Comments on: WD TV Live first impressions

By: Lorne

Lorne — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:05:27 +0000

My WDTV Live has a flashing power light and the WDTV logo on my tv and nothing functions. This is apparently a very common problem for this product and everyone seems to have had the issue either intermittently or permanently. I have GOOGLED this problem and have tried all the available fixes. It is only one year old and was seldom used with a 750 GB HDD……..Lorne

By: guapo

guapo — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:00:41 +0000

thanks for your response Roy, i didn’t think it could be done, but i just had to make sure. what would you recomend for pc-to-tv solutions? and what do you mean if i can get my pc to broadcast it’s screen, would that be part of the pc-to-tv solution.

By: Roy

Roy — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:57:43 +0000

Guapo, that’s not how it works. There are PC-to-TV solutions out there, but this is “merely” a media player. Unless you can get your PC to broadcast it’s screen contents as a compatible stream, I see no way this would work.

By: guapo

guapo — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:26:51 +0000

i am wondering if i can watch live internet using wdtv live, say i use my desktop to watch internet and be able to watch it on my tv using the wdtv live hd. i don’t want to browse the internet using the wdtv live just be able to watch it tru the wdtv live.

By: Daryn St. Pierre

Daryn St. Pierre — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:00:34 +0000

Just following up on this since I realized I’m still subscribed to it. My WDTV has been a dream ever since I got it working. All I do is enable SMB sharing and select my shared folders on all of my Macs and it recognizes them instantly on the network. I stream everything to it. 720p, 1080p with DTS audio, MKV, AVI, anything. Probably one of the best investments I’ve made in terms of electronic equipment and I have tons. If anyone reading this ends up with a bad device, go exchange it for a working one. It’s worth the extra trip.

By: sandra

sandra — Sat, 22 May 2010 17:16:33 +0000

I just bought it on ebay. A lot of functionnalities and a great menu

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:46:27 +0000

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By: Daryn St. Pierre

Daryn St. Pierre — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:13:49 +0000

Holy cow. I did that and it works perfectly now. Man, I owe you a beer. I was ready to forcefully introduce my head to my desk

By: Roy

Roy — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:04:05 +0000

That too has happened to me. For me, unplugging the unit for 10 secs and trying again fixed it. Especially when using a upnp server and considering you’re seeing the content, I can’t see how Macs could cause this.

By: Daryn St. Pierre

Daryn St. Pierre — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:42:41 +0000

Hi Roy. I got an exchange from Best Buy and this one works. I’m having a strange issue with it though. My network is entirely made up of Macs (3 total) and the WDTV Live can see the shared content on the one G5 I am using for media but when I try to stream any of it, the loading wheel just spins and spins. I tried Yazsoft’s Playback app and it has no problem seeing the content shared from that, but I couldn’t stream any of it. So to make the chain of connection easier, I uninstalled Playback and resorted to just using SMB on my Macs. That’s fine, the WDTV can see the content-but again, it can’t play back any of it except photos.

I’m thinking it may be an IP issue or a conflict somewhere. I’ve got the WDTV hardwired into my router and it’s successfully connected to the internet (I can watch YouTube videos with no problem at all).

What do you think? Any advice you can give would be much appreciated. TIA.