| Western Digital WD TV HD Media Player WDBABF0000NBK-NESN | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $129.99
Buy New: $78.00
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Rating:  75 reviews
Format: CD
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
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Operating System: N/A
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 3.9 x 4.9 x 1.6
MPN: WDBABF0000NBK-NESN
Model: WDBABF0000NBK-NESN
UPC: 718037752464
EAN: 0718037752464
ASIN: B002USAIYS
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Play Full HD 1080p video, music and photos on your HD TV | | • | Play a wide variety of file formats | | • | Dolby Digital 5.1 & DTS audio support | | • | DVD-like menu |
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Product Description
Turn your USB drive into an HD media player.Store your HD content on a USB drive. Plug the drive in and play HD movies, digital music and family photos on your TV. It's as easy as 1-2-3. Combined with a My Passport portable drive (sold separately), this player is the most convenient way to play HD movies or user-generated videos, listen to high-quality digital music and show high-resolution slideshows of your family photos on your TV. Also works with popular USB drives, and digital cameras, camcorders, and portable media players that can be recognized as mass storage devices. Optimized for My Passport and My Book storage, works with many other USB storage devices - Play content from most popular USB drives,and digital cameras, camcorders, and portable media players that can be recognized as mass storage devices. Full HD video playback and navigation - up to 1080p - Experience the spectacular picture quality of HD video and crystal clear sound clarity of digital audio. Use the included remote control to navigate through your entertainment choices using our crisp, animated HD menus. Collect without limits - There's no limit to the size of your media collection; just add more USB drives for more space. Advanced navigation Thumbnail and list views - Browse your content by filename or by thumbnails of photos, album covers and movie cover art.Media Library - This unique feature lets you view all your media by media type in one menu regardless of its location in folders or drives. You can view your content by categories such as genre, album, artist and date.Search - Search by genre, title, artist, filename and partial filename.Photo viewing Create custom slide shows with a variety of transitions and background musicZoom and panSearch by filename, partial filename, most recently viewed and dateMovie viewing Fast forward, rewind, pause, zoom, and panView subtitlesSea
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 Outstanding Device for the money! December 22, 2009
LoveMyToys (Long Island, NY)
47 out of 50 found this review helpful
I purchased the WDTV Media Player (version 2) through Amazon two weeks ago. I have an extensive collection of movies and tv shows that I have ripped from my blurays and dvds over the past few years, plus downloads etc (over 2.8 gigs worth and counting). I built a HTPC 1.5 years ago and always hoped there would be a simple, inexpensive solution that would allow me to easily transfer my media to the TV without constantly playing with settings to the point where my wife is getting up from the couch out of boredom.
Along came the WDTV Media Player, the best solution for someone like me. I have tried as hard as I can to dig up a format (H.264, X.264, .mkv, .flac, .omg etc.) or problem to throw at this device to muck it up and I have yet to succeed. It has even been able to playback halfway decompressed files. I have it hooked up by HDMI through a Pioneer 819 AVR and set to bitstream audio codecs. I have had none of the audio syncing issues that were prevalent in the first generation machines. The user interface is attractive and intuitive. If you are use to using a HD set top box from your cable company and a PVR/DVR, this is basically the same functionality. Set up takes minutes and playback is beautiful. Unlike an previous reviewer, I have found that playback on standard definition content to be excellent. It upscales as well as any high quality dvd/bluray player. For HD playback, playback is just as good as bluray--without and time lag between pressing play and start time.
As with any device, it has its flaws-although they are minor in the scheme of things. First, it will not play menus from ripped DVD's and blurays (only the largest file in the rip, i.e. the movie). The WDTV does have its own menu that allows you to change audio tracks and subtitles on the fly. Unless the chapters are ripped and formatted correctly, you cannot skip to the next chapter. This sounds like a bigger problem than it is. This can be rectified by ripping with better quality software. If you downloaded your movie with bit torrent, you get what you pay for with your "free"/stolen content. Even using content without the ability to skip chapters, fast forward and reverse work quicker than on my panny bluray player and I am able to fast forward up 16x speed and the devise allows you to skip ahead in 30 second intervals (just enough to allow you to jump ahead of commercials from video capture off your cable box).
Other minor gripes: They are not able to bitstream lossless sound codecs (TrueHD and DTS-HD MA). Frankly, this is minor and most people will be happy with Dolby Digital and DTS (which the WDTV v2 and Live can send by bitstream over the HDMI capable--a feature lacking in the first gen WDTV). I have been told by people familiar with the Sigma 3365 processor that firmware may allow it to bitstream TrueHD, although probably not DTS-HDMA). We'll have to wait an see.
I have seen the Asus, Seagate and Popcorn C-110 and, they all have their pro's and con's. Dollar for dollar, the WDTV (v2) or WDTV Live (for an extra $20) are the best media players on the market. I give this three thumbs up and my strongest recommendation.
Update: 12/29/09 I picked up an WD HD Live at one of the big chain electric stores over the weekend to see if it was worth the extra few dollars. Pandora internet radio is a nice feature and I think the Live has a lot of "potential". There are some problems though. To test the machine, I tried to set up with a wireless dongle (g--i don't have a wireless n dogggle although I am not sure it would make much differenec). I also used a direct ethernet connection (obviously the best way to set it up).
