This looks nice...
Just add a USB disk and you are away... HDMI and optical out, and supports FLAC and AAC...
Western Digital WDTV...
Apparantly going to retail for somewhere around the £80 mark...
Nice one.
We got no UK release on this, so i'm not sure when we'll see it over here.... We'll chase it up!
No probs Clare! Apparantly should be on general release some time this month...
If only someone would make one that looks like hifi....
You could buy a dead primare cd player, rip the insides out, and put the WD inside the case behind the front panel...
fatboyslimfast:You could buy a dead primare cd player, rip the insides out, and put the WD inside the case behind the front panel...
I have considered this - or even something I can fit an airport express, dacmagic and iPhone touch front panel in. Now where's that soldering iron.......?
fatboyslimfast:Just add a USB disk and you are away... HDMI and optical out, and supports FLAC and AAC...
Western Digital WDTV...
Apparantly going to retail for somewhere around the £80 mark...
How do you know what it supports FBSF? It does look a nifty piece of kit though. A couple of issues for me. Obviously you need an external drive - I have one of the WD drives shown in the picture - they are tiny as well. Problem here, they cost extra and they are not that reliable. A 500gb one will cost about £80. Another issue for me is that to add music, films, etc., you have to unplug and transfer data and then plug back in again. I much prefer the concept of the Linksys I'm using. It constantly streams your files without you doing a thing. I got mine for £150 from pc world.
Neat but an odd solution as most of WD's competitors have a one box solution to this. Shame there is no WiFi or ethernet capability.
I'm beginning to think as buyers we're being manipulated to buy 2 or 3 bits of kit where one would do.
welshboy:Shame there is no WiFi or ethernet capability.
Indeed, for NAS users......
Anyone ever get one of these? Any good?
Ordered one from Amazon the other day - hopefully I'll have it by the weekend.
I looked at the Linksys media centre extender as an alternative (PC World are doing them at £110), but my only PC is my laptop and I don't really want to have to fire it up everytime I want to listen to some music. It looks like a good idea if you've got a desktop PC you leave running as a file server, preferably over a hard-wired network, but doesn't really suit my needs.
With the WD player I can just leave it permanently connected to my AV system and hook up a spare hard disk with all my music and a few videos loaded onto it. I'm hoping that the sound quality will be decent enough - using lossless files and the DAC in my Sony amp there's no reason why it shouldn't. If the picture quality's good then I'll probably get a 2nd drive and transfer a few of my favourite DVD's onto it. It even outputs DD 5.1 audio off DVD files straight to the digital out.
Genius. Now where was that bloke who wanted just this very thing......
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