This is the western Digital Live (or live plus). Its a little set top media player. I really wanted the Patriot Box Office. The white papers I've read only the Patriot Box Office can play pretty much anything. I don't want to deal with codecs or other random bullshit. I also Hope that my WDTV Live will be able to play files right from a samba share. I don't want to install any media streamers, codec strippers or any other bullshit. I have a linux box hooked up to an external esata raid 5 box. Samba is in full share mode so there should be no problems. I also want something that can play most codecs. avi, mpg, divx, iso, all the shit that I'm going to come accross when I download stuff.
I'll be damned if I'm going to install converters on my raidbox so I can watch the latest episode of trueblood. come on homos. All the reviews on tiger (33 of them) were good. There were a few people who gave it a 2 or a 3 but they sounded stupid. I think I'll have better sucess with this for these reasons.
1. No wireless, sure it supports it. but wtf. wireless G is slower then my gigabit lan. sure I could go N, but fuck that. I have boxes of cat 6 and my place is small
2. I can update my firmware. I'm also not retarded, the people who briked there first generation boxes because they did a web update deserv it. Hell I feel bad updating wii's, ps3 and xboxes. I update bios firmware via cds. I dont even use USB.
3. Hacked firmware - WDLXTV I love to hack stuff. If I had a ps3 I would install Ubuntu (or Centos, yellow dog is for fags).
6. I'll take it back if the fucker doesnt work. I have shirts with collars on them. I'm comming on 30. I'll just play dum and bitch.
I just ordered Mel's folks the Patriot box a month back & they absolutely love it. Can't wait to see how the WDTV works out for ya.
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WDTV has worked out well so far. I did the web update and it's fine. It plays everything. There was an issue playing but then vlc tried to play it and it wanted to be repaired. Bad download I think.
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