First, HD streaming from a network harddrive was disappointing. Although 720P playback was usually not bad through ethernet. It did stutter and lose audio sync from time to time. If I paused playback to allow the WDTV LIve to rebuffer (or HDD drive--I am not entirely sure which devise had the issue), it seemed to fix the problem for a while. Using the dongle, playback about the same as with the ethernet. To be clear, some files played back without a hitch and others were far more problematic. The same files played perfectly on both the WD TV Live and WD TV (v2) when connected directly to a USB HDD.
With respect to 1080P playback, there were some significant hiccups. Using the network, playback stuttered badly on more than half of the files played. It appeared that the machine was dropping frames and lost audio sync. This was more prevalent when playing back large files (17 gig archived BD movies for example). Smaller 1080P files (8-12G) played about as well as 720P--some played perfectly and others with only minor issues. all files, however, played without issue using a direct usb harddrive. In my bedroom I am using an LG BD player that already has netflix, YouTube and pandora. The WD does not handle netflix, and the other services are redundant (Pandora is nice, but, frankly, YouTube is a pain to use with all of these systems).
In conclusion, the WDTV Live and WDTV (v2)have the same capabilities when used as stand alone devices connected to USB harddrives. Although I didn't mention this earlier, streaming SD content from a network was no problem with the Live. HD streaming capabilities were suspect, particularly with large files. As a caveat, other more sophisticated videophiles may have the time and computing power to convert larger HD files into smaller formats that will stream better. The thought of using handbrake to downsize my entire collection is not something I have any intention of doing. The WD TV LIve is a great first start. With some more firmware updates, it may be a better network streamer, but I think network streaming for 1080P is still a generation or two away from prime time.
So simple even a cave dweller can use it! December 12, 2009
hyytekk
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
With the advent of high definition media, even the least tech savvy person can easily accumulate terabytes worth of movies, music, and photos. Our parents solved the challenge of data management with a sturdy shoe box and a few scrap books and photo albums; but if you own a digital camera and dvd player, the new dust collecting repository is likely the hard-drive in your computer where those home movies of Jr. eating SpaghettiOs and all 12 sequels of Rambo are backed up. The Gordian knot riddle for our inner nerd is how to get all that stuff to travel from the computer hard drive onto the HD plasma TV in the great room. There are complicated and expensive solutions of streaming them wirelessly or running long wires everywhere. But the minds at Western Digital came up with this elegantly simple solution. Your "stuff" must be stored on an external hard drive which is so easy, even a Geico customer can put it there. (In case you are less evolved, a hard drive with a terabyte of storage, which can hold, oh, 120 uncompressed dvds of movies, sells for around $100 these days.) With this devise, you simply plug in the external hard drive in the back if it, then plug another wire (HDMI connector or 3 plug RCA connector....see your 8 year old if you need a primer on what those things are) into this media player and the other end into your TV. A menu comes up on the TV screen giving you the choice of which type of media that's stored on the hard drive that you want to play. Pick video and all your movies will appear as icons. The included small remote control makes the navigation very simple and quickly you're watching your movie, photos or music. Well, listening to the last one. If you travel and don't want to pack a DVD player along or watch a movie on your laptop, this offers a great solution for viewing on the hotel room tv. The unit is smaller than I imagined it would be at roughly 5" by 4" inches by 1 1/2". There's no on/off switch, you simply plug it in for power. Construction-wise it's made of piano-shiny hard plastic which feels solid put not impervious to falls on hard surfaces and it's a fingerprint magnet. If I were to change anything about the design, it might be to have a "Plug" built into it so you can plug your external hard drive into it directly to eliminate the need for two electric outlets, one for the device and one for your hard drive. On the negative side, if you're using it in your travels, it's still a little cumbersome to carry the unit, it's power cord, a hard drive with it's power cord, and then the usb cord to connect the two and an HDMI cord as well. In a stationary location that's not an issue of course. I imagine in time the folks at Western Digital will have another epiphany and come out with a portable hard drive that has this circuitry built into it already making for a much less cumbersome portable solution. It works well and offers a solution to schlepping around dozens of DVD's and, well, shoe boxes. I like it a lot with the caveat of wires and plugs if you'll be moving it regularly.
Great Media Player - Menu Options Could Be Better December 17, 2009
A. Naik
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
We use this to play .mpg and .avi movies stored on a 1.5TB Western Digital harddrive and the system is up 24/7. The system runs pretty cool and very reliable. I'm not sure how, but it manages to decode all codecs, even ones that my laptop won't play.
The only one complaint I have is that the menu options aren't very descriptive. Short of that, this thing is great.
I purchased this as an experiment and after confirming it works, I've purchased 6 more. Would definately recommend it to anyone who does not need networking functionality!
No more burning DVDs this plays them all March 21, 2010
Michael (Paris, France)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This little device works great. I was a bit suspicious at first because our DVD / divx reader often won't all the movies but this one has read everything. The menu navigation is just fine, I have my movies in directories and I can always find the movie we want within a few seconds. The best feature is if you turn it off in the middle of a movie and then go to watch that same movie at a later time it'll ask you if you want to resume. It'll also play the next movie in the same folder. I'm using it on an old TV, will be trying it on an HD TV next week.
Just what I needed. March 28, 2010
Doc
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I haven't used the HDMI link yet, but I can't imagine that it wouldn't work just as well as everything else on this system. Several of my other televisions have a USB port from which I can play movies and music; one system does not. Using this WD device, I can play movies and music from any USB thumb, drive, or even my iPod (when used as a storage device). Since I have ripped most of my DVDs to electronic versions, I can watch my entire library through a single remote and intutive interface.
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