New Media Player

Decided to finally sort out my media playback situation. For quite a while I've relied on lugging my heavy PC into the living room, to hook up to the big plasma for my 24, Lost, Dexter etc, fix. Which was starting to get a little tedious.

Always considered getting a dedicated media player, but there's usually always something stopping me, like no MKV support, No Blu-ray support, or no full 1080p decoding etc.. Enter the Western Digital HD TV device!



Theres quite a buzz on the web about this device, as it supports pretty much every format there is! MKV, H.264, Blu ray, all audio formats too, and its done in such a small quiet cheap box. They are actively updating the firmware and have actually fixed niggles people complained about! The only annoying single drawback is no network. It uses USB, but I plan on getting a USB supported NAS at some point.

Unfortunately, just as I sat down on Saturday for a marathon of 24 episodes, the remote died! Gah, I was gutted! Tried 3 sets of batteries, fiddled with it for ages, looked at the IR LED in a variety of cameras. Nothing. Dead as a doornail.

Fortunately the good people of Western Digital are dispatching me a new one in the post, so hopefully I should have that soon. Quite pleased they were soo nice on the phone.