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Western Digital WD TV Live Hub 1 TB Media Center
 
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Western Digital WD TV Live Hub 1 TB Media Center

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Product Specifications
Brand NameWestern Digital
Number of Component OutputsComponent, Composite, HDMI, Optical

Technical Details

  • A high capacity 1 terabyte hard drive and network HD media player in one
  • Play media from USB drives, home network, and the Internet on your TV
  • Beautifully simple user interface for everyone in the family to use
  • Access your Netflix unlimited membership or Blockbuster On Demand and watch movies and TV episodes instantly.
  • Collect your media in one place and stream it anywhere in the house.

Product Details

  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches ; 1.2 pounds
  • Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
  • ASIN: B004GK0GKO
  • Item model number: WDBABZ0010BBK-NESN
  • Batteries: 2 AA batteries required. (included)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (247 customer reviews)
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Product Description

From the Manufacturer

 

Readers' Choice AwardWD TV Live Hub Media Center - Bring your digital life to your big screen.

Whether it's your own videos, music, and photos or Internet entertainment, you can play it all in the comfort of your living room in brilliant high-definition. Put your personal media on the high-capacity built-in hard drive and stream it to any screen in the house.

NEW! Shoot it. Share it.
Entertainment is happening all around you. Capture it. Upload it. Enjoy it on your HDTV with WD Photos, a free photo and video app for your smartphone or tablet.
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Watch the things you love on the screen you love.
Whether it's your own videos, music, and photos or Internet entertainment and games, you can play it all in the comfort of your living room.
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Collect your media in one place. Stream it anywhere in the house.
Download and play your media collection on the built-in hard drive. Stream to any TV or computer on your network.
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Take your entertainment center to a whole new level of cool.
Experience your media in Full-HD 1080p and crystal-clear digital sound. Easily make your entertainment choices using our intuitive navigation menus.
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Features at a glance

  • Network media player with built-in hard drive
  • Centralize your media and play it on any screen
  • Play personal videos, music, and photos
  • Stream movies from Blockbuster on Demand, Netflix, or Hulu Plus
  • Access Internet favorites on your HDTV
  • 1-year limited warranty

An easy-to-use HD media player with a network hard drive built in. Connect it to your HDTV and the Internet. Then download your personal movies, music, and photos and you're ready to enjoy them on the big screen in your living room or anywhere in the house.

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Watch popular movies and TV episodes instantly - Choose from over 10,000 titles from Hulu Plus, CinemaNow, and Blockbuster On Demand, or access your Netflix unlimited membership and watch TV episodes and movies on your big screen.*

*Hulu Plus subscription (US only), CinemaNow account (US only) and Blockbuster online membership (US only) required. Netflix is available in certain countries. Unlimited membership required. More information at www.netflix.com.

Centralize your media collection - Store all your media in one place on the high-capacity drive. Enjoy your home movies, share vacation slideshows, and play your music on the big screen and sound system in your living room.

Access popular Internet content from the comfort of your living room - Play YouTube videos, access Facebook, see your photos on Flickr, play music on Spotify or Pandora, and watch daily video podcasts from CNN, NBC, MTV, ESPN, and other online content.*
*Availability varies by country. Pandora is available in US only. Spotify is available in US, UK, Sweden, Finland, Norway, France, The Netherlands and Spain. These streaming services may be changed, terminated or interrupted at any time.

Access media anywhere on your home network - The Ethernet port lets you connect this media player to your home network so you can access and stream video, photos, and music from any Mac®, PC, and network drive in your house.

Full-HD 1080p video playback - Sit back and enjoy the spectacular picture quality of brilliant high definition video and the crystal-clear sound of digital audio.

It's a multi-room media server streaming to any TV in your house - You can stream any file on the WD TV Live Hub media center to a WD TV Live media player or any DLNA/UPnP compatible TV, Blu-ray Disc player, or game console.

Play almost any type of media file - WD TV Live Hub supports a wide variety of the most popular file formats including HD camcorder video formats. No need to spend time transcoding.

Upload video clips and photos from anywhere - Download WD Photos, a free photo and video app for your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or Android smartphone. Take a photo or video clip with your mobile device and upload it directly to the built-in hard drive on your WD TV Live Hub media center. You can also access all the photos stored on your WD TV Live Hub media center and show them off with your smartphone or tablet. To learn more about WD Photos, click here.

Video camera-ready - Connect your camcorder or digital camera directly to the media center and instantly view or archive HD video and photos without a PC.

Transfer files easily - Copy, move or delete files stored on a USB drive, a network drive, your camcorder, or a camera attached to the media center using the on-screen menus.

