![]() Not to mention that few of them have wowed us with regards quality.Īnother option is to get a Media Center PC that not only plays all your media but can store it and even be used as a PVR. Other devices use a network connection to stream your multimedia so require a certain degree of potentially confusing setup and also require your remote storage device to be constantly on. However, while we’ve come across all sorts of variations on the ‘getting my multimedia stored on my computer to play on my living room TV’ theme, this is the first that has taken such a simple and effective approach. You control it using a little remote control and it has some simple onscreen menus to let you navigate your way round your media. portable hard drives, or USB thumb drives). ![]() ![]() It’s a little black box that plugs into your TV and can be used to play audio and video, or view images straight from your USB storage devices (i.e. The Western Digital WD TV HD Media Player (to give it it’s full title), then, couldn’t be a simpler device. So over the next couple of pages I’m going to explain exactly why many of you should be adding this little box to your Christmas wish list. A couple of weeks later and not only do we have one to review but you can already buy them in the shops. Not only was it surprising to have a hard drive manufacturer release a multimedia playback device but it was even more surprising to see that it was actually a very good one. While attending a seemingly innocuous product launch event towards the tail end of October, out of the blue the world’s second largest hard drive manufacturer, Western Digital, announced and demonstrated its WD TV and in doing so, brought the room to a standstill. Not so with the product I’m looking at today. There are exceptions, like when we all first actually used an iPhone and saw quite how stunning an interface it employs but more often than not we know what’s coming. While we see a fair number of outstanding products grace the pages of our site, most of them have been talked about so much prior to us actually seeing them that there’s little left to surprise us.
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