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Western Digital pushes into living room with WD TV

Source: VentureBeat

5 days ago

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Western Digital may have uncovered the trick to getting into your living room: simplicity. Today, the company is launching its WD TV HD Media Player, a box that makes it very easy to listen to music or watch movies, home videos, and pictures on your TV.

The box isn’t hooked up to the Internet. You simply connect one of Western Digital’s MyPassport portable backup hard drives to a computer. You transfer everything you want to watch to the portable drive. Then you plug the backup drive into the WD TV. After that the WD TV can play the media on your TV screen via a standard TV cable or an HDMI high-speed wire. The WD TV box can play almost any multimedia file.

For consumers, this means it’s easier than every to watch home movies or view pictures of the family on a big-screen TV in full high-definition color. The need for this kind of solution will grow as we take more digital photos and home movies. According to research firm IDC, nearly 334 million GB of photos and more than 3.1 billion GB of video will be stored on consumer desktop and laptop computers in 2008.