Macintosh Compatibility Western Digital WD TV Live Network-ready HD Media Player WDBAAN0000NBK-NESNWhat kind of problems can I expect with my MacPRO laptop and Airport wireless home network? Macintosh Compatibility Western Digital WD TV Live Network-ready HD Media Player WDBAAN0000NBK-NESNWhat kind of problems can I... » Read More Macintosh Compatibility Western Digital WD TV Live Network-ready HD Media Player WDBAAN0000NBK-NESNWhat kind of problems can I expect with my MacPRO laptop and Airport wireless home network? « Show Less
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Wondering if hi res audio (24 bit / 96kHz) can be streamed wirelessly via the Airport Extreme and the WD Live? Does the WD Live come with a Mac (OS X 10.4.11 'Tiger') compatible client? Can I use the WD Live to stream 24/96 audio files stored on my iMac (or networked or local USB HD) without loss of quality? Seems like all these SHOULD work, but nice to get confirmation. I want to use the optical digital output to go into a high end audio DAC. Thanks!
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I bought WD TV live to watch my Slingbox and home cable. Works great, except it's not very compatible with my home cable's remote/programing, etc. Pretty typical of these after market devices. No account is needed with WD TV. Don't know what a 'cc on file' is and I didn't have to do that. I had purchased a Netgear Neo first and it was junk. I returned it and bought the WD. Enjoy!!
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CHeck the compatability of your drive at Netgear.com. The readynas only has certain drives certified.
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Hi, I actually when I bought it I did not check its Mac supported, whereas I wanted to use it on Windows and Linux.So I repartitioned it with NTFS to use on these OSes. But it had HSpace partition, so it is compatible with all Macs
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YES, if you use MSC mode. The player just acts like a flashdrive or portable harddrive. Drag and drop/ copy and paste (whatever the Mac users call it... ) your files. Some of the players don't have the newest firmware to begin with, so you'd have to update it w/ a Windows computer One Time then be a'right.
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Sometimes Mac devices will be specific about which kind of hard drive you exchange with, but for windows devices this is very rarely an issue. As long as you can find drivers for the device, it can be installed.
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Most likely you will not have a problem with it. External drives from reputable companies pretty much all are compatible. It's a great drive and I'm running it on a mac mini so you should be fine on a windows.
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Yes. Although with my wireless N network playback is glitchy/stuttery 30 feet away. It's best to hook up an external HD to it (you can then share the HD over your network to transfer or watch movies wirelessly from your computer). This gives me perfect playback of the few ISO that I have (just started to convert my small collection), one of which is 40GB.
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To my dismay, UPnP AV does not interoperate with DLNA. While I was able to view some folders (the TV does discover my NAS) and few image files, the Audio (mp3) and video files were not found by the TV.I tried installing Samsung software on my computer, it seem the media files are expected to be physically on the computer (and not as a mapped drive to the NAS). Additionally, the computer is expected to be 'wired' to the network (and not be wireless).Obviously there are workarounds. But I would prefer either Samsung supports UPnP AV or my NAS device supports DLNA.
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I am using it in a mixed Mac/Windows home network. It's been a long time since i set it up, but as I recall, I got it to connect without resorting to running the Windows program.I did run the program on a Windows box later just to see what it did, but don't believe I needed it for initial setup.
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yes, it should i just bought one 2 days ago and it's awesome, i've got an old school mac g4 running 10.5 with two external drives connected via firewire (with all my vid's on them) and the WD box was able to connect to the computer without needing to do any kind of setup on the box. you just have to make sure your file sharing is turned on, on ur mac(durr). the only reason i say that it "SHOULD" is that my entire house is setup with gigabit, ie no wireless... so it should work so long as the WD box connects to the network that your computer is on. i'm just not sure how fast everything would be over wireless.
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I have purchased several of these devices, but have not opened any. Dont know if its worth the risk. Purchased a Tripe Mate Elite by HooToo, which is a wireless router that lets you connect an external hard drive (>1TB), do pass thrus, etc. Check this device in Amazon and read reviews. Cost was pretty minimal ±$40. Then you can have several HD's and used the one you want. Need to check the movie whether MP4, or what, has some limitations.
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We never set the network up to be protected. Is this something that would be set by default? We've never entered the MAC address for any of the other computers, playstations, etc and they all work fine.For the 2nd one - add the code for your DNS server - are you suggesting to add the code to the player and if so how?One other problem I have gotten 3 Blu Ray disc from Netflix and none of them have worked but the ones that I have purchased work fine!! I updated the player via an iso image from a disc. Any ideas??Thanks!
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I have a drobo 5n, and my mac and windows machines can both use the drobo with no problems
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It's not a question of whether DLNA is or is not simplistic. It's a question of whether it works when people use this device, and specifically when people use it with the native capabilities of whatever is hosting or storing the media. Saying what's better sidesteps the issue. It would be better for me to ignore the WD and use a powerful desktop computer attached to my TV instead. Unless you factor in cost. In that case, it's better not to need to find any dedicated server program or anything else that's not included for free.
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The WD TV Live is now available at Best Buy! I ordered one on Sunday and picked it up at the store yesterday. The good news is that you can put a USB N dongle on this and you've got a wireless networked player! I used a cheap AirLink 101 AWLL6070 150Mbps 802.11n Wireless LAN USB 2.0 Adapter, which cost me $15. This is fantastic news for all of us who wanted WD to have built-in wireless.
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I don't own a WD TV HD Media Player since it has been replaced with WD TV Live Hub which I do own and what I use the Airlink for. I use the Airlink to wirelessly access my home network and for accessing Netflix etc. If you are looking to connect your device to your computer or network wirelessly this may work. I would suggest you contact Western Digital technical support to find out if it will work for your particular situation. You may also ask a reviewer on the Amazon page for the WD TV HD Media Player. They may can better answer your question.