At 04:27 PM 23/03/2012, Winterlight wrote:
On the other hand, a WD Live does have great network support, Gigabit wired and wireless is available, and it supports just about any file you can come up with, even plays a blu-ray iso file, and the WD Live still has all the major internet streams... ok it doesn't have 350 of them like Roku has but most of those are useless anyway. But then I rarely use my WD Live for internet video as Amazon, Netflicks, and VUDU (which streams movies at 1080p) is all available to me direct from my 2 year old Panasonic Vera Plasma TV.
I just got a WD Live TV and I love it. Plays everything I throw at it. We don't get a lot of the services in Canada, but still, it's very nice.
I think a lot of media gets lost in all the Apple hype. Yes, they have a 100 billion in cash, they have very good, and very successful products but their marketing percentages really don't add up to the clout the media attributes to them. It will be interesting to see what happens in the years ahead, now that Jobs is out of the picture.
Yes, if they didn't get the free ride (well actually, the free marketing) that the media gives them, they be just another company lost in the noise.
T
