Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1661 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Western Digital
• Model: WDBAAM0000BK-EESN
• Released on: 2009-09-17
• Dimensions: .83" h x 3.58" w x 3.58" l, .25 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
An easy, affordable way to supersize your digital media on your big screen TV. Simply connect the player to your TV, plug a USB drive into the player and you’re ready to enjoy all your digital media in DVD quality playback, including RealVideo.

Turn your USB drive into a media player - play DVD-quality content from your USB drive. Optimised for My Passport portable hard drives. Also works with most other USB drives, digital cameras, and camcorders.

Supports an extensive list of file formats - plays back a wide variety of DVD-quality file formats without the need to transcode, including RealVideo.

Simple, intuitive user interface - use the included remote control to navigate smoothly through your entertainment choices using the DVD-like navigation. Supports video chapters, trick modes, and subtitles.

Collect without limits - there’s no limit to the size of your media collection; just add more USB drives for more space.

Automatic play - set the player to play a selected media file automatically when the unit is turned on. Perfect for living art on your HD TV or for digital signage.

Small and portable - small enough to take with you. Play video at home, at a friend’s house or while you’re travelling.

There are a wide range of navigation options including thumbnail, list and video previews. Browse your content by file name or by thumbnails of photos, album covers and movie cover art. Preview videos while you browse your content. With its media library you can view all your media by media type in one menu regardless of its location in foldersm or search by filename.

The extensive photo viewing features include the ability to create custom slide shows with a variety of transitions and background music, as well as zoom and pan.

The music playback features include fast forward, rewind, pause, shuffle and repeat.

Connections need not be a problem as the WD TV mini supports three types of interface. Composite video connection (RCA) outputs ensure compatibility with virtually all television sets, component video connection. Component (Y Pb Pr) output delivers high definition resolution to your HDTV. Optical Audio allows you to output high fidelity audio or pass-through digital audio signal to your AV receiver for surround sound experience.

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Customer Reviews

Bring your Grandparents into the digital media age!
Hello, my Grandparents have an extensive collection of DVD's, dwindling space on the shelves and an old crt television set. Not exactly my idea of a Home Cinema set up. So when I saw this little gadget on Amazon I thought I'd take the plunge and test it out. Connecting the little Media Centre to your TV is as easy as connecting a dvd or video player, just plug it into your AV sockets or scart adapter and turn it on. I had already backed up a tonne of DVD's to a 1.5tb Samsung Story External Harddrive, so I just plugged that into the USB port and 'bingo' it appears as a drive on the Media Centre. Now I set this up for my Gandparents, who are in their early 70's and gave them a brief tour of the remote, and how to find a film and how to play, pause and stop. They were away within an hour or two, of painless experimenting, with remarkable ease.
Now, this media centre is great for older TV's as it is only 1080i on a high def set and there is NO HDMI port, but it is so very cheap and easy to use, which is great.
If like me you want to change the way your parents or grandparents watch TV then this is a great introduction. Be aware though, there is only 1 USB port for your media library and you will need a POWERED USB HUB to connect another drive when it gets full. As far as file support goes it will play anything unless it is an MKV or the audio is DTS, (it will only do AC3 at the moment). Picture quality was as good quaity as the rip, but a good rip on a low def crt TV was good DVD quality. The remote is very responsive and very small, so if you are a bit quick with it you can hit buttons too many times, just slow down a bit and you are fine. The media centre itself is tiny, smaller than 2 cd cases on top of each other, small!
So, in my opinion, this media centre is a great entry point, it is cheap, easy to use, small and versatile. This is not for people who are already clued into media centres and the benefits of divx/xvid/mkv - but then you already knew that. Oh! one last thing, there is support for subtitle files and for audio stream switching too. Thanks for reading.