Western Digital WD-TV Live Digital Multimedia Player

I have looked at many similar devices for playing media on my TV. Initially I thought I would go for the WD TV, previous modle, but reviews indicated file handling was better on the 'live' version so I payed a little extra. I was not bothered for the networking capability. When I recieved the item I quickly connected to the TV and my WD passport 500Gb hard drive, which had some pictures loaded, and I was immediately watching the pictures on TV. Fantastic! I have a BT wireless router close to the TV so I connected the WD TV live to the router, though I had not really wanter networking capability,and marked some files on my computer, in a different room, as network shareable. I then tried to access from the WD TV Live, all the files were displayed and all the images and music accessable to the TV. No snags or problems. I did find that if I wanted a very large HD video file it played better if transfered to the WD Passport drive and played from there. The transfer was done via the wireless router. I also found that the WD TV Live gave quick access to internet sites such as uTube and Flicca, but these do not do anything for me and are unlikely to find much use, though the picture quallity was very good.
Although I did not want networking capability I now find I am using it a lot. A real bonus.
All in all a really great device for the money.

Purchased this Media Player and had it up running and working in 30 minutes.

Amazing piece of kit. Sat it on the Network and it found all my devices.
I have just installed a massive HP Disk/Streamer. All my films-music-photos are stored on this and the WD played them flawlessly.

I copied a few files to an external USB Drive and ran it through the WD - again worked flawlessly.
It played DivX MKV AVI MPEG ISO without a problem.

During the install process it auto updated over the Network.

Its simple to work and better than I ever expected.

Martin