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Western Digital WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player WDBABX0000NBK-NESN | 
| Brand: Western Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $115.00
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You Save: $34.99 (23%)
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Seller: wynnphotos
Rating:  72 reviews
Color: Charcoal
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 0
Battery: 2 AAA
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 3.9 x 4.9 x 1.6
MPN: WDBABX0000NBK-NESN
Model: WDBABX0000NBK-NESN
UPC: 071803776454
EAN: 0718037764542
ASIN: B003MVZ60I
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Full-HD video playback and navigation - up to 1080p | | • | Stream Netflix and other online media | | • | Play almost any type of media file | | • | Access media anywhere on your home network | | • | Supports DVD Navigation |
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Product Description
TV Live Plus
Play media from your home network and the Internet on your big screen TV. Plus, enjoy access to your Netflix unlimited membership and other premium content. Don't confine your movies, music, and photos to your small computer screen. Experience them as big as life on your TV in Full-HD 1080p with WD TV Live Plus HD media player.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 72
 A Real Review from a Real Owner June 14, 2010
O. Prusak (New York, NY)
72 out of 79 found this review helpful
I just got the WD TV Live Plus and I have to say that I've finally found the perfect media streamer (for now).
I've had the WD TV Live (not plus version) for about 5 months and it's served me well, streaming up just about every type of movie file that I've ever encountered. When I purchased the non-plus version, the only two features that I really wanted that it was missing was NetFlix support and full DVD menu support.
Yes, I am a bummered that my existing non-plus version can't support NetFlix, but I very well knew that what I purchased it.
Please Note: Most of the non-plus version marketing material says that it doesn't support full DVD menu navigation, but WD just came out with a firmware update that DOES add DVD menu support - Kuddos to WD for listening to their customers and giving them what they want.
Regarding the NetFlix support, the PLUS version has a different chip inside of it that is required for NetFlix support (something about copy protection). The non-plus version does not have the required chip in order to support NetFlix so if you read some rants about WD trying to !@#$% their customers, it's probably non-plus owners who feel cheated that they have to buy a new product to get NetFlix support.
I understand their frustration, but the truth of the matter is that there is nothing WD can do in order to get the non-plus to support NetFlix.
On the other hand, they *have* just added DVD menu support to the non-plus version, so anyone who says that they stop supporting the older products doesn't know what they're talking about.
To the point of the review, the NetFlix supports both queue playing (when you already have stuff added to your play now queue) AND browsing.
This is my first NetFlix player (other than my PC) so I can't really compare it to other NetFlix players. I know the Xbox also supports browsing, but I think that most other stand alone players do not support browsing.
The activation process was surprisingly easy (I just went to the NetFlix site and entered a code the Plus gave me).
Regarding HD content, I'm not 100% sure if the Plus supports this, but last night I was viewing some 30 rock episodes and it looked *really* good, better than viewing a DVD.
When starting to view a NetFlix video, it took about 15-20 seconds from when I clicked on play to when the video started playing. I don't know if this is good or bad. No streaming issues once it started playing. My device is connected directly to my router.
I also played around with the new MediaFly feature. Never heard of it before. Basically it aggregates some audio and video podcasts by topic. I saw some CNN and NPR content which is cool.
Overall I'd say this is the best media streamer ->currently<- on the market.
I emphasize currently as I REALLY wanted to get a POPBOX, which sounds like a better option (at least on paper), but it still isn't out and I got tired of waiting for it to be released.
Lastly, I know I didn't cover other aspects of the PLUS, but other than NetFlix support (and I think MediaFly support) the plus and non-plus devices are identical so go read some non-plus reviews for more info :)
[UPDATE June 21]
A few people correctly mentioned that the DVD menu support for the non plus version isn't officially out yet since it's still in beta.
You can see the entire thread of people who have download the beta version and successfully played DVDs with menus on the non-plus version here:
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A great New Addition To The WD Stable June 14, 2010
Tommy Dee (Orlndo FL)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have a WD Live, but upgraded to get Netflix, the only difference between the live and the live plus is the netflix option, Western Digital are always updating products and firmware, it is no more different than for example Microsoft updating Windows all the time, I had a small problem with my live recently regarding video files, Western Digital Customer Service/Tech Support were 100% both in emailing me and calling me, to resolve the problem, in the end we tried the advance RMA and my replacement was shipped 2 day Air and I did not need to return the original, until I was happy with the replacement, now that is great customer service and for $26.95 you can get the WD extra warrinty when you register the live, giving 3 years warrinty in total, so I say WD is a great Company, has great products and stands behind their customer's
Ultimate Media Streamer June 17, 2010
Paul (SF Bay Area, CA)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
After trying many different media streamers (including among others my XBOX 360, DirecTV receivers, etc.)I think I've finally hit the jackpot. The WD TV Live Plus adds a couple of crucial features that were missing in the WD TV Live: Netflix and Menu support for DVD ISOs. I'm trying to review the product and not the company's practices but I will say that I had purchased a WD TV Live a few weeks ago and I promptly returned it since the lack of DVD Menu Support and Netflix meant that I had to keep my Roku streamer around and rely on a DVD player than just streaming the ripped ISOs.
