From specs, it looks like the Live Hub with respect to the firmware. Hard disk has been replaced by Wi-fi ; I bet the HDMI 1.4 and Gigabit wireless are just marketing gimmicks as usual
[ Edit: Live Hub had GbE too for 11 MBps transfers to the internal HD ]
The pics in the Slickdeals thread show HDMI 1.4 and appear very similar to the WDTV Live Hub's specs.. I would be surprised if it weren't Gigabit (not that Gigabit is going be useful for this device, considering there is no internal hard drive or media server program running)
For those non believers...finally a full size remote props to WD...HDMI 1.4 is confirmed on the box...I tend to run m2ts files and isos...I will follow up with more details later..
Well this is interesting: Take a look at the WD web site for their media players. I was just looking at this last week and it has changed rather quickly to reflect the "new" products.
The previous WD Live is gone completely -- WD had already discontinued it for sale in the US and was for sale outside the US.
The WD Live+ is now also "gone" -- if you click on the WD Latin America link you can find the info for the WD Live+ which has taken the place of the v1 Live as the product for outside the US.
Only the "new" WD Live v2 and the Live Hub are displayed for the US market. The Live v2 already has an October/2011 firmware update available. The firmware version numbers are not matched to the Live Hub the way the Live v1 and Live+ were.
My fear is that this marks the end of firmware updates for the Live v1/Live+.
I think you're right. Engadget just reported on it and states that the new firmware, only available to the Live Hub and new Live, will have new services. Also WD press release linked.
That may only be partially true. There may not be an internal HDD but the USB ports support external HDD. If it is anything like the Live+ then the "new" Live will still have a presence on the network for remote access/management of attached HDD and simple NAS functionality -- you could use it to feed content to another streamer. I would expect that like the Live+, the "new" Live will support GUID partitions which means a user can attach a multi-bay USB JBOD or RAID enclosure for massive local storage that would also be available on the network. Before I went with NAS units, I had a Rosewill 2-bay USB enclosure attached to my Live+ with a pair of 2TB drives formatted as a single GUID volume. Worked perfectly. Loaded and managed the content on that local storage from my PC.
The GigE port will greatly facilitate data transfers to and from attached local storage and beef up the NAS functionality of the "new" Live.
Why couldn't they have picked a unique name for this.
Unless they have upgraded the processor in this new model, which I doubt they have, the GigE is Gig in name only. Total marketing fluff is all it is good for.
I was going to ask the same thing. I never seriously looked at the Hub, which I believe has the same scraping mechanism, but for $100, I'm interested in the new Live if it's got a decent scraper and/or respects local NFO's and artwork.
They've had TrueHD support in Live, Live+ and Hub for a while now.
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