WD TV Live user reviews (2011)

Cons Not always reliable — freezes with some 1080p movies. on February 4, 2012 by RobertoGiannotta  | Read full review

Cons Fiddly remote. on January 28, 2012 by peterwalsh  | Read full review

Cons I bought the WDTV Live SMP 3 days ago. It stops in the middle of a MKV or AVI (or any file) after about ten minutes, loses sound and says it is 'Unable to play the selected file' and that I should 'check the User Guide for a list of file formats'! on January 24, 2012 by trexdesign  | Read full review

Cons No Support for .wmv or .flv files. No component cable jacks. HDMI cable not included. Does not read the meta-data stored in .avi file tags. on January 16, 2012 by mlawrenceb  | Read full review

Cons Is not a Media Extender as Windows defines it on December 25, 2011 by pip_kuruvilla  | Read full review

Cons Unable to play RMVB format. on November 22, 2011 by Ryan_Chua  | Read full review

Cons Not unhappy at all on October 7, 2011 by sumerp  | Read full review

Cons Doesn't have support for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Can't play any movies from my laptop. AppleTV doesn't have the streaming service options which is why I went with WD. They need a fix fast. on October 20, 2011 by TX_Reader  | Read full review

Cons Remote, "green screen" problem on October 7, 2011 by Shysterbiker  | Read full review

Cons The past version of this product was plagued by absolutely awful firmware upgrades. Each version created a host of problems for users - myself included. Recently WD extended their horrible firmware failure rate to the MyBook World I use to store videos fo on October 7, 2011 by JohnAMarr  | Read full review

Cons firmware upgrades stop when next version of unit comes out, firmware team lied about working on updates of firmware, remote provided with unit very unreliable... on October 7, 2011 by ffloydbob  | Read full review

Cons Pretty poor piece of technology for the price. Its limited, slow, has a very user unfriendly keyboard (not Qwerty) and poor interface .

Compare this with other Media/Blue Ray players, eg Philips or Sony Blue Ray players that have most of these media play on October 10, 2011 by Dewyodor  | Read full review

Cons Missing too many features and the ones it has are not well implemented. on October 7, 2011 by Hogward  | Read full review