Western Digital’s Indian unit has launched WD TV Live HD Media Player with streaming capability and full HD resolution support. The WD TV series is similar to Amkette’s recently unveiled Flash TV but think it as far more superior. Watching multimedia content on the new WD TV Live is easy. Attach a USB HDD or a flash drive loaded with the content or stream it from your computer via the integrated Ethernet or Wi-Fi port. Users can also stream content from online sites like YouTube, Flickr and Pandora.
The wide variety of format support includes:
Video – AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG1/2/4), MPG/MPEG, VOB, MKV (h.264, x.264, AVC, MPEG1/2/4, VC-1), TS/TP/M2T (MPEG1/2/4, AVC, VC-1), MP4/MOV (MPEG4, h.264), M2TS, WMV9
Photo – JPEG, GIF, TIF/TIFF, BMP, PNG
Audio – MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, AIF/AIFF, OGG, Dolby Digital, DTS
The WD TV Live Media Player sells for Rs. 10,500 and comes with a 1-year warranty.
This seems pretty nice, but really Rs10,500?? That is insanely expensive. Ill buy a netbook instead. Infact, i just checked, you can get Amkette’s Flash TV is for around 2500.
Is this really worth it?!
Yes it’s expensive but you get HDMI, wireless playback, full HD and more codec support than Flash TV. I would say different users different needs.
I believe in high-quality, but for all the good stuff that it allows you to play, with a one-chip solution inside, it should not cost more than something like Rs. 6000/ or so. After all, you need to bring in your own USB HDD or flash drive in any case. Hope the price will come down soon. I believe it is more expensive than the USA due to the custom duties and taxes. Cheers to the product anyways, we were all waiting for these new codecs and features to play.