WD TV
consumer device by Western Digital
The WD TV is a discontinued series of consumer digital media players produced by Western Digital designed to play videos, images, and music from USB drives, internal drives or network locations. The WD TV line was introduced in 2008 and could play high-definition video through an HDMI port and standard video through composite video cables. The device had support for most common video and audio formats. The WD TV was discontinued as of August 2016.
Models
WD TV (1st Gen)
In November 2008 Western Digital introduced the WD TV. with full HD 1080p multimedia player with DTS pass-through only. The hardware starts with a 300 MHz TangoX MIPS 4KEc from Sigma Designs, which has 100 MB of memory.
WD TV (2nd Gen)
Updated device with 2-channel DTS support. Uses the same Sigma SMP8655 Secure Media Processor as the Live.
WD TV Mini
Released in Fall 2009, it was a Media Player with DVD quality, upscales to 1080i, Plays back RealVideo and many other popular file formats with no need for transcoding, but lacks the ability to play H.264-encoded video. It is the only WD TV device without HDMI, providing only analog video output.
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