OT: WD TV HD Media Player

Former user wrote on 6/16/2010, 6:44 AM

I am considering buying one of these for personal as well as business use. The descriptions all say it handles 1080i and 1080p, but it doesn't give bitrates. At times I need to go up to 30mbps or higher for my HD stuff and I need to use this box to evaluate that.

Does anyone know anything about this box and if it can handle higher than your normal BluRay (25mps)?

Thanks,

Dave T2

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Former user wrote on 6/16/2010, 8:06 AM

Thanks. I found it Recertified for $49 so I did order it. I also sent support the question about the max bitrates.

I have been wanting one for a while and this seemed like a good deal.

Thanks again.

Dave T2

musicvid10 wrote on 6/16/2010, 8:58 AM

If it will handle the format, it will take just about any bitrate you throw at it.
If I load 60Mbs .m2t on the attached hard drive, it plays without any problems.
However, it won't accept DV-AVI format. Go figure.

Former user wrote on 6/16/2010, 9:02 AM

Musicvid,

That's what I wanted to hear.

Thanks.

Dave T2

gpsmikey wrote on 6/16/2010, 9:08 AM

I have the WD TV Live player and it works quite well hung off my LAN - it can share files from my systems as well as play files from the portable USB hard drive that can be plugged in. The one downside that I am aware of is that it can't handle playing an ISO of a DVD. Somewhere recently (I thought it was here), there was a discussion of that issue and apparently the Seagate media player can handle ISO files - treats them just like a DVD with chapters, menus etc. I did see somewhere where if you convert the ISO to a MKV format, it could handle it though. Here was one thread, but not the one where I remember the discussion about handling ISO files.
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=707385

mikey