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| 763521 | 2009-04-09 05:18:00 | Anyone seen or used the WD TV? Featured in March PC World. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 763522 | 2009-04-09 05:28:00 | As in this? ( . wdc . com/en/products/products . asp?DriveID=572" target="_blank">www . wdc . com) As I'm looking at building an HTPC I thought it was awesome until I discovered it has no NIC :waughh: As if you're going to copy a blu-ray etc to a USB memory stick every time you want to watch it . . . . . That's just retarded . :annoyed: |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 763523 | 2009-04-09 05:40:00 | Yeah thats it. Not sure I need it connected to the network, my portable HDD should do the trick. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 763524 | 2009-04-09 07:54:00 | Cool man - post a review if you end up getting one! :thumbs: | nofam (9009) | ||
| 763525 | 2009-04-09 07:59:00 | There are many devices similar to this on trademe. I had one previously and it does everything the WD TV does. |
Blam (54) | ||
| 763526 | 2009-04-09 11:34:00 | I have one of those babies and I'v been quite impressed with it! Wasn't compatible with any of my USB flash drives but got it working with a spare 2.5" laptop drive (housed in an external enclosure). Was glad that I didnt have to buy a Western Digital manufactured external hard drive (as recommended by WD). Picture quality is great and i'm thinking of pairing it with a cheapo 22" LCD monitor hung on the wall as a super-sized digital photo frame. Have found it useful when kids want to watch a dvd in their rooms - they can just copy it from the Media Centre PC and take this tiny little box and a small HDD enclosure away. Supports the playing of ripped DVDs - wouldn't use it as my main digital media adaptor given that it has no ethernet-wi-fi capability but for the price I got it ($250) that's to be expected. Firmware needs some working on as there's the odd quirk on the settings menu -- for example you cant switch to HDMI output until you plug in a composie cable and access the video settings menu. Hope that helps Regards Paul |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 763527 | 2009-04-09 14:41:00 | i dont have one of these boxes you speak of but my setup involves a video/analogue capture card a network and a slave PC attached to a 37" LCD used to play video captures, the slave does have the limitation of windows 98 and any video that is a bit big (~4+ gig) only 3 minutes of it plays but you need to capture about 4 - 8 hours for that to happen but for what i use it for; a slightly overkill VCR with 500 gig "tape" so i use it to store the odd movie as well, in 513kb/ps mpeg (VCDpal setting according to the TV card utility) makes a slightly crude media centre and movies at the click of a mouse | williamF (115) | ||
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