What I Liked
+ Support for DVD Menus (from ISO)
+ Support for every media format I can throw at it including MKV
+ Fast responsive UI
+ Incredibly easy setup (Literally just plugged it in)
+ Smooth video streaming without a hiccup even from a lowly ReadyNas Duo
+ Subtitles
+ Netflix and Pandora Support
What I Didn't Like
- Very small remote. Hard to use
- Lack of digital audio coax output
- (Included) Dongle required for Component Output
Lives up to expectations... June 23, 2010
jcdagget (New York, NY)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
After having pre-ordered a Popbox, only to cancel after seeing no Netflix app at launch I was very happy when WD TV Live HD Plus launched with Netflix functionality. I have a Blu-Ray player with not Internet connectivity, so this product really filled a gap in my Home Theater.
Netflix was up and running on my TV within 5 minutes of opening the box! It also looked terrfic. The WD TV Live HD Plus in my set-up is connected to wireless router via an ethernet cable. For my streaming media I have an iMac that runs both Snow Leopard and Windows 7 (via bootcamp). The WD TV Live HD Plus recognized the Network Shares immediately while in Snow Leopard (simple sharing of the drives) -- I was able to stream pics, video and music flawlessly. The Windows 7 side wasn't so straightforward -- Microsoft has installed a piece software in a Windows update that prevented the streaming. Once I uninstalled that (see the WD support forums), streaming was a breeze.
While this device doesn't have the slickest of interfaces (sure it is HD), and proably isn't on par with Popbox and Boxee (once they FINALLY launch) -- it does exactly what I needed it to do. Streams everything from my computer and has Netflix watch instantly goodness.
I will test a number of different media servers to see which is most compatible with this device, but I already tested Play On and streamed Hulu content without any issues. Pandora and YouTube set-up easily and work as expected. One can hope that they will build-in additional web apps for this device, but even if they don't...it was well worth the ~$120 dollars spent. It's a practical and very useful little device. One more thing, based on the picture the device looks like it is the size on an external hard dive. It is not, it's far smaller and more compact.
owner of the WD TV Live Plus HD June 29, 2010
A. Rincon (USA)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I bought the WD TV Live Plus last week from Amazon. I'm upgrading from the WD TV HD 1st gen.
I was pretty happy with the WD TV HD, but it was missing two big features i wanted: netflix support and DVD menu support. the Live+ adds both these features, so it was time to upgrade.
My overall assessment:
I love this machine. For $119, you get a lot of functionality. Yes, there are still many features that it would be nice if it supported, but it does deliver on what it promises that it can do.
I have it connected to the network with a slinglink turbo, that can run as high as 85mbps. This setup is working very well so far. I have mainly used it with a 1Tb USB drive connected directly to it.
The Pros:
- Great video and picture quality (same as WDTV gen 1)
- Compared to the old WDTV, the machine is a lot faster. The UI has also been enahnced to make it more useful.
- Netflix support is pretty well integrated.
- DVD menu support also works.
- Getting music, pictures and videos from my Win XP MC machine worked pretty well using the network share.
- I also was able to use Windows Media Player 11 sharing to share to the WDTV. This made it a lot easier to create and play music playlists.
- I haven't had any playback glitches at all, in either local storage or network shares. (i only have a couple of formats, DVD folders, and H.264 (MOV).
- HD videos look great. (didn't try Blu-ray rips).
-small, quiet.
-easy to set up and use.
Cons:
- Picture playlist didn't seem to work. But I didn't try to figure out if I was just doing it wrong or maybe it isn't supported.
- In network shares, your views are limited to folder views. (you can use playlists to get around this problem with music)
- The couple of HD movies I tried on netflix didn't look very good. But I probably didn't get the HD version of the movie since I didn't meet netflix's minimum 5MB download speed limit for HD. The non-HD looked pretty good.
- The DVD navigation could be a little better. You need to go INSIDE the VIDEO_TS folder and press play on the first file there to enable the DVD menu support. I had to read WDTV message boards to figure that out.
Feature requests:
- be smarter about the folder structure to know what is a DVD folder, and show the folder as a playable file, instead of a folder. (to improve ease of use)
- this also applies to doing a search. If the DVD folder files don't have the name of the movie, they won't be found when doing a search. I usually put the DVD folder inside a folder with the movie name (is there another way to do this and have it find the movie when you do a search?)
- an SDK for developers to make apps for it.
- For network shares, have more view options, like being able to view all the pictures found on that shared device. or by date, etc. Similar to what you get from a local dive.
- add a 5 second rewind and 30 second forward remote option.
- a way to filter which folders are listed in the folders view from a network share. I don't want to have to re-arrange the way i organize my pictures in my PC. Some of the folders in the My Pictures folder are not needed for WDTV. I would like to have a way to tell the WDTV to ignore specific folders.
I am recommending this device to friends and family.
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