Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player - WDBHG70000NBK-HESNComputerForUse

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List Price : $129.99 Price : Too low to display

Product Description

Wirelessly stream the latest movies, hit TV shows, Internet entertainment, and your personal media collection to the biggest screen in the house. With the WD TV Live streaming media player, you can enjoy it all in the comfort of your living room in Full-HD 1080p.

Enjoy Internet entertainment on your TV
Play your personal media collection
Built-in Wi-Fi and intuitive interface
High-performance, streaming-ready WiFi
Bring the arcade to your HDTV

Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player - WDBHG70000NBK-HESN Reviews

46 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

Plays everything the others won't!, October 12, 2011

invisiblexninjas (Aurora, Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player - WDBHG70000NBK-HESN (Electronics)

I got this media player elsewhere locally, before Amazon dropped their price. Anyway, the GUI is fine. It's easily navigable, not cluttered at all, presented in a beautiful package, and certainly easy to read. All pluses there. The first videos I attempted to play were 720p mkv files over wireless network (on a 1TB HDD connected to my computer in the basement via USB). After taking a few seconds to gather the first few pictures from the USB--> wireless connected storage device, the WDTV Live streamed the videos seamlessly! I even paused one for like 8 minutes while making dinner, and it resumed with no noticeable glitches, artifacts, or rendering/buffering. The second (and only other) file type I attempted to play was a 1080p TS file I had recorded from my cable box. This took a little bit longer between hitting play and seeing video on the screen, but time was minimal. I want to say no more than 4 or 5 seconds. Again, it had to pull the video from the HDD to the computer via USB, and... Read more

48 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

Best choice for the $100 range of devices, October 11, 2011

Chaz Palio - See all my reviews

This review is from: Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player - WDBHG70000NBK-HESN (Electronics)

I want to start by letting you all know that I'm very picky about my electronics and I'm not easily satisfied nowadays, so I always play with several products before sticking with one. I've gone through the wdtv live plus (grey model with small remote), sony smp-n100, and the apple tv 2 before trying out this device (also used various BD players, gaming consoles for netflix/youtube streaming). I must say that this unit takes the cake in terms of what you get for the price.

Too lazy to give you my full story and thoughts so I'm just going to sum it up and give comparisons to the atv2, which I'd consider the next best choice for a set top box.

-Video quality exceeded my expectations (netflix, youtube, network streaming)
-Youtube steams HD (unlike smp-n100 and other revisions of the wdtv live/plus)
-Wifi is integrated in this unit but won't see my N network (no big deal)
-Youtube won't allow you to access your subscriptions from the app, only your... Read more

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36 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

Nice upgrades but could've been much better, October 8, 2011

barnyard (NJ) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player - WDBHG70000NBK-HESN (Electronics)

This product is a nice upgrade over the previous model since it does add Wifi and a greatly improved GUI. But some of the new features are kind of handicapped.

-The wireless N function of this device is 2.4ghz only. So if you have a 5ghz wireless N network you will be stuck either changing your router settings or using wireless G

-The metadata information only downloads for files that are directly attached to the device through USB not over the network.

-Unable to rate or add favorites for your files or folders over the network, only on directly attached storage.

Overall, still a great product since it plays everything I've thrown at it but could've been much better.