Western Digital WD TV Price Review

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Western Digital WD TV specifications:
  • Enjoy Internet entertainment on your TV
  • Play your personal media collection
  • Built in Wi Fi and intuitive interface
  • High performance, streaming ready WiFi
  • Bring the arcade to your HDTV



Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player – WDBHG70000NBK-HESN Price and Description:
WD TV Live Streaming Media Player Play movies, music, photos and the best of the Internet on your HDTV. Wirelessly stream the new movies, hit TV shows, Internet entertainment, and your personal media collection to the biggest screen in the house. With the WD TV Live streaming media player, you may be able to enjoy it all in the comfort of your living room in Full HD 1080p.


Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player – WDBHG70000NBK-HESN Reviews and Price:


97 of 103 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of five stars Plays everything the others won’t!, October 12, 2011
By invisiblexninjas (Aurora, Colorado, USA) See all my reviews This review is from: Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player WDBHG70000NBK HESN (Electronics) I got this media player elsewhere locally, before dropped their price. Nevertheless the GUI is good. It is easily navigable, not cluttered at all, presented in a beautiful package, and surely easy to read. All pluses there. The 1st videos I attempted to play were 720p mkv files over wireless network (on a 1TB HDD connected to my computer in the basement via USB). After taking some seconds to gather the 1st not many pictures from the USB > Wireless connected storage device, the WDTV Live streamed the videos seamlessly! I paused one for like eight minutes while making dinner, and it resumed with no obvious glitches, artifacts, or rendering/buffering. The second (and only other) file type I attempted to play was a 1080p TS file I had recorded from my cable box. This took a bit longer between hitting play and seeing video on the screen, but time was minimal. I want to say no more than four or five seconds. Again, it had to pull the video from the HDD to the computer via USB, , then again from the computer to the media player over the wireless G network. This video also played flawlessly! No artifacting, no rendering/buffering/, no audio sync issues or dropped frames. It plays video from hella far away on the network beautifully, and resumes from pause just as well! I only have two cons listed below:

The out of box direct software update took EONS! I waited for the newest firmware to download for nearly 30 minutes.
The remote control has greatly raised rubber buttons that can not be pressed in fast succession, or must be pressed a bit harder to get signal sent. It is annoying, but I am sure I will get used to it. (Also, on this note, there are privately developed remote control apps for both Android and iOS in their respective app stores which can be an alternative for myself or many of you)

In conclusion, the new interface is exactly what I expected (if not better) after seeing last years release of the GUI on the hub. This player plays totally everything! It plays things from peripherals on computers two floors down in my house wirelessly with little wait time or observable effort. The price point is great, and the product doesn’t disappoint.




61 of 63 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of five stars Excellent Network File Streaming Device!, November 12, 2011
By Jason Krol (Jamison, PA USA) See all my reviews
(REAL NAME) () This review is from: Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player WDBHG70000NBK HESN (Electronics) I newly decided to start a little weekend project of totally digitizing my 200+ home DVD collection. I wont get into any arguments over the legal ramifications of this kind of project, but rest guaranteed every digital movie in my collection is a straight rip of a physical DVD I own. That being said, I really needed a good choice to really “deliver” these movies to my HD TV in my living room. I have an Xbox 360 but that just didnt seem to be making the cut. So I started researching these cool smart set top boxes.

At 1st I has been convinced the Roku XS two was the way to go but I started reading more and more about its lack of particular filetype support (i.E. MKV, M4V, AVI to name a few). That and it really didnt do network streaming/sharing well (if at all). I saw the WD TV Live HUB with 1TB harddrive for 199 and thought that was just a little too steep for my price range (the Roku is 99 afterall). Then I somehow accidentally found this device on Amazon. The price was right, and the specifications seemed right. Too good to be true?

No! This device is incredible! 1st of all, I cant get over how tiny it is! Its literally thinner than a regular DVD case and maybe as tall as two dvds stacked. It sits nicely right beside my 360 with many breathing room! It only comes with a cheap pair of composite (or maybe part I didnt check) cables but I quickly ignored them caused by another HDMI cable I had lying around. That coupled with the extra optical cable I had also finished this package though Im sure many will argue that its pretty missing that the unit didnt come with either in the box (I agree but both cables can just be bought for another ten bucks so not that big of a deal and I did have extras lying around).

Basically, setup took seconds and I had it online in no time. It found my wifi box now though it appeared to have little to no “connection” strength (it showed no bars). This isnt strange as my wifi router is pretty weak and my laptop steadily has issues dropping the connection etc which is unfortunate because the box is only upstairs and like 20 feet away?! But I digress. After the wifi connected I downloaded all the new firmwares (quickly and painlessly) and was up and running! All the online services you could want are on the dashboard. Some notables I saw missing were Unbox and HBO Go but Im not sure what the situation is with those on other devices (Roku supports Unbox I think? 360 will have HBO Go in like three weeks?). But, this review really wont/doesnt cover all of those online services available to the unit. I tried Netflix and Pandora and they both worked good. There are some games preinstalled which is neat I guess.

