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| Brand | Western Digital |
| Item Weight | 549 g |
| Product Dimensions | 19.8 x 15.4 x 3.2 cm |
| Item model number | WDBACA0010BBK-UESN |
| ASIN | B00466IEXE |
| Best Sellers Rank | 869 in Computers & Accessories (See top 100) |
| Shipping Weight | 1.2 Kg |
| Date First Available | 19 Oct 2010 |
Product Description
Product Description
Watch the Things You Love on the Screen You Love
Get your family and friends together, sit back, and enjoy! Whether it's your own videos, music, and photos or Internet entertainment, you can play it all in the comfort of your living room.
Access Popular Internet Content from the Comfort of Your Living Room
Play YouTube videos, access Facebook, see your photos on Flickr, and watch daily video podcasts from CNN, NBC, MTV, ESPN, and other online content.*
*Availability varies by country. These streaming services may be changed, terminated or interrupted at any time.
Play Almost Any Media File
WD TV Live Hub supports a wide variety of the most popular file formats including HD camcorder video formats. No need to spend time transcoding.
Automatic Play
Select your favourite song, movie or photo slideshow to automatically play when the device is turned on. Perfect for living art on your HDTV or for digital signage.
Collect Your Media in One Place. Stream It Anywhere in the House.
Play All Your Personal Media the Easy Way
Load up the high-capacity drive with all your media to create your own media jukebox. In a few clicks, you can play your home movies, share holiday slideshows, and play your music on the big screen and sound system in your living room.
Access Media Anywhere on Your Home Network
The Ethernet port lets you connect this media player to your home network so you can access and stream video, view photos, and play music from any Mac, PC, and network drive in your house.
It's a Multi-Room Media Server Streaming to Any TV in Your House
You can stream any file on the WD TV Live Hub media centre to a WD TV Live media player or any DLNA/UPnP compatible TV, Blu-ray Disc player, or game console. The system is powerful enough to handle multiple streams so you can stream a movie to your Blu-ray Disc player, while viewing photos on your TV upstairs.
Video Camera-Ready
Connect your camcorder or digital camera directly to the media centre and instantly view or archive HD video and photos without a PC.
Transfer Files Easily
Copy, move or delete files stored on a USB drive, a network drive, your camcorder, or a camera attached to the media centre using the on-screen menus.
Sync New Media
The player automatically synchronises with watched folders so new content from any PC, Mac, or USB storage will be added to the WD TV Live Hub.
Take Your Entertainment Centre to a Whole New Level of Cool
The perfect partner for your HDTV. With Full-HD 1080p playback, animated menus, and a programmable remote, the WD TV Live Hub media centre allows you to experience your media at its best. It's compact, it's customisable, and it's just plain cool.
Programmable Remote
Use the included programmable remote control to make your entertainment choices using our crisp, animated navigation menus. Customise buttons for quick and easy access to your favourite music, photos, videos or menu choices.
Full-HD 1080p Video Playback
This is the real thing; Full-HD 1080p playback. Sit back and enjoy the spectacular picture quality of brilliant high definition video and the crystal-clear sound of digital audio.
Works with USB Keyboards
Use the on-screen keyboard, an alphanumeric keypad, or attach your wired or wireless USB keyboard for easy text input. Perfect for searching videos on YouTube or updating your status on Facebook.
WiFi-Ready
Supports a wireless network connection to your home network with an optional USB wireless adapter. Or, get the speed you need to stream HD with a WD Livewire powerline AV network kit - it extends your Internet to any room in your home using your electrical plug sockets.
HDMI 1.4, Composite Video and Component Video Output
The HDMI port lets you connect to the highest quality HDTV or home theatre. Additional composite (RCA), and component outputs ensure compatibility with virtually all television sets.
SPDIF Digital Output
The optical audio output sends digital signals to your AV receiver for the best surround sound experience.
Ideal for:
- Storing personal videos, music, and photos for playback on your TV
- Accessing popular Internet sites such as Facebook and YouTube
- Playing media stored on computers and USB drives connected to your home network
- Centralising your digital media collection on your wired or wireless network
- Playing virtually any media file without transcoding
Show Off Your Photos with Your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or Android Smartphone
Get quick access to all the photos stored on your WD TV Live Hub media center using your iPad, iPhone, iPhone, iPod touch, or Android smartphone. Your photos are private, safe and secure on your home network drive. No need to spend time and money on an online photo service.
Shoot it & Share it
Entertainment is happening all around you. Now you can capture every moment of it and send it to your HDTV. Take a photo or video clip with your smartphone or tablet and upload it directly to the built-in hard drive on your WD TV Live Hub media center. When you get home, you have new files waiting for you so you can enjoy them on your HDTV.
