![]() ![]() The new WD TV Live Hub also supports Netflix and Blockbuster, although they don’t show up in the menus on Australian models. You might also come across the WD TV Live Plus, which I don’t think was officially released in Australia because its support for the online Netflix and Blockbuster movie rental services is useless in Australia. If you don’t need the internal hard drive it’s worth looking at the cheaper hard drive-less WD TV Live. Once you’ve got files on the Live Hub’s internal drive, you can use it as a DLNA server (Twonky Media Server) or iTunes server for streaming content to other devices around your home. Now you can treat it like a local drive and even automatically sync content to it across your network. The WD TV Live Hub is a network drive, accessible from any computer on your network, but you can use the supplied software to map the Live Hub as a drive on your computer and allocate it a drive letter. There’s no built-in wifi but if you can’t run Ethernet cables to your lounge room you can buy a USB wifi adaptor or using a PowerLine adaptor to run Ethernet via your electrical wiring. Unfortunately you can’t attach it to your computer as a USB storage device and copy files across that way. The Live Hub features a built-in 1TB hard drive, to which you can copy files from a USB storage device (there are two USB2.0 ports, one at the front and another at the rear) or via Gigabit Ethernet (an upgrade from standard 10/100 Ethernet in the old WD TV Live). You can also use the new Windows 7 Play To features to stream video straight to the WD TV Live Hub. It seems Western Digital has dropped support for NFS (Linux) shares, which is going to annoy some people (I'm told it's coming in a future firmware update). Forget one-trick ponies like the Apple TV, the WD TV Live Hub will play just about any audio, video or image file you throw at it - either from the internal drive, attached USB storage or across your home network via DLNA or Samba (Windows) shares (the workgroup is set to WORKGROUP by default, you might need to change it to MSHOME). Following on from the impressive $199 WD TV Live, Western Digital has now released the $299 WD TV Live Hub with a built-in hard drive. If you’re after the Swiss army knife of media players, it’s pretty hard to go past the offerings from Western Digital. WD’s awesome media players just keep getting better. ![]()
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