Comments on my new WD TV Live Plus

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live & Live Plus
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I just got my Live Plus this week.  This is the 3rd “media center” device I’ve owned and so far it is the best.

First I had a D-Link DSM-520, which output 1080i (nice), but was horribly buggy and unstable.  Members of the forum were screaming for a firmware upgrade, but D-Link wouldn’t deliver.

Second I used a Wii.  Very stable and reliable.  Biggest disadvantage was 480i output.  Trick modes were kind of klunky with a Wii remote, but the ability to drag the little ball in the play bar to any point in the video was really nice.

Now the WD Live Plus.  1080p (awesome), 4 speeds fast-forward and rewind, awesome Netflix app.  Mostly a very positive experience except for the following comments:

  1. The 10-minute skip forward/back function seems to only work when playing video from a network share (I didn’t attach a drive directly to the box - it would probably work with that too).  It doesn’t work in Netflix, and doesn’t work through PlayOn.

  2. Trick modes are unstable in PlayOn.  It seems to play OK if you just let it play, but try to fast-forward and it just ‘kicks you out’ of the video and doesn’t remember your resume point.

  3. I hope WD will offer some of the additional services PlayOn offers natively (especially Hulu), so the PlayOn issues are less of a concern.

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Your request for Hulu is best placed on in the Ideas Exchange section. This way someone from WD will be sure to see it and will allow more users to support your idea.

However, I would first search and make sure that there are no other active Feature Requests suggesting the same or similar improvements. If there is, then you could add your post and vote on it.

Live & Live Plus Ideas