I bought the Western Digital WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player
…and I love it. It is definitely worth the money. Plus I’m very glad I bought THAT instead of upgrading our Blu ray player to a WiFi Blu ray player.
I’m impressed also with its ability to play a variety of media formats. This thing even plays native *.mts AVCHD 1920×1080 Full HD movie files straight out of our Canon HF S200.
So after a weekend hiking and shooting video, I no longer need to run the *.mts files through Adobe Premiere to convert them into a friendlier format. Now I can just dump the *.mts files directly to hard drive, and USB that into the WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player
My family greatly appreciates this new freedom to easily browse through years of videos that are all accessible via a big SATA hard drive that’s USB’d into the WD media player.
Of course, the reviews complain about the remote control, and it does stink. We all wish that Western Digital had put another $10 into making that a decent remote and raised the price of the overall product by that $10.
Also, WD does a nice job on adding features to each firmware release.
It does not suffer from the drawback common to most media players that force you to first separately use a PC to access Netflix and move movies into your movie queue.
The WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player has pretty much the widest scope of Netflix functionality available in any media player. You can search for movies fairly quickly, based on genres. So you are not limited to what has been previously placed into your Watch Instantly movie queue
