Western Digital TV Live Hub

[Davie_GLA]

Evening all,

Anyone using one of these for network storage / media purposes and can comment on functionality?

Reviews on the net seem positive.

David.

[thehawk]

OK, but only 1TB. I just bought the WD TV Live and use that to connect to my NAS or plug in external hard drives.

[halfpenny43]

What TheHawk says.

Nice boxes (my wife works for WD and got one for free) but absolutely need to plug it into a NAS.

[Scottish Exile]

Been using the WD Mybookworld 1Tb for a year, with no problems. Great as I have 3 different PC's/Laptops so it keeps everything in one place.

Picked up a WD Live TV last week on eBay and have been having fun all week viewing Photos from the Bookworld on a 50 inch plasma tv.A whole new dimesion to viewing photos. Not really a film fan so can't comment on streaming films etc through it, but it's on a list of projects to get round to one day.

[EINSIGN]

Brilliant bit of kit, really pleased with the sound and picture quality. I also had the live unit without storage but the hub is much better. Had mine for a couple of months now. 1TB is more than enough storage and if that runs out just connect any USB or NAS device to increase. I can now access all movies, music, picture etc from any room, tv or PC.

[Davie_GLA]

I didn't realise I could sput another drive onto it. I have a 500gb one with all my photos / music etc.

Just to be clear; it's this one i'm looking at:

http://www.dixons.co.uk/gbuk/western-digital-tv-li...

Not the cheapest outlet but it's just for reference - is this the one you are using and i can stick another drive into it?

David.

[EINSIGN]

Davie_GLA said:

I didn't realise I could sput another drive onto it. I have a 500gb one with all my photos / music etc.

Just to be clear; it's this one i'm looking at:

http://www.dixons.co.uk/gbuk/western-digital-tv-li...

Not the cheapest outlet but it's just for reference - is this the one you are using and i can stick another drive into it?

David.

Yes and yes.. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00466IEXE/ref=...

[Davie_GLA]

Done deal then.

Thanks for your help.

[BERGS2]

EINSIGN said:

Brilliant bit of kit, really pleased with the sound and picture quality. I also had the live unit without storage but the hub is much better. Had mine for a couple of months now. 1TB is more than enough storage and if that runs out just connect any USB or NAS device to increase. I can now access all movies, music, picture etc from any room, tv or PC.

I must have a duff one then - or not set it up right -

I'd appreciate some advice - as my experience of network media players (this is my third) is consistantly poor & i can't gauge specifically which is the 'weakest link' part of the set up causeing the issues....

I have:

Netgear router DG834
Macbook
WDTV Live hub 1TB (via ethernet)
Samsung Wireless bluray (has a dongle for seeing things on the network)
Netgear Digital Entertainer Live (EVA 2000) -

issues I have had with the WD:

seems to need to spend hours 'compiling media library' on start up - this make the UI like a five year old Laptop - s-l-o-w...

'Mobile remote' is just the web page of the interfact with the remote control on it - very fiddly and doesn't always work.

The ability to add or remove files is affected by the speed

Wouldn't play an M4V file that i'd ripped from DVD yesterday


'Shared devices' whether the macbook of bluray seem to sporadically hook up then disappear

potential reasons -

The router i have is 'wireless g' so not too speedy - though this shouldn't affect the WD as this is hard wired...

I dumped (via the network sync feature) a couple of gig of photos in the root drive - each time it boots it seems to try to create thumbs for these and frustratingly this mean their removal is difficult..

I had hoped that a simple plug and play network drive would be on the market by now, but the dream still seems a way away for now.....

If anyone can offer advice on how to get this setup working I would be most grateful