Western Digital Hd Tv Media Player

If you're a fan of putting your feet up and watching a good flick, and in particular, movies stored on your computers hard-drive, with the capability to view in full Hd, then this microscopic black box may well be the extreme electronics tool you've been finding for.

In expanding to playing your popular movies, you can view images in a collection of dissimilar formats as well as playback audio files, through the on screen interface with interesting Hd menus - read on for a faultless list of supported file types!

Hd Media Player

In the past if you wanted to watch a movie file stored on your computer from you had to.....

* Watch it on your computer (oh my aching eyes)

* Burn the file to a disc, the question here is, if your Dvd player hasn't got the precise Codecs for your video file (I'll touch on Codecs shortly) then chances are the disc won't play anyway, then you've gotta turn the file to a format your player can read & re-burn it! (yawn)

* Plug your laptop directly to the Television via S-Video connection, question here is a titanic loss of audio/video quality, not to mention it's a right pain in the butt hooking it up every time you want to watch a movie.

* replacement the video file onto an External hard/flash drive, or Sd card and join together via Usb to the Tv/Dvd (provided the Tv/Dvd has Usb ports of course).You'll find many Dvd Players & Digital Televisions nowadays have Usb or Sd card connectivity but you can run into the same question as with the "Disc Playback Errors" due to the absence of confident Codecs.

I'm going to try and keep this record as uncomplicated as I can, because this subject can get confusing very quickly and frankly the midpoint man doesn't unmistakably give a flying nun, so..... A "Codec" is a piece of software, that gets its name from the function it performs, ie.enabling Compression/Decompression of a video file. So lets take your midpoint run of the mill Dvd from down the local video Store, it is created with the proper Mpeg4 codec e.g. "Xvid" and can then be played back using any other proper Mpeg4 Codec, such as "DivX" or "Ffmpeg" codecs and so on, and all reside within your household Dvd player.

This is where problems can arise when trying to playback a video file obtained online, because of the huge collection of dissimilar file formats out there and their connected Codecs, many Dvd players just can't identify them and they subsequently won't play.

Enter the, Western Digital Wd Tv Hd 1080p Media Player.

You can join together to your Television using whether a proper Av cable(red,white,yellow) or a singular Hdmi cable, assuming your Tv is Hdmi capable that is, and that's it! All you need now is to plug in your external Hard Drive, or Flash Drive.Two Usb Ports is a great feature but the expanding of an Sd Card Slot would have been a nice for photo viewing.

Note - relationship Direct To A Computer Is Not Possible!

If you didn't already know the 1080p basically means "Full High Definition" and that's exactly what you get, when using the Hdmi cable connected to a Hdmi Television. 1080 refers to a screen resolution of 1080 pixels High X 1920 pixels Wide, under the assumption of a 16:9 Widescreen Aspect Ratio.

Supported Video File Formats/Codecs include - Mpeg1/2/4, Wmv9, Avi (Mpeg4, Xvid, Avc), H.264, Mkv, Mov (Mpeg4, H.264),
Mts, Tp, Ts

What this means is that the Western Digital will deal with most of the popular video formats you will encounter on the Internet today, together with Mkv (or Matroska) a format becoming increasingly more popular for it's versatility, having said that there is a few formats absent that other media players in its class support, together with Flv, & Rmbv.

Supported Image File Formats Include- Jpeg/Jpg, Gif, Tif/Tiff, Bmp, Png

* Jpeg only supports compressed Rgb format files. Bmp only supports uncompressed files. Tiff only supports singular layer files. Bmp, Tiff/Tif, Png, and Gif have a max resolution of 2048×2048. Jpeg/Jpg has a max resolution of 4096×4096 unless it is in a progressive format, then maxes out at 1280×720.

Supported Audio File Formats include - Mp3, Wma, Mpa, M4A, Mp4A, Ogg, Wav/Pcm/Lpcm, Aac, Flac, Dolby Digital, Aif/Aiff, Mka

Other Formats include -

Playlists - Pls, M3U, Wpl

Subtitles - Srt, Smi, Sub, Ass, Ssa

Pros -

Ease of use, setting up is child's play and with all the controls at your finger tips, watching High-Def article couldn't be easier.

The playable formats ready on this unit are more than adequate for accessing most popular media together with "Mkv" video, which is absent in some other media players in this range.

Full 1080p Hd compatible.

The expanding of two Usb ports, join together two drives simultaneously.

Cons -

No Sd card slot, which is ready on some of its competitors units in this range.

Cannot play Flv (Flash Media Files)

Reports of, no audio on some files.

Does the Wd Tv Hd Media Player earn the prize for the extreme electronics tool when talking about playing removable media at an affordable price?

I think for the money you unmistakably can't go past these types of Media Players, without splashing out a lot more money for the built in Hard Drive versions, if you already own an External Hard Drive or removable Media that's all you need, I might add, the bodily size of your Hard Drive makes no difference, there is no size limit!

Western Digital Wd Tv Hd 1080p Media Player, has made accessing digital files on an alternate media, easier than ever before.There is however one turn I would Definately make to this media player, is its long winded name, I mean Sheesh talk about being precise why not simply call it the "ultradocious" & give me a 5% kick-back! Now that's innovation!

Western Digital Hd Tv Media Player

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