New Western Digital WD TV Live media player hits Best Buy
By Nilay Patel 
posted October 12th 2009 12:03AM
posted October 12th 2009 12:03AM
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put Netflix on it
I just bought one at best buy. It will be replacing my popcorn A-110. The menus are very good.
Remember the blimp...
http://www.thestealthblimp.com/
I'll wait till it has Wifi.
Wifi?? Not for streaming full 1080p. Currently wired is the only way...
I stream 1080p MKV files to my Windows 7 HTPC over wireless-G (not N, G) all day without a single dropped frame.
The need for Cat-5 is a myth. The requirement for Wifi in any HT device is a must.
If this one runs linux like the old one did you can add wireless yourself via USB. http://www.wdtvc.com
WD supports USB dongles on the device.
@ 416Hammy
You wanna share your setup a bit?
What hardware, what router, etc., etc.
deleting comments about spelling mistakes in the original post seems like a slippery slope to me...
There's a reason Gizmodo is quoted in the Windows 7 commercial and not engadget.
yeah, next thing you know they might start deleting all the "FIRST!" comments too
They probably had to change it or else engadget could of lost some advertising revenue from best buy and thats how they make alot of their moneys.
unless the spelling errors where corrected...then who cares?
Nilay obviously doesn't care for Best Buy. My RSS reader said: "New Western Digital WD TV Live media player hits Bust Buy"
No, that's not it. It just means that New Zealand is getting it first... ;-)
Wouldn't that be "Bist Buy"?
does anyone know if this player (or other Youtube capable players i.e. LG BD390) can play the HD youtube streams ?
why were the old comments wiped, because they criticized the the obvious lack of proofread?
Got mine two days ago from BB. Stable and fast.
Did they update the GUI on this model? My dad loves the original, but the interface is pretty spartan and not really noob friendly.
Personally, I'd be happy if they'd just cut the file extensions off the titles, so the list looked cleaner.
The fact Engadget is censoring out comments made about Engadget's lack of proofread is just pure communism.
soviet Russia comments censor Nilay Patel!
Yeah, 'cause Engadget should totally go the democratic route and have every commenter vote on whether or not a comment should be deleted - duh!
The fact that Engadget is deleting comments which point out spelling mistakes has nothing to do with communism. If anything, it would be the fact that they're deleting comments in ANY case where they decide to...
Demo was up in local Bestbuy 4 weeks ago. Its Interesting.
That's a pretty cool product!
Did they improve the subtitles?
It says it needs Windows Vista in the specs list... Why in the world would it NEED Vista?? Couldn't I stream video to it from a Linux system??
The old one was Linux based and supported NFS. By merit of BestBuy's recent indoctrination i guess windows is all they will tell you about.
Yeah, well, no WiFi. Otherwise nice. Oh and BB: That's two brilliant product shots of the product's face, think about including a shot of the ports next time around.
It does support WiFi. Page 56 of the manual. Just add a USB wireless adapter.
I think people are making way too big a deal out of the Bust Buy thing.
All of us are prone to typos. This one was funnier than most, but it's not worth so many commenters getting their panties in a twist about it.
That said, I'd be interested in the WD TV Live if I could somehow hook my WD MyBook World Edition to it. Until then, I'll just continue using an old laptop of mine to stream the MyBook's data (and various shows from Boxee and Hulu) to my TV.
Ohhh, boy! I'm first! wwhoot whooot!
First to be downranked!
Better late than never!
looks real good and at 119 it's dope. should be around 99 soon and maybe a shade less at costco. and 1080p is tough over most wifi so i'm fine with it hard wired. It's gonna be a foot from my router anyways.
I'm thinking of getting it just because it's a WD and i like WD's haha
http://www.tvlesson.com/video/40307_western-digital-network-media-player.html
how the hell could you use Youtube without wifi? pointless.
Ever heard of Ethernet?
I got one! I like it and the HDMI connector isn't a joke, I play my 1080P Vids on and it auto switches to lesser size videos. Get a self powered USB drive for it. Mine doesn't like my WD Passport but plays with Thumb Drive and External Seagate.
I've been watching it all weekend and no problems.
wasn't this out already 2 months ago?
I have been waiting on this. I just called bestbuy.com the guy said it was in-stock. I placed my order online and it said it will be here tomorrow. I have Benn waiting since July to for the new one with Ethernet to come out. The codec support on this for a name brand company is unbelievable.
way too late WD, I got my upgrade from WDTV to Asus O'Play, $99.99 work nice, 1080p stream nicely also does DTS downmix via HDMI. plays RMVB, and all the other 1080p file wdtv would not play.
I know the old WDTV did not do DTS downmix (which is necessary for me) does the new one not do it either?
3 local bestbuys have here in norther NJ
Why does Engadget make low and lowest-ranked comments unreadable?
So that we don't have to read the crap that those comments contain. They wouldn't have gotten downranked that much if they were worth reading.
Still no DVD ISO chapter and menu support. Pass.
I have a Roku box and I'm considering getting one of these too. Fuck you though Engadget, do you have to bring up Windows anytime any Linux based device is released? Hell the licensing for Windows 7 alone would already rise any device well over $300 plus the minimum specs it would require.
Here's for more devices like this so that I can disconnect my cable/satellite
This looks nice, but I want an Internal HDD.
What vendors make one with a spot to pop in an internal HDD?
I know popcorn hour does, but I like the $100-120 price range.
that price...no one.
The only nmp's out there that even give you that option is Popcorn Hour & QNAP.
But the PCH's are over $200, and the QNAP is $400.