*Official* WD TV Live Hub Thread - Page 3

Fry's has the WD TV Live Plus for $99 (regular in store price) but you need to keep in mind you are also getting a media server. So the way I look at it you are getting local storage, media player and media server. I believe you can plug in additional storage but if you want to upgrade your media player or server down the road you can't individually.

"Flash Lite is a development technology implemented at the client-side, or user interface layer. Recent changes to ActionScript allow Flash Lite to better integrate with and even compete with device-layer technologies like Java ME and BREW. Flash Lite should not be considered a mobile operating system like Symbian OS, Windows Mobile, iOS (iPhone OS), or Android: it is a technology for developing applications that run on a mobile operating system."

"Flash Lite 1.1 supports Flash 4 ActionScript. Flash Lite 2.0, based on Flash Player 7, supports Flash 7's newer ActionScript 2.0. Both versions also support the World Wide Web Consortium's Standard SVG Tiny, a mobile profile of the consortium's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) recommendation. Unlike SVG, Flash Lite can add audio and interactive elements without the use of other technologies such as JavaScript. As with Flash, Flash Lite is able to read and redraw external XML content. Flash Lite 3 is based on Flash 8, which brings closer the gap between mobile and desktop content by supporting H.264 video standard, as well as On2 VP6 and Sorenson video codecs. It also introduces the support to FLV video content. Flash Lite 4.0 supports ActionScript 3, and will be a browser plugin, not a standalone player.

Flash Lite 3.0 which is based on Flash Player 8 supports FLVs like the ones used on Youtube and Google Video. Flash Lite 2.0 and 2.1 do not have FLV support."(wiki)

Yeah I don't know what good Flash Lite support is unless they implement a web browser.

The UI seems somewhat like Boxee based on the screenshots from the packaging and the photos posted. Any idea what it's running -- something proprietary?

I would wager that the UI and apps (or "Services" as WD is calling them) are what use Flash Lite just like the Tivo Premiere. I'm interested to see if they make an "app store" sort of similar to Roku so that content can be added later. At minimum if it can be hacked there may be some good potential there.

Do we know whether this will support bitstreaming of hd adio?

Some posts here imply "no"; but I do not think that this has been confirmed.

Also, I wonder if it will downconvert hd audio for output to optical spdif?

Overall, looks like a nce machine.

Could you please try HD audio? Files are here:

http://www.demo-world.eu/trailers/hi...n-trailers.php

if you need them.

It's funny that people think Google provides firmware updates for Android phones, when they do absolutely no such thing.

Google updates the core Android OS. Phone manufacturers and / or carriers decide whether or not there are firmware upgrades on your phone. Yes, rooted phones can sometimes run more recent versions of Android than the carrier or phone mfr. provides. Of course, this in no way applies to the question of who will provide updates for the Revue. The answer is: Logitech, a statement I can make with near certainty.

How is this diff from popcorn a110 or acryan with HD installed?

Two questions, if anyone who's found this bad boy is gracious enough to answer:

What are the dimensions (or a close approximation thereof) of the hub?

If your media is properly meta-tagged, can you turn off the viewing of file extensions?

I still own WDTV hd (first generation), and now is plugged to my kid's Hdtv, it is still running without a hitch, connected to a small 500GB passport usb drive.
I gotta tell you, i have a lot respect for this tough tiny box.It went to 3 different continents , i plugged it to Hotel's tv sets ( Thanks to PAL/NTSC)
I spent 0 dollar maintaining/fixing this WD box for more? than 2 or 3 years. I Can't even remember when we got it at first. And i will probably buy another WD product without hesitation.

Read through all the posts in the thread; and I may have missed it, but did anyone confirm if this unit can play Blu-ray & DVD ISO with FULL Menu Support? And if it can passthrough DTS-HD 7.1 & Dolby TrueHD 7.1?

Been waiting on Dune Smart D1 ... want to compare to it.

Thanks!

It won't.

Does it have a web browser and keyboard/mouse compatibility?

If not, boxee box still takes gold from me- I don't mind having an external hooked up to it.

Bingo! Why get excited about his box. It will come out with bugs that may or may not be fixed and when it's just approaching being decent, the next box will be out and support for this one will cease...

Look, it seems nice, good UI, good feature set, but where is the net scraping for cover art, imdb reviews? Should we wait for Boxee?

What are the main differences between this and the WD Live Plus?

For me the biggest difference is it's a media server not just a player.

Some questions:

1) Do you have the ability to play your media clips (photos, songs, videos) one after the other, or will it menu between each clip?

2) Do you have the ability to play your media clips (photos, songs, videos) in random order?

3) Do you have the ability to delete your clips after or while you're viewing/listening?

4) NMT implementation allows you to use your keypad to skip by percentages when playing video clips. IE, press 5 and you go 50% into the file. Can you do that with this?

Thanks so much for the info!!

It appears to be one ATSC tuner short of a six pack.

Come on WD where's the record off air capability to that huge internal drive?

I'd also like to know how well it does with soft-subs - specifically the more advanced options with the ASS subtitle standard - fonts, colors, positioning, etc.

Why is that so funny, if you bought a dell computer with microsoft windows on it well dell doesnt supply the updates its microsoft in other words the software. Im not trying to start anything im just saying it would make sense.

So what chip is this thing using?

I am guessing same chipset as the prev version 8642 Sigma chipset

Don't think so. That chipset doesn't support HDMI 1.4 or GbE.

I am interested in the chipset as well. Has anyone cracked one open yet?

So it is diff chip set from live plus?

It would have to be. The Sigma 8642 is HDMI 1.3, and only 10/100 Ethernet.

http://www.sigmadesigns.com/uploads/...ray8642_br.pdf

I've already answered that.

True. Didn't see that.

I'm looking at other options for me and the Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ Solution looks promising. You can get it for $100 and then get a 1TB Seagate Freeagent Go hard drive for another 100 which attaches to the player for a total of $200. This is a very realistic alternative to the Hub. Has anyone tried this thing out?

What's kind of cool about the FreeAgent is that the hard drive is removable. Might be a good buy. If anything goes wrong with the HD inside the WD Hub, is it possible to replace it? Having a removable drive might prove useful, especially when comparing two products that have virtually identical specifications between them (though I'm not sure about that, have to research more)