![]() Also in the package is a CD which includes ArcSoft MediaConverter 2.5, some demo files to try out and the manual. The WD TV does come with a nice matching black stand to seat your My Passport Essential drive - sneaky Western Digital, but a nice idea. Inside the package of the WD TV, Western Digital also include a $20 USD off ticket (promo code) when you buy a My Passport Essential portable USB hard disk drive, as well as 20% off on protector cases for the drive. However, if you consider the cost for even building the most basic HTPC that can do the same as the WD TV, things begin to look a whole lot better for that asking price. We would like to see it drop in price to around the magic $99 USD mark, but we cannot have everything our way. You can currently pick up the WD TV from Newegg for a very reasonable $109.99 USD shipped to your door $20 less than what it's going for at the WD Shop. We were a bit skeptical about such a small device being able to properly playback 720p AND 1080p content, but it did it remarkably well with no frame skipping, visual artifacts or anything to cause concern at all. It is just a basic product that allows you to play media on your TV and it does a fantastic job of doing it. All of the basic stuff you would expect is there.ĭon't expect it to be a replacement for your home theater PC, it is not but having said that, it is not designed to be either. You can skip scenes and fast forward and rewind in movies. It has some basic functionality built-in such as being able to zoom in on images and rotate, but that's about the extent of it. It is VERY easy to use and turns on and off in a flash - no fuss or hassle. Nevertheless, very impressive.Īs you will see if you watch the video above, the WD TV is a very simple and effective device. We estimate we had it working up to eight meters away, but any further and it just stopped responding. We are happy to report that the WD TV remote has very good range for its size - we even had to go outside, its range was so good. Some products come with really shocking remote controls with very poor range. It comes with a cute little IR remote control that works very well indeed - finally we see a product that includes batteries. ![]() We thought it may have issues with using two USB ports on one device, but it worked well. We also tried out an external caddie that uses two USB ports (one for data and one for power) and it was also detected and worked fine. One little fault about the location of the USB port on the back of the unit - it is too close to the other connectors, which means that larger pen drives such as the 64GB drive from Patriot will not fit - only standard width flash drives will fit. We tested the unit with a 64GB pen drive from Patriot and it worked fine detecting it and playing back - plug n play is supported, no need to keep turning the device on and off all of the time. It really is just that - it doesn't come with any internal storage and sadly no Ethernet networking support, but it does include two hi-speed USB 2.0 ports, which allows you to hook up two external hard drives or USB flash drives which use a FAT32, NTFS or HFS+ (no journaling) file system. You could think of it as a DVD player without the optical DVD drive and a home theater PC without the full functionality of a computer.
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