to do with stuttering or breakup which I commonly find when playing 1080i&p files on my PC. I loaded some different files onto a flash drive and this time I had some problems. It wouldn't play .flv's (but upon consulting the box they aren't supported anyway) and HD videos I had downloaded off Youtube with Youtube downloader HD wouldn't play either, but as far as I'm concerned this isn't much of an issue. Other than that, the device works a treat for playing videos :). The only issue I have with video playing is that you can't skip forward say 10 minutes with the skip button, it just takes you to the next track. So if you want to start watching a file halfway through your stuck fast forwarding at x16, which can potentially take a while. Updating firmware was sooooo easy. The file was around 12MB and only required loading it onto a flash drive and inserting it into the device. From there the device picks it up and asks you if you would like to update firmware. It took about 5 minutes for the drvice to update itself. Music wise, the device will play DRM free songs from iTunes (much to my surprise) and even loaded album art and song details from the .m4a. Overall, I highly recommend this device if you want something that will play your multimedia files on yours (or a friends) TV. It plays most files and has a great menu, and the remote isn't half bad either :). I'm very happy with it, all I need now is a HDTV :blush:. |
davidmmac (4619) | ||
| 843395 | 2010-01-03 18:03:00 | Excellent, good to hear :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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