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Always using your laptop with small screen and poor sound to look at video’s, photos or listen to internet radio? You can now get these very easily on you HD TV in your living room with the Western Digital TV Live media player.

This amazing little piece of equipment, it measures only 4 by 10 by 12,5 cm (h*l*w), lets

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Besides media content located on the internet you can also view content from a USB stick, USB drive or pocket camera. Since you have the media player connected to your home network you can access media files anywhere on your network by creating a network share.

Enabling the network share from a Windows 7 system requires some specific settings on the pc. Watch this YouTube video by “thecomputerguyonline” to get your settings right. It worked for me, tnx man!

The WD TV Live media player gets automatically updated via the internet and it plays like anything. Supported file formats;

  • Video - 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, WMV9
  • Photo - JPEG, GIF, TIF/TIFF, BMP, PNG
  • Audio - MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, AIF/AIFF, OGG, Dolby Digital, DTS
  • Playlist - PLS, M3U, WPL
  • Subtitle - SRT, ASS, SSA, SUB, SMI

 More information on the WD TV Live can be found here (external link).

 

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+1 #2 2010-01-17 20:47
Still 1 feature missing; when powered, the device starts running instead of starting in stand-by mode, something for the next firmware update?
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0 #1 2010-01-17 20:46
There is a firmware update available for the WD TV Live (1.01.17), Changes:
Improves the reliability of the WD TV Live firmware upgrade manager by incorporating a more robust method of upgrading firmware over the internet.
Includes all previously released updates.
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