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morgilroka

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http://store.westerndigital.com/store/wdus/en_US/pd/The...

Im looking to buy one on those (link above). To play my Movies and connect to netflix. Wondering if anyone has experience with one of these, You guys are the only ones i would think to ask.

It shows having an ethernet port but says something about steaming? so im confused to weather i need to run a ethernet cable through my house or not to use netflix.

I have a 2TB external WD hardrive so i can easily use that to load up with movies from my computer and walk it back and forth between my computer and TV setup whenever i need.

Im probably going to buy it just for the ease of use not needing to burn all my movies to discs all the time that only hold like 2 full length movies. it would be nice to have a big collection in one.

Or would i be able to use my hardrive with my blu-ray player thats hooked up to my TV?

Please throw me some info or a reccomendation to my situation!
Thanks Guys!
 
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affroman112

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Your link did not work for me, but I am assuming it is the WD TV Live. I have one and love it. It has a ethernet port and built in wireless. Netflix works great on it and it has two usb ports for hard drives or you can connect to a network share. You can move files to a hard drive connected to it over the network. Plays almost all of my files.

Your blu-ray player may support your video files, I would need to know the model number.
 
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morgilroka

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My Blu-ray player is a "Samsung BDp1600" It's a couple years old so i'm not too sure about it working.

Correct, i was referring to the WDTVlive. now knowing that it has built in wireless is amazing! the website doesn't clearly state that lol. Some files i have for movies won't even play on my windows media player, only in VLC. so im guessing it would be the same issue there.

Do you know for a fact that it plays. .x264 files? That would be amazing and i would be sold! thanks for the help!
 
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Looks like the blu-ray player won't play those files. I use 720p and 1080p mkvs almost exclusively on my WD. So yes it plays .h264 very well. It can't do the new 10bit .h264, but I don't know of any set top box that does. The remote is big and well layed out also.
 
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Not sure where to find weather its the 10bit style. I Rip all my Blu-rays anyways so im not sure what the output is. i know the file is a x264 (MP4) 23.976 fps and 1920x800. Really wish these would work on the box because i'm not sure how to convert to another filetype without losing the quality.

This is assuming im using the Harddrive right? What about steaming it or using the file share from my computer?
 
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