Wow, what a terrible piece of hardware. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. PURCHASE THE GEN1/GEN2 WD TV LIVE, NOT THIS DEVICE. ITS NOT THE SAME! It’s like western digital made a good product that was pretty much perfect for the cost, and they decide to dumb it down, remove features, make it full with ‘apps’ which are basically just advertisements for third party services and companies all the while making it so laggy its unbelievable. Barely any of my .mkv files play No external sub file support. (.sub or .itx or whatever) Problems with MANY of the codecs that were working with the WD TV LIVE, these demuxers/codecs dont work anymore (several) Ridiculously slow UI, lag from **bleep**. No network share support, only DLNA that barely works. No linux/custom firmware support. Wow, usually when a company brings out a NEW product they take all the features of their old one and add more new features to keep up with the advance in technology. Western Digital devolved back to the stone age with this player, they did something amazingly right with the Live/Live Plus and now they botch it up with a cheap arm processor and a product that doesn’t work even half as good as its predecessor. I’m so cheesed I ACTUALLY signed up for the board to get the word out so nobody else makes the same mistake.
kingchoc >>>> Wow, usually when a company brings out a NEW product they take all the features of their old one and add more new features to keep up with the advance in technology.
How did you come up with this horse hooey? (Thanks to Tony for the new “words of the day”!)
More often than not, a company makes their best-shot-at-it-product, and if it catches on ,(ex. iPad, WD Live) they make a lesser-cost model with less bells and whistles (ex. iPad Mini, WD Play) and sell it for less (hopefully) to more people who “want less”. – meaning less price and less features.
And don’t get confused that, although the WD Play is a newer product, it is not an UPGRADED product. New and improved are not always the same thing as the laundry detergent marketers lead us to believe. When the WD Live Streaming gets a facelift, the new one will be an upgrade, not less (as the Play is). It also will cost more that the Play.
kingchoc wrote:
I’m so cheesed I ACTUALLY signed up for the board to get the word out so nobody else makes the same mistake.
So how many postings of your whining are to be expected. Or is two enough already?
Yep, and if our new poster had come to this forum BEFORE he bought his WD Play and just read some of the posts in the Play forum, he would have read plenty of messages regarding the pros and cons of the Play, and he could have avoided his unhappy purchase. (Many people have, and decided on a better WD player. He wouldn’t even have needed to sign up to do this.)
@kingchoc: Take it back for a refund if you can, and go buy the better media player. Don’t blame WD for making a crummy product just because you did not do your homework before you made a purchase. There’s nothing “wrong” with a Play except that it is not a WD Live or a Hub!
It didn’t meet his expectations. He tried to cut a corner and it didn’t pay off. Some people can’t deal with low-end electronics in thinking that it will meet or exceed their more expensive counterparts.
I, however, LOVE cheap and it frustrates my technophile friend to no end. I bought the Play for my parents and I will eventually buy one for myself. It’s just that I’m having internal struggles because the Apple TV was a gift. *sigh*
