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Flame Artist by day. Proud Dad by, uhm, the rest of the time. Lover of everything Apple. Hater of everything Microsoft. Except for the Xbox 360 of course.

WD TV

Western Digital have a marvel on their hands. My Sony LCD came alive today. Previously, I had a Mac Mini connected using a DVI to HDMI cable and watched lots of 720 and 1080 video on it. I plugged this little (really, really little) wonder into the TV using an HDMI to HDMI cable and it blew me away! The detail, the contrast, the colours I didn’t notice before! I’m going to spend a few pleasurable nights re-watching my HD films now!

Okay, the down side is that the interface is not a patch on Plex but to be honest, I’d rather watch the films than quibble about font kerning. I haven’t worked out how to display thumbnails and I’m not sure you can user-definable ones with MKV files.

The WD TV cost £90 and I spent another £60 for a 320GB USB powered Passport drive and I would have happily spent more. If you’re looking for a media box to play anything (besides DRM’d protected content) this is the one to get. Now if you’ll excuse me, there’s a 1080 version of Goodfellas I’m dying to watch.

Hi. I'm Hani and this is my blog. I also have some photos on Flickr, bookmarks on Delicious, tweets on Twitter and generalities on Facebook as well. Most of the time I can be found at Prime Focus in London, crafting commericals using Flame.

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