Western Digital Elements Play 1TB Multimedia HDMI Drive - 1080P: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories

Product Information

Technical Details

Brand	Western Digital
Item Weight	1 Kg
Product Dimensions	22.5 x 14.9 x 4.1 cm
Item model number	WDBACC0010HBK-UESN
Hard Drive Size	1000 GB

Additional Information

ASIN	B003WE8RW4
Best Sellers Rank	25,582 in Computers & Accessories (See top 100) #96 in Electronics > Hi-Fi & Home Audio > Media Streaming Devices > Streaming Clients
Shipping Weight	1.7 Kg
Date First Available	2 Sep 2010

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Product Description

An HD media player with built-in high capacity hard drive.

Store your media collection and play it on your HDTV.

A media player with built-in hard drive designed for value-conscious movie buffs who want to store and play their media collection in full-HD 1080p on their TV.

The WD Elements Play multimedia drive is an easy, affordable way to supersize your movies and photos on your big-screen TV and play your music collection on your home entertainment centre. Save your media collection on the multimedia drive, then simply connect the drive to your TV and you’re ready to enjoy all your digital media in Full-HD 1080p resolution.

Full-HD 1080p Resolution

Experience spectacular Full-HD video picture quality. The HDMI port lets you connect to the highest quality HDTV or home theater.

HDMI Connection

With just one cable you can connect your TV to a world of content without compression. The HDMI out slot allows you to import all kinds of media at full resolution, including pictures and home movies from your PCs. Now enjoying it all on a widescreen HD TV couldn't be easier.

With Full-HD 1080p resolution, enjoy every high-res detail of movies and photos.

Plenty of Room for Your Media Collection

The built-in high capacity hard drive offers room for tons of media. If you need more space, plug USB drives into the available ports.

Supports a Wide Variety of File Formats

Most popular formats are supported including RMVB, H264, and MKV.

Camera Compatible

Connect your digital camera or camcorder and play or transfer content from your camera to the drive.

Automatic Play

Set the player to play a selected media file automatically when the unit is turned on. Perfect for living art on your HD TV or for digital signage.

Easy, Intuitive User Interface

Simple, intuitive and beautiful, the user interface provides the following navigation options:

Play a wide variety of file formats, including RMVB, H264, and MKV.

DVD navigation with complete menu navigation, chapter listings, special features, and subtitles
Photo slideshow with unique transitions and music on your HDTV
Supports photo thumbnails, video cover art and music album art
Music playlist support for PLS, M3U, WPL file types
Preview your video during navigation
Multi-language subtitle support for video playback

Composite Video Connection

Composite (RCA) outputs ensure compatibility with virtually all television sets.

Digital Optical Audio

High fidelity audio or pass-through digital audio signal to your AV receiver for surround sound experience. Supports SPDIF and Dolby Digital native playback.

Manufacturer's Description

An HD media player with built-in high capacity hard drive.

Store your media collection and play it on your HDTV.

A media player with built-in hard drive designed for value-conscious movie buffs who want to store and play their media collection in full-HD 1080p on their TV.

Full-HD 1080p Resolution

Experience spectacular Full-HD video picture quality. The HDMI port lets you connect to the highest quality HDTV or home theater.

HDMI Connection

With Full-HD 1080p resolution, enjoy every high-res detail of movies and photos.

Plenty of Room for Your Media Collection

The built-in high capacity hard drive offers room for tons of media. If you need more space, plug USB drives into the available ports.

Supports a Wide Variety of File Formats

Most popular formats are supported including RMVB, H264, and MKV.

Camera Compatible

Connect your digital camera or camcorder and play or transfer content from your camera to the drive.

Automatic Play

Set the player to play a selected media file automatically when the unit is turned on. Perfect for living art on your HD TV or for digital signage.

Easy, Intuitive User Interface

Simple, intuitive and beautiful, the user interface provides the following navigation options:

Play a wide variety of file formats, including RMVB, H264, and MKV.

DVD navigation with complete menu navigation, chapter listings, special features, and subtitles
Photo slideshow with unique transitions and music on your HDTV
Supports photo thumbnails, video cover art and music album art
Music playlist support for PLS, M3U, WPL file types
Preview your video during navigation
Multi-language subtitle support for video playback

Composite Video Connection

Composite (RCA) outputs ensure compatibility with virtually all television sets.

Digital Optical Audio

High fidelity audio or pass-through digital audio signal to your AV receiver for surround sound experience. Supports SPDIF and Dolby Digital native playback.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Good at what it does 27 Feb 2011

By Bill Shakespeare VINE™ VOICE

Size Name:2TB|Amazon Verified Purchase

This is Western Digital's no frills media player with built in hard drive. Out of the box I discovered this needed firmware updating from the website because it wouldn't automatically identify or remember HDMI settings after powering off and I was using this with an HDMI cable. It seemed to default to AV composite output regardless. Firmware fixed this of course and it now works great. Quality of the playback of files is good, assuming the quality of your files is good naturally. As mentioned in one of the other reviews, it's best to use folders and sub folders with your media as it will make managing everything easier. For example have a Movie folder and then sub category folders by genre.

I'm very pleased with this device because 2TB is a lot of storage space if you have lots of DivX,xvid or any other MPEG4 variant files, all in a one solution box that plugs into a TV and lets you play them. The remote is small but functional and I quite like it. So yes I would recommend this device which is fairly simple to operate. Just be aware that you may have to update firmware, which means downloading the firmware from the website, putting it onto a USB stick (or external HDD USB) plugging it into the Elements Play Drive, where it will automatically identify and ask if you want to update. I didn't give a final star for the product because it comes with no AV composite cable or HDMI in the box, just the mains plug and a short USB to connect with a PC.

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A great bit of kit. 18 Nov 2010

By Flickering Ember TOP 500 REVIEWER

Size Name:1TB|Amazon Vine™ Review (What's this?)

As with other reviewers, I received this with only a 2-pin Asian adapter and had to buy a suitable UK plug. I also bought a AmazonBasics 2M Dual-Shielded High Speed HDMI Cable [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging] to link it up to my TV set. I found the process of transferring files onto it as simple as it is with any of my hard drives. For the purposes of getting a full picture of its functionality, I chose a selection of different media formats to use with it and there were no problems with any of them.

The lack of thumbnails was pretty much the only fault I can find with it; I found the process of looking through and searching for content generally rather more frustrating than need be, although I did enjoy making slide shows and viewing my content on a big screen from the comfort of a sofa rather than huddled over a 15 inch laptop screen on my desk.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars A Bit Hit and Miss 16 Sep 2011

By A. Marczak TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE

Size Name:1TB|Amazon Vine™ Review (What's this?)

I've had this for several months, and I have to say that the jury is still out. While it says it can cope with almost every video format under the sun, I have found it struggling with all kinds of video formats that I would expect to work, MOV, M2TS, WMV. That said, when it works it's excellent, the video quality over HDMI is really good, although you'll need your own cables, and the menu format is a bit cool, but a bit strange.

It also shows your pictures, which could be useful for slideshows or background screen savers.

So in short, when it works, it's excellent, but when it doesn't, it's infuriating.

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