So, afterward in the night I put it through its paces. I just threw every kind of movie file I could at it, all with different file sizes and resolution (all streamed off a network share). I tried many 480p DVD rips of M4Vs, many 720p AVIs, many 1080p MKVs. All streamed flawlessly (even over my poor wifi connection!). I was never disappointed. Browsing the folder structure via the network share was fast and painless with no delay (with only 120ish folders so far). Afterward in the night by the time I was on my third movie I noticed that the lip syncing was off. I started to panic! Was my too good to be true situation starting to show its true colors?! I tried some other movies and all seemed good, but that one with the syncing issue was consistent. Then I noticed in the fast alternatives a Lip Syncing delay choice. Toggling this (delay or advance) by 100ms chunks fixed the problem perfectly! I was relieved to see that this choice existed and it was so fast and easy to get too as I could see this being an issue for certain files etc. Lastly the only other issue I really noticed was that home videos taken with my Flip cam (1080p mp4s) were choppy and delayed/unwatchable. I experienced this before on every device Ive tried to watch them on (i.E. 360/PS3/etc). I have to assume that this is simply the result of trying to stream a file thats too big over my weak wifi network. Hopefully a Wireless N router will find its way under the Christmas tree this year!

At the end of the night I was thrilled with the little device! Its doing exactly what I could want and more! My ONLY function for purchasing the unit was to stream my digital DVD collection via my network. The fact that I can throw an external HDD on the unit if I want to stop dealing with the network is gravy! Add on top the online services like HuluPlus, Netflix, Blockbuster, Pandora, etc, etc, and I have one tiny little unit that packs a pretty punch! Most users here will review the online services and only glance over the networking/file type support. Hopefully Ive done the reverse here and covered all the “other” angles that majority of people arent worried with!

PS Its worth noting that I cant really see a reason to get the costly WD TV Live HUB with fitted 1TB harddrive. Its missing WIFI and something else I cant recall but you may be able to get an external 1TB drive for just one hundred bucks anyway These days and just attach to the WD TV Live unit and have the same situation only better (because you have a replaceable drive AND wifi built in!).




105 of 114 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of five stars Best choice for the $100 range of devices, October 11, 2011
By Chaz Palio See all my reviews
(REAL NAME) This review is from: Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player WDBHG70000NBK HESN (Electronics) I want to start by letting you all know that I am picky about my electronics and I am not easily pleased These days, so I generally play with some number of merchandise before sticking with one. I have gone through the wdtv live plus (grey model with small remote), sony smp n100, and the apple tv two before trying out this device (also used different BD players, gaming consoles for netflix/youtube streaming). I must say that this unit takes the cake by what you get for the price.

Too lazy to get you my full story and thoughts so I am just going to sum it up and give comparisons to the atv2, which I’d think about the next best choice for a set top box.

Video quality exceeded my expectations (netflix, youtube, network streaming)
Youtube steams HD (unlike smp n100 and other revisions of the wdtv live/plus)
Wifi is integrated in this unit but will not see my N network (no big deal)
Youtube will not let you to access your subscriptions from the app, only your favorites list, search, liked videos, and your published videos (biggest downside for me)
Can stream almost every video file format I could ever use
Netflix app on this device functions well, better than other devices I have used.
Includes some games like chess, memory, dumb boring stuff usually.
The remote is more responsive and has more buttons (which I love) than the other model I used (WDBABF0000NBK NESN)

Okay, now for my comparison of the WDBHG70000NBK vs the apple tv:

Both devices operate very well in comparison to the sony smp n100 and the wdtv live (WDBABF0000NBK NESN).
I was happy with the performance of Youtube and Netflix on both the apple tv two and the WDTV live; but, I appreciated the interface of the atv2 Netflix app somewhat more simply because it gave me more choices and allowed me to identify sub genres of movies to decide from and giving me alike movie/tv choices depending on the content that is now selected. Alike to how Youtube shows related videos on the sidebar. The wdtv live had somewhat better loading times with netflix buffering than the atv2 but not by much. The big selling point for me on the wdtv live was the fact that it steadily streams HD and does not change the video quality as frequently as atv2 did while watching Netflix. I hated switching from HD to SD or worse throughout a movie!!! The atv2 also has a observably blurry/pixelated image quality while streaming HD content. That alone was the reason why I had to attempt out this alteration of the wdtv live. This unit doesn’t experience the loss of image quality that my atv2 had went through, but I read someplace that atv2 uses a different bandwidth standard for HD streaming than other devices and will dynamically change the quality while streaming without notice to avoid commotions. I have a 20Mb downstream rate. Still looked ugly with my 20Mb connection so I’d avoid that unit if picture quality is vital to you. Your wife most likely will not find it irritating but if you have gotten used to the clearness of 720p, you’ll see the lack of concentrate and pixelation while using netflix on the atv2 (youtube was less noticeable). Jailbreaking the atv2 was a big selling point for me and I believe, increases the value of the unit by at least another $100 if you use the sofa surfer addon or xbmc :) I will not go into that but google it if you want to learn about it.
WDTV live also supports nearly every video format you’d ever want to stream from your pc so you wont have to go through the annoyance of converting file types to make them work on your device. Atv2 lacks strongly in this department.

Alright, I am to get restless typing all this . I’d rate the wdtv live a 9/10 and the atv2 an 7.9/10.
I’d greatly recommend this device particularly for the price!

PS If you purchase elsewhere, be sure you purchase this unit with the big remote (as seen in the picture listed) not the variant with the tiny remote, that is the old model and it sucks compared this this one. I am too lazy to list the details, just take my word for it. I am a wizard.

Edit 1: Found two minor negatives about this device that I’d like to deal with here for the maker to make notice of:

1. HDMI cec can not turn off the device when Netflix app is open caused by acknowledgement prompt.
2. Youtube app will include subscriptions section or the capability to view only videos from particular users.




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