Western Digital has introduced a gadget that'll turn an external hard drive into an HD-capable media player.
WD_TV_01 Western Digital's WD TV HD: sits between your telly and your hard drive
Dubbed WD TV HD pulls content off a USB-connected hard drive such as WD's new My Passport external drive and presents it on an HDMI- …
Given the recent price reduction of the Netgear and the better Beta firmware, i'd go with one of those personally (well i already have one and am waiting for the EVA9000) It'll upscale to 1080p and only really fails with full 1080p HD rips (rare) and occasionally with DTS audio, other than that it's better than any of the other ones i've tried!!!
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Western Digital debuts HD TV add-on
Western Digital has introduced a gadget that'll turn an external hard drive into an HD-capable media player. WD_TV_01 Western Digital's WD TV HD: sits between your telly and your hard drive Dubbed WD TV HD pulls content off a USB-connected hard drive such as WD's new My Passport external drive and presents it on an HDMI- …
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Posted Monday 3rd November 2008 14:26 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Connectivity? #
Does anyone know where you can find a spec sheet for this device? Wanting to know what connections it has, specifically for audio (optical/coax)
Can't find anything on the WD site....certainally are keeping this one quiet!!
Posted Monday 3rd November 2008 16:19 GMT
Anonymous Coward
ISO files? #
Does anyone know if this drive will be able to run ISO images of DVDs stored on a HD?
Posted Tuesday 4th November 2008 08:29 GMT
Anonymous Coward
specs and limitations #
Here are some published specs.... not USB2 is often considered insufficient for "serious" HD playback
http://www.buy.com/prod/wd-tv-hd-media-player-usb-2-0-hdmi-composite-a-v/q/loc/101/209975073.html
Posted Tuesday 4th November 2008 11:43 GMT
Scott Mckenzie
Netgear EVA8000 #
Given the recent price reduction of the Netgear and the better Beta firmware, i'd go with one of those personally (well i already have one and am waiting for the EVA9000) It'll upscale to 1080p and only really fails with full 1080p HD rips (rare) and occasionally with DTS audio, other than that it's better than any of the other ones i've tried!!!
http://theregister.pgpartner.co.uk/search_getprod.php/masterid=35917302
Posted Tuesday 4th November 2008 16:21 GMT
michael mackey
No 5.1 support #
"AAC/Dolby Digital decodes in 2 channel output only"
Suppose you get what you pay for ... Back to getting the Popcorn A110 from Santa
Posted Thursday 6th November 2008 10:10 GMT
Albert
A review of it here. actually probably more of a first look #
This is not mine - just found it trawling for info.
http://maddhat.com/?p=31
I am planning to get one.
Network connectivity would be nice, but for me not a big issue.
I don't do a lot of downloading of movies, so when I rip my DVDs I'll just rip them to an external drive which will be plugged into this device.
All done and happy.
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