Comments on: Western Digital WD TV HD Live Review

By: Flemming Lund

Flemming Lund — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:24:50 +0000

Do not buy any WD live products!! Western Digital does not care about end users!! Since I updatede my WD TV HD live it has been ruined! It cannot play moves as the NETWORK protocol is programet wrong!! I have told customerservice – but they do not care at all!! – they still uses the 1.04.10! If you want to through money out the window – then buy a WD media box!! What a terrible company!!

Flemming Lund Sørensen

By: brmwia

brmwia — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:14:04 +0000

DO NOT BUY THIS PLAYER. IT HAS FATAL FLAW. It cannot play compressed audio in MKV files. Compressed audio has been in the Matroska specs for years and is now the standard for MKV files. Further WD fails to recognize and fix this.

Also this unit has very limited support for USB Wireless adapters.

Has the potential to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Why WD doesn't support it better is mind numbing.

By: malikjb

malikjb — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:11:32 +0000

it takes an eternity to load HD videos from my Iomega hard drive. 20 to 30 minutes. Is it a compatibilty issue?

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:14:17 +0000

Video quality is outstanding when using HD files like mkv or any h.264 encoded files. If it looks good run on your 1080p computer monitor using your computer it will look good on your 1080p tv using this player.

By: Rick Kraft

Rick Kraft — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:07:49 +0000

This review is great, but, umm… how is the video quality? Yes, 1080p, great, but, does it look stunning or so-so? Looking at this product after discovering the Asus O!Play has zero support…

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:03:51 +0000

I just got one a few days ago. Are the files that have no sound WMV? I don't think that it can handle WMAPro audio, only pass it through, so if your TV/receiver can't decode it, you won't get sound. Newer HD WMV files tend to have WMAPro audio.

By: Felix Ansaldo

Felix Ansaldo — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:16:11 +0000

Some of my movie files when i play to my LCD TV using WD HD TV dont have sound.

By: barneykiller

barneykiller — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:12:40 +0000

I agree with damnclever. I wont want the wi-fi option and I'm glad they left it was just an option. JackR stop blaming WD for their low support and check the support list before you buy.

By: daveorr

daveorr — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:28:03 +0000

I don't want to pay twice and tverity loses quality in the process…..but nice try.

By: dang

dang — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:33:34 +0000

I personally think that's a con. Why not include it? Most items like this now-a-days include wifi. The cost should be marginal.

By: DamnClever

DamnClever — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:18:48 +0000

“Wireless networking costs extra”
Hang on, thats a pro not a con: More features will ALWAYS cost more – instead of everybody having to pay for wifi who doesn't want to use it, they didn't include it. Those who want it can put in a wifi dongle.

By: DamnClever

DamnClever — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:18:04 +0000

Meanwhile you can use the program TVversity to stream IPlayer to the WDTV Live

By: JackR

JackR — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:54:04 +0000

DOES NOT SUPPORT A HUGE VARIETY OF USB WIRELESS ADAPTERS !!!!!

Seriously, this is a major pain in the butt. It only supports N adapters and very few adapter at that. I went out and bought a Belkin N-150 ( F6D4050) and even this didn't work. Not happy in the slightest. Add more damn wireless adapters to the firmware you jerks.

By: daveorr

daveorr — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:40:41 +0000

Doesn't support BBC IPlayer here in the UK – a MAJOR OMISSION.

Lobby WD for BBC IPlayer support.

By: caulkehead

caulkehead — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:48:00 +0000

Have just been given a WD TV Live for Xmas – neat box of tricks and film playback via HDMI on an HD flatscreen is great. However I would like to add my voice to lobby for a firmware upgrade as soon as possible to include support for playback of AVI DV files such as produced by digital cameras and mini-dvd recorders. I too have a lot of AVI clips that I really don't want to have to re-code just to be able to play them via the WD TV Live. Having also noted the grief that some folks seem to be experiencing with the firmware upgrade to 1.01.12 I will stay with 1.01.11 for the moment until I see positive reports that whatever the problem is has been resolved.

By: MG

MG — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:41:49 +0000

They're listening – voice your support for DV format on a thread dedicated to the request:

http://community.wdc.com/t5/forums/forumtopicpage/board-id/tv_live/thread-id/315;jsessionid=ABB48C9C54A359BAC5420426BDD8776E“ rel=”nofollow”>http://community.wdc.com/t5/forums/forumtopicpa…

By: Ian Bell

Ian Bell — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:02:48 +0000

Warning!!: Firmware 1.01.12 Failed

http://wdtvhd.com/index.php?showtopic=9399" rel="nofollow">http://wdtvhd.com/index.php?showtopic=9399

Looks like a couple people are having issues with the latest Firmware update. Please post if it works for you.

P.S. Make sure you backup everything from it too (I know, the irony kills me too)

By: rosiemoto

rosiemoto — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:55:29 +0000

119 at BBuy

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:24:08 +0000

$129 dollars.

By: Pantherone1

Pantherone1 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:05:15 +0000

Save your DV tape to a different format other then AVI, plus the unit is flash upgradeable so I am sure it will include this in a future update.

By: delwar

delwar — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:32:19 +0000

how much does it cost?

By: Dimitri

Dimitri — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:14:22 +0000

Does not play AVI DV files. The ones you download from a DV tape based camcorder. It is a mayor drawback for me cause I have 400+ Gb in DV files I refuse to recode.