Western Digital TV – HD Media Player – Review

WD TV Pack (Box)

Western Digital is well known for its Storage Devices (both the External & Internal Hard Drives) world-wide. As the media players like: Ipods, DVD Players, PMPs & Blu-Ray players are getting popular and users are getting bugged with writing all their data on to DVDs, etc for playing them, Western Digital has come up with a great solution/product.

WDTV is the HD Media Player from Western Digital that acts as a bridge/interface between your storage device (like: USB Flash drives, Internal & Eternal Hard Disks, etc)  and the Display unit (like: LCD Tv, Plasma Tv, regular Color Tv & the Monitors). We can play all our media collection (Video, Audio & Pictures) from the hard drive and get them projected onto our TV.

how does WDTV work?

More than anything, WDTV is capable of playing numerous Video/Audio formats at various high resolutions (upto 1080P).So now, we can watch all the Blu-Ray Rips & Full HD clips (downloaded from Internet) on our LCD Tv without investing on an over-expensive Blu-Ray player. It’s time to copy back all your old collection to any of your Hard Disk, connect it to the WDTV and enjoy the Video/Audio.

WDTV plays most of the VIDEO FORMATS like: MPEG1/2/4, WMV9, AVI (MPEG4, Xvid, AVC), H.264, MKV, MOV (MPEG4, H.264), MTS, TP, TS and even the VOB files.

AUDIO FORMATS include: MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV/PCM/LPCM, AAC, FLAC, Dolby Digital, AIF/AIFF, MKA

how does WD TV look?

A Hard Disk or a Flash Drive will be connected to the “WD TV HD Media Player” through an USB port and inturn, the WD TV can be connected to a TV’s HDMI or Composite input. If you have a receiver in between, you can always pass-through the HDMI signal through it for original audio (DTS/Dolby) re-production through your 5.1/7.1 speakers.

As of now, the WD TV have the controls only on the remote but not on the player. Adding to that, WD TV doesn’t have the feature of skipping through a movie.

WD TV weighs around 300 gms, size is a bit above an I-Phone and the cost is around 6,500 rs in the Indian market (99$ on Amazon though)….! The market for HD Media Players is just heating up with few other prominent players like: Popcorn Hour A-110. We are yet to see the best and for now: WD TV is highly RECOMMENDED!