Works with USB keyboards - Use the on-screen keyboard, an alphanumeric keypad, or attach your wired or wireless USB keyboard for easy text input. Perfect for searching videos on YouTube or updating your status on Facebook.

WiFi-ready - Supports a wireless network connection to your home network with an optional USB wireless adapter. Or, get the speed you need to stream HD with a WD Livewire powerline AV network kit—it extends your Internet to any room in your home using your electrical outlets.

Ideal for

  • Storing personal videos, music, and photos for playback on your TV
  • Watching movies and TV shows from Hulu Plus, CinemaNow, Blockbuster On Demand, or Netflix
  • Accessing popular Internet sites such as Facebook and YouTube
  • Playing media stored on computers and USB drives connected to your home network
  • Centralizing your digital media collection on your wired or wireless network
  • Playing virtually any media file without transcoding

What's in the box
Media center: media player with built-in hard drive, Remote control with batteries, AC adapter, Quick Install Guide.

Requirements
Standard or high definition television with HDMI or composite video connections. Cables not included. Home network and broadband connectivity for online services.

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Comparison Chart
WD TV Live WD TV Live Hub
Play movies, music, photos and the best of the Internet on your HDTV.
Store and play movies, music, photos and the best of the Internet on your HDTV.
 
Resolution
Full-HD 1080p
Full-HD 1080p
 
Built-in 1TB WD network hard drive
 
 
Built-in media server to stream to multiple rooms
 
 
Built-in Wi-Fi™
 
 
Instantly streams Netflix (US, Canada and Brazil) and other premium content.
 
Downloads movies and TV shows from Hulu Plus, CinemaNow, and Blockbuster On Demand (US only)
 
Online content
Facebook, Pandora, YouTube, Spotify, Shoutcast, Accuweather, Deezer, DailyMotion, Mediafly
Facebook, Pandora, YouTube, Spotify, Shoutcast, Accuweather, Deezer, DailyMotion, Mediafly
 
Connects to your home network
 
Windows 7 Play To Support
 
Supports DVD navigation
 
Supports most popular file formats
 
Plays content from a USB drive
 
Plays content from a network drive
 
DTS support
 
Access two drives simultaneously (drive aggregation) with 2 USB ports
 
HDMI connection
 
Composite video connection
 
Component video connection
 

Product Description

Store your digital media collection, play home network media, watch movies, and access Internet favorites. Enjoy it all on your big screen TV in brilliant high-definition with the WD TV Live Hub media center, a network media player with a built-in high-capacity hard drive.


Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
276 of 283 people found the following review helpful
... master of most March 8, 2011
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I want to begin by saying the 'I like' (but I don't yet fully 'love') WD's TV Live Hub and this earns it 4 (but not 5) stars. And I like it in spite of it lacking a few almost 'must have' features for a device in its class such as some storage redundancy (RAID-1 = disk mirroring) or at least a built-in backup utility or any significant security or, to a lesser extent (I'll explain) built-in Wi-Fi. And I like it even though bugs still exist such as the Hub's occasional failure to maintain/update its 'media library'. And I do like it even though the Hub's supported Web 'services' are few at this time - because some of the 'major' ones are there.

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Note: (9/9/2011 update):

I am upgrading this to 5-stars because since the original writing of my review most of the bugs have been addressed and many important Web services and other features such as 'games' were added.

Because of its versatility, built-in storage, low power consumption and its ability to integrate with everything else the Hub is now the centerpiece (the true hub)of my entertainment center.
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WHY I LIKE IT

Some of the shortcomings duly noted above, I like the Hub because:

The Hub turns out to be a well connected, relatively easy to use and operate, low-power, physically small, versatile video/music/still photos player with the built in ability to store the equivalent of almost 200 DVD-quality movies on its built-in 1TB drive, expandable to many times more than that via an attached USB drive and capable to sync and play content from any accessible media server such as PCs, Xboxes or PS3s, Microsoft Home Servers or NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices.

The Hub can also go out on the Net and report the local weather, play YouTube videos, Netflix, Hulu Plus and Blockbuster movies, Podcasts and Pandora music (I compiled a list of supported Web services below).

I was able to add the TV Live Hub to my Harmony universal remote control setup and I was able to address the lack of built-in backup (running a scheduled Robocopy task off a Home Server) because the Hub's drive can be mapped and managed as any other computer drive through a PC.

