Western Digital intros WD TV Live Hub media center

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Digital, one of the world's
leaders in external storage solutions and maker of the popular WD TV
media player family, introduced the WD TV Live Hub media center, a
full-HD 1080p media player with a 1 terabyte (TB) built-in network
hard drive that gives users the freedom to play all their personal
media on any screen in the home. The WD TV Live Hub media center
brings new experiences to the WD TV family, which include interacting
with personal Facebook communities.

WD TV Live Hub plays a wide variety of
media file types, including popular full-HD 1080p video formats such
as .mkv, .mp4 and .mov. The integrated, compact and quiet 1 TB hard
drive enables users to centralize their digital media from multiple
sources for smooth, glitch-free playback of even the highest
resolution videos. Digital media can be easily transferred to the
internal drive from shared folders on PCs and Macs on the network or
directly from external hard drives, thumb drives, camcorders or
cameras connected via one of the two USB ports. Users can also stream
videos from home network drives with a DLNA/UPnP server such as the
My Book Live Home Network Drive. WD TV Live Hub also is a media
server: the HD video, music and photos can be streamed from the on
board hard drive to any DLNA/UPnP-compatible TV or multimedia device,
anywhere in the connected home, including WD TV Live HD media
player, connected TV's, Blu-ray Disc players, Xbox 360, and
PlayStation 3. Users also can stream content from their WD TV Live
Hub to iPads, iPhones or Android smartphones using third-party
applications.

The WD TV Live Hub offers unique
Facebook integration, which lets users upload photos and videos,
share their status, view their wall and get the latest newsfeed from
their network of friends — all on the big screen TV. In addition,
WD TV Live Hub provides HD viewing of YouTube for user generated
videos and Flickr for photo sharing. Additional content includes
local and international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and
MediaFly daily video podcasts from CNN, NBC, MTV and ESPN. The
customizable WD TV Live Hub user interface enables personalization of
screen backgrounds and user interface themes, as well as setting of
favorites and content ratings. Standard wired or wireless USB
keyboards can be used for simpler text input for activities such as
searches of local content and YouTube and Facebook interaction. “The
WD TV Live Hub media center lets users create a personalized media
jukebox that brings your entire personal content collection and the
best of Internet content to the biggest screen in the house,” said
Khwaja Saifuddin, Senior Director-Sales, Middle East, Africa and
South Asia. He further added, “With the WD TV Live Hub media
center, consumers can take their home entertainment experience to the
next level, streaming personal content to multiple rooms at the same
time, so they can play a YouTube video on their HDTV screen in the
family room, while sharing vacation slideshows on the computer in
their home office.” “The modern Indian household has a
PC, a laptop, portable drives, a camcorder, broadband and a large
amount of digital content stored on various other devices. A
versatile, easy-to-use media player that allows them to stream
personal or online content from other devices in their home can be an
instant hit. That's exactly what the WD TV Live Hub media center
delivers,” said Sushil Bandi, Country Manager-India, Western
Digital.