Comments on: Western Digital does its version of Apple TV

Western Digital has released the WD TV Media Player, a little black box that connects to USB mass storage devices and plays back a wide variety of audio, photo, and video files on your TV.

[robd11]

question: I "backed up" a regular DVD on my hard drive using the "File" option of DVD decrypter. will this thing play that directory? Like my PC does now? If so, does it read it natively or convert it to some other format "optimised" for my TV? Does this thing upconvert SD DVDs? I want to know more!!

[ca128]

Please post a pic of the inputs and outputs of this media player.

[dcarnoy]

More photos and info here:

http://store.digitalriver.com/store/wdus/en_US/DisplayProductDetailsPage/categoryID.13830600

[celticbrewer]

Does this thing have any sort of networking capability? Anything from the internet like the ability to buy/stream media? Netflix? If not, what's the point? Seems my gaming console can do everything this does and a LOT more. Hell, even my cable box/DVR will play media from a usb connection. If this was a $40 device, then I could see the niche; but otherwise, there's much better options.

[albizzia]

No Divx support? It does sound a bit expensive for the features, but it's less than "Apple TV".

I recently bought a DVD player with a USB port that could play all of those formats plus Divx and a few more, could read DVD RW, DVD R, CD R, and CD RW, supported several disk formats, supported USB flash drives and USB MP3 players - all that for $40!

[laheelahee]

what's the name of your DVD player?