Western Digital unveils WD TV Play streaming box

[BIGDENNIS10UK]

ok, I thought you were talking about the actual volume. yeah, the 360 can be a rocket ship

Yeah, I was watching bbc Iplayer on it the other day, gets on my nerves with all the blowing like some old school PC.

 

[HookersandIceCream]

Nothing beats having your PC directly connected

 

[2gunsup]

360 costs 200 and you need a live subscription to use apps. It's best for streaming sports though, I'll give it that.

Not to mention the 360 consumes 175W during use compared to Roku's 5W and WDTV's 9W.

Only way I'd pick the WD device over a Roku is if it had a native Plex client or XBMC. The WD devices are capable of playing more formats out of the box than a Roku. Roku's are real picky about which MKV's they are capable of playing. That's when Plex steps in,

 

[HARLEM AL]

I don't have either my nikkas. Looking to get 1. What should I go with?

I want something I could hook a flash drive up to and play Vids if possible.

 

[bubba scotch]

I don't have either my nikkas. Looking to get 1. What should I go with?

I want something I could hook a flash drive up to and play Vids if possible.

WDTV is what you're looking for.

 

[winb83]

most PCs have HDMI on them these days. honestly what's the point of something like this in the face of that? honestly i don't even have a computer monitor in my apartment. both my PCs are hooked up to 42-55 inch TVs and due to the nature of my wireless network i can access media on either one on either TV and even if i didn't have 2 PCs i still got my HD netbook which also has HDMI on it.

even beyond that many of these Smart TVs can also access media off your home network. my LG LM7600 can for instance. unless you got a shytty TV these dedicated boxes don't seem worth much.

 

[RJY33]

WD Live Streaming>>>>>>>>>>>

Streams from your comp, USB ports for hooking up hard drives, IOS app remote, nice interface, most apps except amazon. shyts on roku and apple tv. 1080p bluray rips with DTS

 

[The Antagonist]

most PCs have HDMI on them these days. honestly what's the point of something like this in the face of that? honestly i don't even have a computer monitor in my apartment. both my PCs are hooked up to 42-55 inch TVs and due to the nature of my wireless network i can access media on either one on either TV and even if i didn't have 2 PCs i still got my HD netbook which also has HDMI on it.

even beyond that many of these Smart TVs can also access media off your home network. my LG LM7600 can for instance. unless you got a shytty TV these dedicated boxes don't seem worth much.

So if you have a TV that you bought before the Smart TV's came out are you supposed to buy a new TV just to keep up with the new technology and throw the other TV in the bushes and the money you spent with it?

 

[GoldenGlove]

WD Live Streaming>>>>>>>>>>>

Streams from your comp, USB ports for hooking up hard drives, IOS app remote, nice interface, most apps except amazon. shyts on roku and apple tv. 1080p bluray rips with DTS

Cool.

It shyts on Roku yet a Roku can do everything that you just described

 

[kash10003]

who has a netflix client that can compete with that of the ps3 or the pc though? my appletv2 netflix

 

[BIGDENNIS10UK]

most PCs have HDMI on them these days. honestly what's the point of something like this in the face of that? honestly i don't even have a computer monitor in my apartment. both my PCs are hooked up to 42-55 inch TVs and due to the nature of my wireless network i can access media on either one on either TV and even if i didn't have 2 PCs i still got my HD netbook which also has HDMI on it.

even beyond that many of these Smart TVs can also access media off your home network. my LG LM7600 can for instance. unless you got a shytty TV these dedicated boxes don't seem worth much.

Wdtv live video scraping makes my file collection look so beautiful, that's worth 70 pounds to me on its own.

My wdtv player is my favourite bit of tech I ever bought and it isn't even expensive.

 

[Kimo_bud]

Need something with xbmc

 

[HARLEM AL]

Cool.

It shyts on Roku yet a Roku can do everything that you just described

But from my understanding Roku doesnt have youtube. Am I right?

 

[newarkhiphop]

But from my understanding Roku doesnt have youtube. Am I right?

Not officially but there is a YouTube like channel if I am not mistaken

 

[HARLEM AL]

Not officially but there is a YouTube like channel if I am not mistaken

You never steered me wrong homie. so which 1 should I get?