Western Digital launches WD TV Media Player

Western Digital launches WD TV Media Player

Western Digital has announced the launch of their own media player product named WD TV Media Player.

This player is the latest challenger to Apple TV which has set the standards for this segment of the market.

This new player from Western Digital is priced at an affordable $129.99.

This device is designed to support a variety of audio, photo, and video files. Customers can connect to it any form of USB mass storage device.

It comes with a remote control and the device can be connected to a television set via HDMI or standard composite AV cables.

WD said in a statement on this new device launch: “Users leave the WD TV HD Media Player connected to their TVs and simply plug in up to two My Passport USB drives or other USB mass storage devices loaded with HD media. Using the included remote control, they can navigate and play their content with the media player’s high-definition on-screen menu. With My Passport drives now available in 500GB capacities, users can build large collections on multiple drives, all playable by WD TV.”

supported formats:

Video: MPEG1/2/4, WMV9, AVI (MPEG4, Xvid, AVC), H.264, MKV, MOV (MPEG4, H.264), Subtitle SRT (UTF-8)

Photo: JPEG, GIF, TIF/TIFF, BMP, PNG

Audio: MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV/PCM/LPCM, AAC, FLAC, Dolby Digital, AIF/AIFF, MKA Playlist PLS, M3U, WPL