![]() WD TV Live is a typical consumer electronic gadget package: The unit itself,Ī small remote control with batteries included, analog composite outputĬables, and a wall-wart AC/DC adapter. Third variant of the WD TV Live comes in a small retail box. Long associated with hard disk drives, is a case in point. Many of these brands have never ventured into consumer homeĮntertainment before, but as we race headlong to an all-digital world, computersĪnd entertainment technologies are rapidly merging. Of brands - Asus, Apple, D-link, Vewsonic, Sony, Logitech, and Denon, to The more video-oriented media players are offered by a large range and number The Squeezebox, version 3 of which was reviewed here some years ago. A fairly early, highly quality, audio-only streaming media player was The first ones were audio only, but quickly expanded to videoĪs well. ![]() Players like the WD TV Live in this review.ĭigital media receiver or player is another term used to describe devices like Video/MP3 players, computer tablets, laptop and desktop PCs, and streaming media HD personal video recorders (PVRs) from subscription TV companies (both cableĪnd DSL-based), but a huge range of multi-media devices - smart phones, (Or, if mainstream media is to be believed, the springĢ011 wedding extravaganza and whirlwind Canadian tour of British royals.)Īmong the modern media devices competing for consumer dollars are not only Except in the case of mega sports events like the Super Bowl or Huddled around their TV sets for a synchronized mind-feed of the nation’s most Networks has taken a huge bite out of the old paradigm of a 100 million people Service providers like Netflix (which people nowadays often use in tandem with VPNs to unlock even more content) and the near-universal rise of home computer Web downloads of shows with all the commercials neatly excised, online media Time shifting made possible by auto-scheduled recordings on PVRs, high definition Of gathering at some prescribed time to view a particular program seems quaint. Television has changed so dramatically in the 21st century that the notion The new WD TV Live is barely the size of a mobile USB drive and costs only a C-note, yet can stream 1080p24 video from any local or networked storage via gigabit LAN or wireless-N, access 20 online media services, and work as a music jukebox or a photo/slide viewer.
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