Western Digital launches WD TV - Personal Edition with Miracast support for Rs 7,999

Tech2 News Staff|May 29, 2014, 18:35:55 IST

Western Digital has launched WD TV - Personal Edition, a Wi-Fi-enabled media player which can play any media file on your USB or external drives as well as network storage devices or any computer on the home network. WD TV - Personal Edition has been priced at Rs 7,999 and will be on sale from August onwards. [caption id="attachment_224717" align="aligncenter" width="600"] WD TV Personal Edition also supports Miracast technology[/caption] On first glance, the WD TV - Personal Edition looks quite similar to the older WD TV Live. WD TV- Personal Edition allows users to enjoy a wide range of personal media such as photos, video and music on their home entertainment systems by supporting many file formats, including MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV and more. Files can be streamed from any connected USB drives or external drives. You can also stream content from personal cloud and network attached storage drives like WD’s My Cloud product family, digital camcorder or cameras, and any networked PC or Mac computer in the home. The live user interface has been tweaked which allows customisation of the home page with your favourite apps, setting shortcuts to favourite content folders for quick access and also setting up autorun for preferred apps on startup.[caption id="attachment_224716" align="aligncenter" width="640"] On the rear side of the WD TV Personal Edition you have a LAN port, an HDMI port and a USB port along with Optical out and AV port[/caption]Additionally, WD TV now supports Miracast, so that users can project their Miracast-enabled mobile device onto their TV in up to Full HD 1080p resolution. WD TV also supports apps such as YouTube, Hulu Plus, VUDU, SlingPlayer, Spotify, Pandora and Facebook, among many others. Some of these apps may not work in India.The WD TV Remote app improves the navigation experience for WD TV users by turning their iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or Android compatible mobile device into an advanced feature remote control for their media player.

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