You no longer have to choose which HD component to connect to your TV thanks to THREE HDMI DIGITAL INPUTS that expand your connection options and reduce cable clutter. The 16:9 aspect ratio brilliantly delivers HD movies and DVDs in all their widescreen glory. The Dolby Digital sound and VESA wall-mount compliance make this LCD HDTV perfect for your high-performance entertainment center.

Experience widescreen HDTV Enjoy a widescreen theater experience and high-definition picture quality with this display's widescreen aspect ratio, true HDTV capability, and wide viewing angles. High-definition images look amazing and even standard television images are unbelievably smooth and sharp. Powerful high-fidelity audio It's all accompanied by an ultra-high fidelity 20-watt Dolby Digital sound that completes the entertainment experience. Ask our community members, we are sure they can help you.

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Today we take a look at the Western Digital WD TV HD Media player. The WD TV HD Media Player is a device about the size of an external hard drive that plays A V content from USB storage media. The player supports 1080p for content and menus navigation.

Features Thumbnail and list views - Browse your content by filename or by thumbnails of photos, album covers and movie cover art. Media Library - This unique feature lets you view all your media by media type in one menu regardless of its location in folders or drives. You can view your content by categories such as genre, album, artist and date. Search - Search by genre, title, artist, filename and partial filename. AAC Dolby Digital decodes in 2 channel output only - JPEG does not support CMYK or loss less.

BMP supports uncompressed format only. TIF TIFF supports single layer only. Setup Setup was trivial. There is no network support so setup consisted of connecting power, HDMI, and plugging in an external hard drive. There are also composite connections available nor SDTVs. The player is actually setup for HDTV as default. So many devices are setup to be 4:3 right out of the box. Performance The WD TV HD Media Player worked quite well.

The menus were more polished than we expected. They looked good displayed on a 65 inch 1080p TV. Navigation was simple and intuitive. Once a drive is plugged in the media player scans it for content and organizes it by type. You don't have to go hunting for photos, music or video. You can even search for a file by name.

We attached a universal card reader, an iPod, and an external Western Digital Hard Drive. All three were recognized. But we found no issues with any drive we attached to it. Nor will it decode Dolby Digital beyond two channel. But what it does do is playback pretty much any video you can throw at it.

Ara has been busy converting his VHS Library to mpeg4 and found that the media player not only played the video but did a good job of upconverting it to 1080p. If you have listened to the podcast for a while you know that Ara has an HD Homerun and can record OTA HDTV programs on his computer. These programs are both 1080i and 720p and contain Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. For this evaluation a few recordings were copied to the WD Hard Drive which was then connected to the media player.

They were immediately recognized and made available via the player. The looked beautiful when displayed on the TV and while the sound was not 5.1 it did sound clear. The only real complaint we have about the player is that it does not support Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. Music playback is just as easy. Copy mp3 or AAC files to the hard drive and you are good to go.

The Album art is even displayed in the GUI. The player comes with a nicely laid out remote control. It's small and does not have a ton of buttons. Conclusion Ara was fully anticipating selling the player after he was done with the review. However, due to its tiny size and ease of transport, he now sees it as a great device for travel. And yes, Western Digital got it right by making it a perfect complement to the "My Passport" line of hard drives.

Your review makes it sound like it's limited to Stereo, and can't do multichannel at all. I realize that there's no internal DD5.1 decoder internal to the unit, but so what? ADSG was the R&D unit of the sound department producing products for movie theaters and movie studios. Two of the products they worked on include the DCP-1000 and DADR-5000. The DCP is a digital cinema processor used in movie theaters around the world. The DADR-5000 is a disk-based audio dubber used on Hollywood sound stages.

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Many people think that you have to pay for cable or satellite to get high-definition programming, but you don't. You can get it absolutely free from a UHF-VHF antenna. Consumer Reports says that people who use a UHF-VHF antenna to get free HDTV are actually happier with the picture than those who pay for cable or satellite. The boxes convert a digital signal to an analog signal, so your old analog set can receive it and display the image.

Consumer Reports has tested dozens of digital converter boxes and has found that all of them will give you a good picture - some even as good as a DVD. You can get the ratings at www.consumerreports.org cro electronics-computers tvs-services digital-tv-converter overview dtv-converter-box-guide.htm. If your coupon has expired, you can get a new one.

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