The Hub plays content off existing media servers and it acts as a media server for other devices (PCs, PS3s, etc.) on the same network. It can be set to sync with whatever content it can discover on your home network and it supports iTunes (did not test iTunes support myself). And for the hard-core YouTube users, a USB-attached keyboard should allow for easy searching. Also, the Hub makes it easy to post content directly to Facebook and Flickr.

And, finally, the Hub is likely to do more and do it better tomorrow because WD is constantly updating the firmware and hopefully it will address some of the more annoying bugs soon and because there appears to be an active, lively, innovative, helpful and supportive user community. [Note: 2 firmware updates later, several new Web services were added and some bugs were fixed.]

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Here are the hub's features in a more organized format.

MEDIA PLAYER

- Plays videos with full support for HD and multi-channel sound.
- Plays music with support for playlists.
- Plays movies/videos with filters for genre, rating and so on.
- Displays photos, has slideshow capabilities.
- Games section (added on 5/17/2011) has 'mind games' such as Sudoku, puzzles, memory games.

MEDIA HUB

- Acts as a media server for other devices (PCs, PS3s, Xboxes). My PS3 'saw' the Hub and was able to play content off it as soon as it went online.
- Plays content from other media servers on the local network. It saw 'everything' we were sharing as soon as we turned it on.
- Plays content off NAS (Network Attached Storage).
- Syncs with media found on PCs and has support for iTunes.

ONLINE SERVICES

- Services availability is controlled by WD. As far as I know, you can't add or remove a service but that may change in the future.
- Current selection is limited but 'big names' are supported: Netflix, Blockbuster, YouTube, Pandora, Flickr, Facebook, etc.
- Grabs metadata (title, description, cover graphics) for music and movies.
- Firmware is upgraded by WD remotely.

CUSTOMIZATION

- Users can download or create their own themes and backgrounds.
- Integrates with Harmony remotes.
- Several styles of menus.
- Additional storage can be attached directly through USB port(s).
- Supports USB keyboards.
- Supports certain Wi-Fi USB-connected devices (not tested by me).

SPECS

- I/O ports: Optical, HDMI, Composite, RCA, 2 USB, gigabit Ethernet
- Video (Full HD 1920x1080): AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG1/2/4), M2TS, MKV (h.264, x.264, AVC, MPEG1/2/4, VC-1), MP4/MOV (MPEG4, h.264), MPG/MPEG, TS/TP/M2T (MPEG1/2/4, AVC, VC-1), VOB, WMV9
- Audio: (multichannel up to 7.1) AAC, AIF/AIFF, Dolby Digital, DTS, FLAC, MKA, MP3, OGG, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA,
- Photo: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIF/TIFF

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MY EXPERIENCE: SETUP

It was as easy as plugging in the unit, connecting to a network hub with an Ethernet cable (not supplied) and to a receiver through an HDMI (not supplied either) cable.

HDMI 1.4 is supported but composite (RCA), and component outputs are also available as well as an S/PDIF digital (optical) output. For best results, 'wired' network connectivity should be preferred. It's the only one supported out of the box and, if you expect to play or stream HD content, it's the only one that can support the load reliably.

Once the box is turned on it quickly updates itself and it's ready to use. Literally 5-10 minutes after powerup we were watching YouTube videos. Of course, additional setup is needed to fully customize it but the Hub can make itself useful quickly and there's no need to rush. Some of the Web services such as Pandora or Netflix require that you have an account but the Hub makes it easy to set yourself up if you don't have one. On the local network, as I mentioned already, the Hub became immediately visible and it was able to see and use the other active media servers running. From a PC it's easy to connect the Hub's drive and upload content. It's also the only way you can back it up.

MY EXPERIENCE: OPERATION

I've been using the hub to store and play DVD and Netflix movies and occasionally music. I've already uploaded several thousand photos, home videos, backed up lots of DVD movies and TV shows and some 700 songs and there's plenty of room for more. Video play off the local disk or from a Microsoft Home server we keep on our network was flawless. I prefer the Hub to PS3 playback because, the Hub lacking big fans, there is no audible 'hum' during playback. Music playing is okay, both off the disk or off Pandora and so are the photo slideshows. Some of the 'radio' and other content services don't look/sound so good but, since I've experience flawless HD playback on Netflix and music on Pandora, I'm blaming 'them' for the low quality.

As far as the other Web services, I don't have major complaints but it's annoying that YouTube recognizes the Hub as something that's attached to a TV and will NOT let you to see anything that's 'big media' produced. Netflix is okay and the latest firmware upgrade brought in the same great interface (Netflix 3.0?) I have on the PS3.

