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It's been a turbulent week or so in the TV business, starting with the news that Panasonic and Sony, once the driving forces of TV manufacturing, are looking to form a joint venture to develop OLED TVs in order to maintain competitiveness with ...
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An intuitive, if slightly flawed, way to access your digital media
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Pros: Easy to use; attractive user interface; good file support; wide range of services
Cons: Lacks mainstream movie content; confuses some file types; lacklustre sound
Western Digital’s experience with networks and files should help it out in the streaming arena.
An intuitive, if slightly flawed, way to access your digital media
Western Digital WDTV
The WDTV offers an intuitive, if slightly flawed, way to access your digital media
Write your own review| Max MP3 data rate | 320 |
| Dimensions (hwd, cm) | 3x12.4x10 |
| Hard disk (GB) | NA |
| Weight (kg) | 0.19 |
| Type | Client |
| Scart in | 0 |
| S-Video in | 0 |
| S-Video out | No |
| Optical digital out | 1 |
| Scart out | 0 |
| Optical digital in | 0 |
| Quicktime | Yes |
| Wireless | Yes |
| WMA | Yes |
| WMV | Yes |
| Network integrated | Yes |
| USB video | 1 |
| Uncompressed audio | Yes |
| USB audio | 1 |
| Tuner | No |
| FLAC | Yes |
| Built-in amp | No |
| Coaxial digital in | 0 |
| Coaxial digital out | 0 |
| AVI | Yes |
| Analogue stereo out | 0 |
| AAC | Yes |
| Analogue stereo in | 0 |
| MP3 | Yes |
| Component in | 0 |
| DVI out | 0 |
| HDMI in | 0 |
| HDMI out | HDMI out |
| Component out | 0 |
| DVI in | 0 |
| DivX | No |
| Composite in | 0 |
| Composite out | 0 |
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The Panasonic DMP-BDT220 is a fine budget player
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Pros: Brilliant detail; impressive upscaling; great sound; lots of online content
Cons: Clunky remote; some motion blur
Panasonic has a history of making brilliant Blu-ray players. Last year’s DMP-BDT210 was an Award-winner, and its top-of-the-range DMP-BDT320 is already the one to beat in 2012.
This budget player is a top-notch performer with great features
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A family-friendly streamer that's easy to use
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Pros: Easy to set up and use; motion-sensitive gaming remote; plenty of free content;
Cons: Local file support could be more straightforward; not much mainstream content
“Hello! Let’s get started.” That’s the first thing you see when you open the Roku 2 XS’s box, and it immediately puts you at ease.
User friendly, great media capabilities and competitively priced – but not much mainstream content