The WD TV Live Hub media center can provide access for up to 32 phones or tablets. So you can send photos and videos to a friend through their WD TV Live Hub for immediate enjoyment in the comfort of their own living room while you're out and about.
Your Smartphone Just Become Brilliant
Show off your entire photo collection, up to 285,000 photos, without taking up tons of space on your smartphone. Download the free app from the Android Market or the Apple iTunes store and make your phone the centre of attention.
WD Photos is compatible with leading Apple mobile devices and the most popular Android smartphones including, but not limited to, the DROID by Motorola, DROID Incredible by HTC, Nexus One, and the HTC EVO 4G. Photos are automatically optimised for perfect viewing on your mobile device.
Turn Your iPad into the Ultimate Photo Album
Show off every detail of your favourite memories without compromise. When viewing your photos with your iPad, you have access to the highest available resolution - 1024 x 768. WD Photos allows for a large cache size on your iPad, so you can access more of your viewed photos even when you're offline. Display your photos vertically or view them horizontally and turn your iPad into the ultimate photo album.
All Your Photos at Your Fingertips
WD Photos offers a variety of features, including:
- Instantly post photos to Facebook
- Create a slideshow with transitions to create digital art
- Access previously viewed photos even when you are offline
- View your photos all at once or filter them by folder or album
- Search by file name, folder name, or date using the built-in search options
- E-mail a photo to friend
- Assign a photo to a contact
- Add a photo to the Camera Roll
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Customer Reviews
When the product arrived I unboxed it, plugged it into my TV and connected to my wired network. I opened my network on Windows 7 PC and up popped the WDLiveHub on the network. Transferring files is as easy as copy and paste into the network share. The raw data throughput was about 10.5MBytes which equates to the speed of my home network 100Mbps Wired LAN. If only my home network supported Gigabit throughput then I could test the Gig Ethernet adaptor on the device fully.
The product can double up as network storage with DNLA and ITunes server that runs in the background even when the product is turned off. You can access the share whether you are using it or not and handles playing content while streaming to another device perfectly.
I have had this just under a week now however it has handled every file format I have thrown at this so far. The on-line content could be much better however a lot of this is due to UK v US licensing laws. Hopefully when these restrictions are lifted the on-line content will get much better.
The lack of wireless may concern many people as it requires you to have an Ethernet cable to the device. I have looked at a lot of similar products and not many support wireless. There are wireless adaptors that can be bought, however have no experience so can't comment on support or throughput. Making the device wired is well worth the effort though as it will increase data transfer speeds and allows the streaming of full 1080p video.
There are a few little things which I would like improved. I am surprised at some of the negative feedback it has received so far. As media centres and network storage combined goes it is as good as I hoped it would be and am very pleased it.
to try and explain to others who or not familiar with setting up a media player, i will briefly tell you how i set up mine.
1st position the box near tv
2nd attatch the HDMI lead into back of tv and media player,i have mine going into a seperate av amp
3rd you then need to fit an ethernet cable from the back of the media player into your router (unless you want to go wireless )
4th switch on the unit and update the firmware, basically thats it.
i have tried u tube, face book, and the other stations all with no problems.
next is how do you get your media files from your p.c onto the media player,this is what i did which works fine,
1st when you set up ypur details on tv screen via m/player you will get a link via e-mail from WD, go to this link as you need to download a media network tool as this is the software that is needed to pick up your M/P drive on your pc, also there is a pdf manual on this web site as well so well worth a look.
when the tool has been installed,place one end of your ethernet cable into your p.c the other end is still is still in the M/Player your router is not needed for this part.
Now when you go on the p.c the M/P network drive will now be showing in my computer,choose which files you want to add,i.e music,video,photos etc and just drag and drop them on the WD drive,you will now see your files been added,this can take time depending on the size of the files, i have tried avi,mvk,divx with no problems at all, also to rip a dvd from your own collection, just place a dvd movie in your pc drive,open up the disc,dont play it, you will see audio files and TS-files,just drag the TS files and drop them onto the WD drive these will now start to be added to the WDM /Player.
when done,unplug the ethernet cable from your p.c and place back in your router as this is only for live tv etc.
go to sevices on your media player and you will now see them added, select what movie you want to watch,press play and sit back and watch...simple,in all this a brilliant piece of kit, very quiet, plenty of options for hooking up to any t.v,pictures are crisp and also in full hd and dolby,better still through a stand alone amp, i had mine deliverd after about 4 days from ordering from amazon.
hope this bit of information helps anyone who is after a media player, the WD live hub 1 tb, i would definately recommend, good viewing ...
include HDMI cable
include USB cable
include Network cable
have built in wireless capability (you can attach a USB wireless dongle for wireless if you wish)
You can NOT attach your PC to one of the USB ports of the box to transfer files to/from the box. You have to use your network for file transfer (or do so via USB keys). Hopefully, this should clarify as to what you are getting or not getting for your hard earned cash.
