Best Reviews Western Digital TV Live HD Media PlayerWith so many available these days, it is great to have a name you can trust. The Western Digital TV Live HD Media Player is certainly that and will be a superb purchase. For this reduced price, the Western Digital TV Live HD Media Player comes widely recommended and is a regular choice with lots of people.
Product Description
WD TV Live - Play a world of HD media on your TV
HD video, photos and music - they're on your computer, on your USB drives, on the Internet, but how do you enjoy them on your TV? Now it's easy - play a world of full-HD, 1080p media on your big screen TV with the WD TV Live network-ready HD media player.
Full-HD 1080p video playback and navigation
This is the real thing; full-HD 1080p playback. Sit back and enjoy the spectacular picture quality of brilliant high definition video and the crystal-clear sound of digital audio. Use the included remote control to make your entertainment choices using our crisp, animated navigation menus. WD TV Live also supports a wide variety of the most popular file formats, meaning there's no need to spend time transcoding. Supported file formats include 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 and WMV9 for video, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP and PNG for images, MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, AIF/AIFF, OGG and Dolby Digital DTS for audio, SRT, ASS, SSA, SUB and SMI subtitle formats as well as PLS, M3U and WPL playlist formats.
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Play videos, music and photos from the Internet on your big screen TV
Explore and watch YouTube videos and Flickr pictures on the big screen, rock out to thousands of radio stations via Live365 and discover new music with Pandora radio. WD TV Live supports a list of popular online services that delivers Internet content onto your HD TV, including YouTube to broadcast yourself on the World's #1 video sharing website, and Pandora – free, personalised Internet radio playing only the music you love. Enter your favourite songs or artists and enjoy stations created just for you. Rate songs as they play, because Pandora caters to your tastes and adapts stations to your feedback on the spot. There's also Flickr to share your photos and Live365, which lets you listen to thousands of commercial-free Internet radio stations. Live365 has broadcasts from Radio Disney, Santana, David Byrne, Pat Metheny, and Paul Oakenfold, as well as stations created by music lovers just like you.
Access files anywhere on your home network
Play movies, music, and photos from any PC or drive on your home network. The Ethernet port connects this player to your home network through a wired connection or via popular, supported WiFi adapters (sold separately), and is ideal for use with WD's My Book World. You can play content from most popular USB drives, digital cameras, camcorders, and portable media players that can be recognised as mass storage devices, and compatibility is optimised for My Passport portable hard drives. There's no limit to the size of your media collection; just add more USB drives for more space. Plus, with two USB ports on the player you can connect multiple USB storage devices and access them simultaneously. Our media library feature even collects the content on all the drives into one list sorted by media type.
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Get connected with a simple, intuitive user interface
Using the included remote control you can navigate smoothly through your entertainment choices using the DVD-like navigation, which also supports video chapters, track modes and subtitles. There's a HDMI port that lets you connect to the highest quality HD TV or home theatre, plus additional composite (RCA), and component outputs to ensure compatibility with virtually all television sets. The optical audio output sends digital signals to your AV receiver for the best surround sound experience, and there's also support for wireless network connection with optional USB wireless adapter.
Advanced navigation
Advanced navigation in the form of thumbnail, list and video previews also helps you to browse your content by file name or by thumbnails of photos, album covers and movie cover art. You can even preview videos while you browse your content. The Media Library function enables you to view all your media by media type in one menu regardless of its location in folders, or simply use the search function to search for your media by filename.
Photo viewing and music playback
The WD TV Live Media Player lets you view your photos in a number of ways. You can create custom slide shows with a variety of transitions and background music, or you can view group all media by type within one menu, regardless of its location in folders. The photo viewer supports zoom and pan functionality, with music playback including the usual fast forward, rewind, pause, shuffle and repeat controls.