As we all know the popular and robust WD media devices were discontinued several years ago and most of us have been finding ways to keep using our potentially decade old WD media devices and or find alternatives and so this post is about what are WD media players owners current options for alternatives as of Dec ?
What are some consumer friendly and readily available alternatives to these beloved but long discontinued devices? I for one have 2 WD Media Live devices but only 1 remote and its on its last leg and an older WD Plus which the remote no longer works with. For someone who is looking for a consumer friendly device that is an alternative to the WD media devices what is available as of Dec that others would recommend and why?
My goal is to replace my own WD media devices but also to start a thread that others will benefit from in the future if like m,e they come to this site looking for advice on what to do now that their own WD media device is in need of replacing. That said, the Pi3 should not even be considered anymore. Android Zombie TV Boxes, ; , multitudes of them, and are the cheapest out there.
Also, most of these cheapo China Android TV boxes, including this one, have poor quality remotes. It rebooted four times before we got to the setup screen, and once we'd applied a firmware update, everything was horribly sluggish. Navigating menus was appallingly slow and we could barely get any type of media — served locally or over the network — to play. Then, just before we were preparing to write it off as a faulty unit, it suddenly kicked into life, playing everything from HD video footage to music served over the network.
We can only assume the WD TV was doing some pretty hefty set-up procedures that slowed it down initially, something to be aware of if you experience the same. When we plugged a USB stick into the front it even coped with a very high bitrate 60 fps p video, something the Roku 3 couldn't manage — although it couldn't cope when we attempted the same stream over Wi-Fi.
Certainly, it's the most versatile device on test here for those with large media collections stored on networked PCs or NAS drives. One fly in the ointment was that we initially couldn't get it to find the media files on two networked Windows 8 PCs, although it was fine once we installed the free Plex media server. Connectivity is by the far the best here, too.
We could also beam the screen of our Android phone wirelessly to the WD TV thanks to its newfound Miracast support, with only fast-moving 3D games proving slightly glitchy. Its range of online media streaming apps is less impressive for UK viewers. There's the BBC iPlayer and YouTube, but the Netflix link on our own homescreen was dead, and the rest of the channels had a distinctly international flavour.
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