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 little black box may well be the ultimate electronics machine you've been finding for.
In addition to playing your popular movies, you can view images in a collection of dissimilar formats as well as playback audio files, straight through the on screen interface with curious 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 problem here is, if your Dvd player hasn't got the accurate 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, problem here is a grand 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.
* exchange the video file onto an External hard/flash drive, or Sd card and associate 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 problem as with the "Disc Playback Errors" due to the absence of obvious Codecs.
I'm going to try and keep this article as easy as I can, because this subject can get confusing very speedily and frankly the mean person doesn't legitimately 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 mean run of the mill Dvd from down the local video Store, it is created with the appropriate Mpeg4 codec e.g. "Xvid" and can then be played back using any other appropriate 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 linked 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 associate to your Television using whether a appropriate 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 addition 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 linked 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 comprise - 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 cope most of the popular video formats you will encounter on the Internet today, including 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, including 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 comprise - Mp3, Wma, Mpa, M4A, Mp4A, Ogg, Wav/Pcm/Lpcm, Aac, Flac, Dolby Digital, Aif/Aiff, Mka
Other Formats comprise -
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 content couldn't be easier.
The playable formats ready on this unit are more than enough for accessing most popular media including "Mkv" video, which is absent in some other media players in this range.
Full 1080p Hd compatible.
The addition of two Usb ports, associate 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 ultimate electronics machine when talking about playing detachable media at an affordable price?
I think for the money you legitimately 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 detachable 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 any way one turn I would Definately make to this media player, is its long winded name, I mean Sheesh talk about being accurate why not plainly call it the "ultradocious" & give me a 5% kick-back! Now that's innovation!
Western Digital Hd Tv Media Player
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