WD Launches TV HD Media Player in India

WD Launches TV HD Media Player in India

Techtree News Staff, Jan 19, 2009 1424 hrs IST

The media player comes with a 1 year warranty and is available now at select retailers and WD's online store at Rs. 6500

WD has launched a media player that connects to a user's TV or home theater and plays digital movies, music, and photos from WD's My Passport portable drive or other USB mass storage devices.

WD had launched this media player in the US back in November 2008 and has now launched it in India.

It was only this month that Seagate launched the FreeAgent Theater HD media player to enable the viewing of stored digital media material on TV screens rather than computer monitors.

Users can leave the WD TV HD Media Player connected to their TVs and plug in up to two My Passport USB drives or other USB mass storage devices loaded with HD media. With the help of the included remote control, they can navigate and play content of their liking with the media player's on-screen menu.

Features of the WD TV HD Media Player include:

Apart from WD's My Passport portable drives, it also plays content from WD My Book family of drives and USB drives, digital cameras, camcorders, and portable media players that can be recognized as mass storage devices,

Video playback and navigation - up to 1080p,

Navigation options such as thumbnail and list views; WD's Media Library feature lets users view all media by media type in one menu regardless of its location in folders or drives; ability to search by genre, title, artist, filename, and partial filename,

Photo viewing features to create custom slides shows; ability to zoom and pan; search photos by filename, partial filename, most recently viewed, and date,

Movie viewing with ability to fast forward, rewind, pause, zoom, and pan and to view subtitles and search by filename, partial filename, most recently viewed, and date,

Music playback with fast forward, rewind, pause, shuffle, repeat, and search by filename, partial filename, most recently viewed, and date,

Two USB ports on the player connects up to two USB mass storage devices and accesses them simultaneously, while the Media Library feature aggregates the content on both drives into one list sorted by media type,