Wd media player vs roku

With its built-in WiFi, support for p and a great lineup of content, the Roku 2 XS is still acknowledged as the best streaming media player in Its package includes the media player, a remote control with batteries, a composite AV cable, an AC adapter and a quick install guide for you to get started.

WD TV Play features the now-standard set-top box design that makes it just as easy to store as its competitors. If you don't have a wired Ethernet connection available near your television set, you can use the device's built-in Wireless-N capabilities.

It also features an easy-to-access USB port conveniently located on the side for external hard drives and flash drives. The two biggest gripes that we have with this are the lack of an HD Cable, and the lack of an Ethernet Cable. Luckily as mentioned in our unboxing video these cables come relatively cheap and you can buy the coupled with your Roku 2 XS device from Amazon for a great deal. Roku also offers cross-platform search, capable of finding content across major streaming services. I guess some people find it easier to do nothing and complain i guess?

Yeah i think the only way to test it properly is to bob deinterlace a i30 bluray to p60 at crf or find a native high bitrate p60 sample. Where the incompatibility with my original file seems to lie is that it was encoded with an H.

Re-encoding the file at its original resolution and FPS in Handbrake with a constant quality RF value of of 22 and an h. Support Downloads Knowledge Base. German Spanish Italian French. HGST Support. Many thanks. VC-1 AP L3 up to xi30, xp24 or xp60 resolution. An audio receiver is required for multi-channel surround sound digital output.

Single layer TIFF files only. Uncompressed BMP only. For details, please refer to the user manual. Hear where? While there is a games app on the WD -- which perhaps gives the device its "Play" name -- the games are less diverting than most smartphone apps.

It boasts a "tabletlike user interface" that actually is both configurable and easy to use. Apps such as Spotify and Weather still use the old Mochi interface with its large tabs, while the Netflix interface is the same as used by most other set-top boxes. The interface is very configurable, with a My Favorites page that lets you choose which of the 30 apps you want shortcuts to. Even the three remote shortcut buttons -- Netflix, Vudu, and Hulu Plus -- can be easily changed to whichever app you please.

The reason you'd buy this over the Roku, though, would be if you have a large library of digital files. If you have a collection of downloaded media it will play most videos, with some exceptions, and proves an excellent audio player.

Video quality, while at the mercy of its respective sources, was every bit as good as I could expect. You may find, as I did, that format playback involves a little trial and error; while the specs list included MKV support, this didn't always translate to anything but an error message. Playback of music from a NAS network-attached storage drive was excellent with a clean playback screen, though the cover art would sometimes get mixed up.