is it faster than WD TV Live in playing content from an external HDD?﻿
2047839
My subjective experience says yes. I gave the WD TV a try to compare it to the multiple WD TV Lives my family has solely for the purpose of playing content from directly attached USB drives. My experience thus far has been completely hassle free which is a vast improvement over the WD TV Live. I was worried when I attached the second USB drive to the WD TV and it didn't appear to be scanning for the content on the drive; I went to Videos just to see what was there and the content was already displayed (note that this drive had already been connected to a WD TV Live previously but it seemed to simply 'work' when I plugged it into the WD TV). My subjective experience says yes. I gave the WD TV a try to compare it to the multiple WD TV Lives my family has solely for the purpose of playing content from directly attached USB drives. My experience thus far has been completely hassle free which is a vast improvement over the WD TV Live. I was worried when I attached the second USB drive to the WD TV and it didn't appear to be scanning for the content on the drive; I went to Videos just to see what was there and the content was already displayed (note that this drive had already been connected to a WD TV Live previously but it seemed... » Read More My subjective experience says yes. I gave the WD TV a try to compare it to the multiple WD TV Lives my family has solely for the purpose of playing content from directly attached USB drives. My experience thus far has been completely hassle free which is a vast improvement over the WD TV Live. I was worried when I attached the second USB drive to the WD TV and it didn't appear to be scanning for the content on the drive; I went to Videos just to see what was there and the content was already displayed (note that this drive had already been connected to a WD TV Live previously but it seemed to simply 'work' when I plugged it into the WD TV). « Show Less
2047840
Its fast and easy to play content from an external HDD with the WD TV Live. I've other issues with it but if this is your purpose to have one: yes, it's a good equipment using a USB 3.0 connection. I did not use no USB 2.0 external HDD, then, for this I can't help you.
1899629
If you are asking about optical media, there is no CD or DVD drive, so you have to get an external one. The hybrid 1TB disk is OK; not as good as a true SSD but it boots pretty fast. Windows Performance Information gives it a disk data transfer rate score of 5.9, and that's the lowest subscore, so that determines the overall 5.9 score for the computer. Not sure if that scoring mechanism is really fair for hybrid drives though.
1442728
You should be able to however I would think external drives or sever would be a lot more efficient.
97944
Yes. The drive works with TV, but will loose signal from file at random intervals while watching a video. This happened to me every time I tried watching a video.
1969631
I would buy a large external drive. The is much faster than standard hard drives
687824
Skipping back and forth doesn't work well over DLNA. My Blu-ray player supports that, but it takes longer to figure out the skip location and advance the video stream than the time of the skip. I'm happier with my WD without DLNA. I do wish it could skip 30 seconds, and I'm going to explore if that is possible with wdlxtv firmware.
183505
Hi C. Nunez, I will play a Japanese movie I just got with SRT file subtitles and I'll let you know the results. The alternative to this media box is a DLNA app on your computer (to play on your big screen) and I don't see advantage of DLNA over this WD box. I used TV MOBILI as a DLNA for months until they wanted money for going over 10 GB. This little box did the trick and even my nine year old son can run it.
268448
I use my Airlink on a WD Live Hub, and I stream HD videos from the YouTube app with no problem. Don't know if I'm getting 1080 or 720 though, but I'm pretty sure it's 1080.
2109860
In youtube there is such a video. A dude connects a flash drive into this and jumps to further velocities compared to 7200 rpm seagate backup plus
687826
I used to use DLNA, but now I ONLY use the network connectivity.If I had an external HD directly connected, it might be more helpful since I think the WDTV has some indexing features when using DLNA, but all my files are now on my NAS.
1765055
I can't say for sure since I returned mine. However I would find it doubtful. Frankly if you are looking to make a "media center" with multiple drives connected I think you will be much happier with a small inexpensive PC connected to your TV than you would with this device. The Homesync is not at all ready for prime time imo. Very clunky and severely limited at this time, compared to what a real media center pc can do (say running XBMC).
466583
my big problem on this item only is i insert my WD external hard drive to watch my movies but it takes forever to read.
884125
Playing time depends on the movie, not the drive. If you mean copying time, that depends on your usb connection.
582864
I assume you're asking whether it's faster than a conventional hard disk drive. The answer is yes, much faster.
658734
Yes, however; it's not a good media player as it cannot play lot of video format well. I would rather get WD TV Live Streaming Media Player. It will play everything you throw at it really well.
1669757
Absolutely.I have movies & HD videos, stored on mine (i've since purchased another).They transfer fast via 3.0, and you can watch them directly from the drive.
942826
Streaming and lag are dependent upon the speed of your internet connection, not the speed of the hard drive. That being said, the hard drive is much faster than any internet connection.