Western Digital WD TV Expert Reviews

The Western Digital WDTV ($110 as of March 5, 2009) marks the hard-drive maker's first foray into the field of media players, but the move makes sense as an extension of the company's existing hard-disk products. The WDTV box lets your HDTV play media ...

HDMI, 1080p support Straightforward menu design

Slow menu interface No automatic sync software

Overall, if you want to skip the home networking approach and connect a media-filled hard drive up to your television, the WDTV is a good bet. Full 1080p support and HDMI connectivity makes it an especially viable option for home-theater users

A certain class of people have long wanted to easily download and play files on their massive flat-panel TVs. This powerful special interest group is responsible for many of the technological innovations that drive our modern economy. They are ...

Displays video content in up to 1080p. Optical audio-out lets you jack into the hi-fi with optimal sound quality. Makes it easy to force guests to watch your unedited vacation footage by slurping movies off the family videocam. Menus easy to navigate ...

No RAW files. Comes only with composite cables. Tendency to choke on .wmv files. Thumbs down to the engineer who decided the WDTV didn't have to talk with your computer or card reader. Seriously, how hard would it have been to throw an ethernet jack ...

Western Digital's WD TV is simply the most accomplished, most affordable media player we've ever seen.

In fact, strictly speaking, the WD TV isn't a multimedia hard disk at all, as it doesn't have a built-in hard disk of its own. However, it does have two USB interfaces that allow you to connect it to any existing USB hard disk that you already own, as ...

Cheap, easy to use, 1080p output

No built-in hard disk, no video input or recording option

If you have a large collection of digital media in the home then there's a range of solutions available to help you stream that content from a computer to a TV, or pack a spacey internal ...

We were extremely impressed by how easy the WDTV was to use and how hard the company has worked to provide an excellent degree of format support and a great way to control your digital media. Those who desire network support or internal storage may ...

The Western Digital WD TV marks the hard-drive maker's first foray into the field of media players, but the move makes sense as an extension of the company's existing hard-disk products.

Overall, if you want to skip the home networking approach and connect a media-filled hard drive up to your television, the Western Digital WD TV is a good bet. Full 1080p support and HDMI connectivity makes it an especially viable option for home ...

western digital wd tv review: Western Digital comes to the media streaming party with a product set to shake.

Great format support, Great price, HDMI out, Optical audio out, High definition interface, Supports NTFS, FAT and HFS formatted devices, USB rear positioning not so good, Doesn't understand ISO structure very well, No ethernet, Cheap infra-red remote ...

USB rear positioning not so good, Doesn't understand ISO structure very well, No ethernet, Cheap infra-red remote is finnicky, No video skipping, only seek, No HDMI cable included, Be wary of some device compatibility, Supplied encoding software is ...

The WDTV of Western Digital is a digital mediastreamer which, unlike are competitive, no network or internal storage offers. The device must be connected to an external USB drive you want to watch film .

+ pleasant interface + + impressive performance much control over files

- no internal capacity or network connection

Western Digital has an excellent mediastreamer the WDTV owned. The design is entirely in order, as the price, which we do not see a downside that we need for storage capacity. Who like to play media files on TV, the WDTV certainly serious consideration be...

Western digital wdtv is a very functional media player that supports most file formats. Most testers like what they see and distributes high grade .