I would recommend before you do anything else, upgrade the firmware to the latest revision. A new version was released last month. You will need to read the documentation as to how to do that. Initially, I would use the USB method (download the firmware via your computer, unzip the files and put them on a USB stick) to do so as you will not need to setup the network (even though it is pretty simple to set it up).
Right, lets come to the real functionality of this product. I have mentioned absence of built in wireless capability so lets start with the built in wired 1Gb Ethernet port. Lets face it, it is not a 1Gb port. If it is meant to be, then it does not perform according to specification. I tried to transfer roughly 25GB worth of files to this box via the network connection. Unfortunately, my router is only 100Mb so I attached my laptop (with 1Gb port) directly to the box via a network cable and it said 1Gb network detected. Based on the maximum possible speed and some simple mathematics, it equates to roughly 4 minutes transfer time. It is theoretical maximum so I had expected an actual transfer time of about 5 - 6 minutes. When it took almost an hour, well I was not pleased. This is the speed you would get on a 100Mb connection. After reading some more forums and reviews, it seems others had experienced the same issue and WDC answer was less than convincing (something about it not being a "real" NAS device. Hmm, so why claim it has 1Gb port?). All I can say is, if you have 100+ GB of data, then I would transfer them in batches.
The interface is very simple to use. But then, it needs to be as the documentation is not all that great. There is only a quick setup guide included with the product and you will need to download the full guide from WD website. You just need to "play" with the interface and you will get a hang of most of the features. For not so easy features, you can try the downloaded documentation and/or forums for the answers.
I had read somewhere this Media Player (MP) is capable of playing ISO files. So as a test, I used my DVD burner software to save a couple of my bought DVDs into ISO images. Yes, it played the ISO images but the bottom quarter of the screen was very dark. The next day, I tried to play the same ISOs and it refused to play them (something about the ISOs files not being recognised). By complete fluke, when I was transferring some more files to this directory I noticed it created some BMK files for my ISOs which were not there before. I deleted those files and it played them ok again with the dark patches still in place. I have not yet had the time to find out why those BMK files were there. Since then, I converted the same DVDs into MP4 files and these play almost perfectly. I say almost because during some fast movements, I have noticed some jagged edges on the images. But that is not the MP's fault as other files seem to play ok so I guess it is the fault of my encoding software that converted the DVDs to MP4.
If none of the above is important to you, then I can not fault this device. It has managed to play every file I have thrown at it. Some people had complained about its Media Library not being able to detect newly added files but I have not been seen this problem. Maybe the firmware had fixed the issue. However everytime I have transferred files, the MP was in standby mode. I have not tried to copy any files across when it is "fully" on. If it does not detect the newly added files, you just need to tell it to clear the Media Library and it will rebuild it for you. I have tried this and it does do it.
I have a Sony TV which is DLNA compliant. So rather than connecting this MP to the TV via the HDMI cable, I connected both to my router. This MP acts as a Media Server as well and is therefore capable of streaming media to DLNA compliant devices. I am happy to say it does exactly what it says on the tin. My only initial concern was, the TV was not receiving the full list of files/directories from the MP. But after I left it a for a few seconds, the list was slowly appearing. I did copy a huge number of files across (Digital Camera images, Camcorder footages, MP3s and films) so maybe it takes time for it to build its list if you have a large collection. I only did this as a test because I would normally connect the two via HDMI.
I have not tested all its features but have tested the main one, its ability to play play media and it seems to do it very well. Before buying I did a lot of research and there are quite a few similar devices on the market, but this seemed value for money as most MPs have similar features. It is able to stream video from YouTube as well but I have not had the chance to test it as yet. I don't really watch YouTube videos so probably will never test it.
Another feature it has which i have not tested is the ability to control the MP from a web interface. Personally, I can't really see a real use of it but I am sure it will be useful to someone. Basically, it has a built in web server and if you navigate to it from your computer browser, you see a picture of the remote control. Any buttons you press on that remote control are sent to the MP as if you were pointing the real remote at it.
If it was not for the 1Gb ethernet performance, I would have given it 5 stars.
I should also add that I ordered the MP on Friday afternoon from Amazon and it arrived on Tuesday morning with Standard free delivery. Again, an excellent turnaround from Amazon as usual.
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