The Hub can make media watching and organizing as easy or as complicated as you are prepared to allow it. It has the ability to consolidate everything it sees on its local storage and on the network around it into a big pile of 'stuff' and the 'media library' will then show you all sci-fi movies you have (an example) regardless of where they are. Or, if you want things arranged in a certain way, you can create your own folders, name them any way you want and navigate to your favorite movies/shows yourself.

From a PC you can easily stream music off the Hub but, because all the movies I keep on it are at the highest resolution, DVD movies streaming can be a little jittery over Wi-Fi and HD doesn't work at all. The Hub works best when playing off its own disk or accessing/serving content over 'fast' wired connections. My home is not wired for Ethernet but I'm using a Western Digital WD Livewire Powerline AV Network Kit to pipe Ethernet over the power lines. It works.

I should also mention that the online manual is VERY well written, very well organized and very helpful. It comes with links to other online resources, including the very active Hub community board where you can find a lot of good advice concerning enhancements and bugs.

BUGS

On 'day one' after uploading some 5000 photos, a message informed me that the Hub was compiling its media library. It was still compiling on 'day two' and it didn't stop until I told the Hub to drop the library and then rebuild it. Rebuilding the library can take 10-15 minutes but it's annoying and I hope that the next firmware update will take care of it. Meanwhile, I learned to be careful as in "don't try to do something else while the media library is being rebuilt" and I only had once similar incident in the past month. I'm not sure whether this was because of the firmware updates or because I'm more 'gentle' when interacting with the Hub.

Another bug seems to be the 'queue'. Read more ›
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81 of 87 people found the following review helpful
By Hank
This is a fantastic product.
Only two simple things need to be done after you have plugged everything in.
Read the manual provided online. It is very informative and explains everything in detail.
Download WD Discovery. Link for it is provided in the online manual.
You can then map the hub as a hard drive and it'll function just like any other hard drive you might have used.
Just drag any content you want into it and you are done.
My dad who isn't technologically savvy has started using it as well which tells you a lot.
It really is that simple to use.
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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful
By Michael
I bought this and am very happy with the "playing movies" off the internal harddrive part of it. The interface is good and pretty easy to get around. The whole box is amazingly small and quiet.
The only issue I've had the last couple days is getting it to see the internet and my computer through the router...and I'm running a cable to the router-I'm not wireless.
I could plug the WD straight into my modem and get netflix fine but when it went through my brand new netgear wpn824N-100NAS router, I couldnt get on or network with my computer. I've tried everything, read every troubleshooting forum on the web...but no joy. The router works for my computer...I get the internet on it just fine, but not on the Live Hub.
Called WD today. after an hour of resetting router,resetting Live Hub, going through networking on my computer--all of which I'd tried already, he finally asked me what router I used. Then said it wasnt compatible with the Live Hub. I'm sort of questioning if it's just an excuse, but going to try a different router tomorrow. Most on the list he sent were actually difficult to find at a bestbuy.
I caution everyone to make sure they have a approved router before attempting this. very frustrating to spend days trying to figure it out.

***UPDATE***after being told by WD that my router wasn't compatible and being told by NetGear that the HUB was at fault...I went and bought a E2000 lynksis router instead. Set it up, plugged Live Hub into router, clicked on Network Setup...Boom! computer see's the hub, Hub see's the internet and Netflix streams flawlessly! After two weeks of heavy frustration, I really enjoy the Live HUB.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
"It could have been something".
I bought this unit and two WD USB hard drives so that I could store all of my media digitally in one spot. For the most part it worked as expected. Read more
Published 6 days ago by Pamela
Here is my take of this great product.
Ok, I have held off writing this for a long time. I have had my WD Live Hub for 15 months now. I have read good reviews and bad reviews but I wanted to wait with my review until I... Read more
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Published 15 days ago by Jason R Francis
Awesome product!
I love this product great it holds tons of pics movies and music. I can watch my netflix on it too. Again Great Product Thx.
Published 15 days ago by J. A. Juarez
too slow
Once I loaded a lot of content, the device was dragging all the time constantly scanning media files! Read more
Published 19 days ago by Khalid Khawaja
Works great
I bought this along with one of the companion wireless streaming media players. This is really the same thing as the less expensive wireless unit except it has a built in disk... Read more
Published 20 days ago by M. Arney
Loving it
Installed quick and easy with the help of the quick set up guide manual.

For wired connections I suggest signing into your PC from the hub. Read more
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Still expecting something more
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Published 1 month ago by Carlos Estrada
Not Apple quality but close
the thing is nearly flawless. It plays almost anything you throw at it. If you have a file in 1080p expect 1080p. Magnificent product and the only one on the market. Read more
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