Media Player

[Bill V WA7NWP]

I picked up the Western Digital HD Live media player at Frys on the
way home form Puyallup.   This was in place of the Netgear EVA2000 I
found at the local Radio Shack store last week...

  http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=735

or at Amazon

  <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002KKFP9Y?ie=UTF8&tag=vodallcom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789>

(Did I get that 'click here to buy and buy Bill a beer' link right?)

So far - experience with the player hasn't been perfect but it's
certainly promising.

I started out with a single USB drive.  It found the movies and music
and played 'almost' everything.   No audio on some of the movies and
one show was jerky.

As usual, it's not a fair test drive unless the latest firmware is
used.   Tonight I hooked up the LAN and presto - it greeted me with
"new firmware available."    It came with 1.0.1.11 and updated to
1.0.1.17.   When I came back I found it was once again ready to update
- now from .17 to the latest version 1.0.1.24.   I'll see how that
works now.  So far the features, support and operation have been
nothing but promising.   It's a FB little box...

Oh - I hadn't really been looking for all the network functionality
but it's there...  You Tube or logging in to existing network
shares...   Cool!

73
Bill - WA7NWP