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Western Digital debuts HD TV add-on

Anonymous Coward

Connectivity? 

Posted Monday 3rd November 2008 14:26 GMT

Does anyone know where you can find a spec sheet for this device? Wanting to know what connections it has, specifically for audio (optical/coax)

Can't find anything on the WD site....certainally are keeping this one quiet!!

Anonymous Coward

ISO files? 

Posted Monday 3rd November 2008 16:19 GMT

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Does anyone know if this drive will be able to run ISO images of DVDs stored on a HD?

Anonymous Coward

specs and limitations 

Posted Tuesday 4th November 2008 08:29 GMT

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Here are some published specs.... not USB2 is often considered insufficient for "serious" HD playback

http://www.buy.com/prod/wd-tv-hd-media-player-usb-2-0-hdmi-composite-a-v/q/loc/101/209975073.html

Scott Mckenzie

Netgear EVA8000 

Posted Tuesday 4th November 2008 11:43 GMT

Given the recent price reduction of the Netgear and the better Beta firmware, i'd go with one of those personally (well i already have one and am waiting for the EVA9000) It'll upscale to 1080p and only really fails with full 1080p HD rips (rare) and occasionally with DTS audio, other than that it's better than any of the other ones i've tried!!!

http://theregister.pgpartner.co.uk/search_getprod.php/masterid=35917302

michael mackey

No 5.1 support 

Posted Tuesday 4th November 2008 16:21 GMT

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"AAC/Dolby Digital decodes in 2 channel output only"

Suppose you get what you pay for ... Back to getting the Popcorn A110 from Santa

Albert

A review of it here. actually probably more of a first look 

Posted Thursday 6th November 2008 10:10 GMT

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This is not mine - just found it trawling for info.

http://maddhat.com/?p=31

I am planning to get one.

Network connectivity would be nice, but for me not a big issue.

I don't do a lot of downloading of movies, so when I rip my DVDs I'll just rip them to an external drive which will be plugged into this device.

All done and happy.