When you are as much of a fan like me of watching movies, then you'll be into the equipment which is required to watch these movies too. My latest purchase is a Western Digital Live TV player, or WD TV Live as it's otherwise known. The WD TV Live is a media player and streamer. What this means is it may play video footage via several file types, together with playing streaming media. Therefore, you may either connect the storage medium which houses your films on to the WD TV Live, or the WD TV Live might be attached to your network, and then plays the content over the LAN.
The WD TV Live is a nice piece of kit. It's small in proportions, as is it's remote, and the media player only requires a couple of cable connections, one for the power and the other to connect to your television. It has a simple graphical user interface, displaying the Western Digital logo as soon as the device is fired up, then after a few seconds displaying the menu, which allows you to either make changes to the devices settings, show the video, audio, and photo files currently accessible at the time and also a selection of additional features.
The WD TV Live looks the part, fitting in nicely with my home cinema setup in the living room, and it has managed to play many different files without any issue what so ever. The sole complaint I have relating to the device is the fact it does seem a tad clumsy when forwarding or rewinding HD content. To go into detail further, with some HD movies, I've noticed that whenever your forward the movie, it'll display the movie on screen and the picture changes as it normally would when forwarding, but then it might suddenly pause on the screen, so you can't see at what moment in time you choose to begin playing the movie again. It does display a time counter in the corner, to help you to tell roughly where to begin playing again, but even this isn't perfect, as it may be forwarding/rewinding, you then press play, but the media player doesn't respond for a good few seconds, therefore you go way past the mark in which you desired to begin watching, quite an issue when your forwarding/rewinding at 16x speed.
Other than this, the unit has been faultless. It's played each of the files I've thrown it's way first time, every time, and when you consider it's small size, and the grade of it's build and it's playing ability, in addition to it's price, it truly is a cracking media player.
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