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As many families are planning for ways to welcome the coming year, Western Digital^®, the world’s leader in external storage solutions, gives you new ways to store and share the keepsakes that you create, and gives you the freedom to make more memories with the WD^® TV Live Hub™.

This media center lets you collect the things that matter to you safe in one place, share the things that you love with your family and friends using multiple devices anywhere in your home, and lets you experience a whole new level of entertainment.

Here are the new things to love about the WD TV Live Hub Media Center:

• The advent of HD video and increasing demand for premium online video beefed up the need for storage. In the US alone, households will need at least 500GB of storage in 2013. But WD exceeds that expectation by coming up with a built-in 1 terabyte space in the TV Live Hub™ for both network and local storage.
• The WD TV Live Hub is also a media server. You can stream your HD video, music and photos from the onboard hard drive to any DLNA-certified multimedia device, anywhere in the connected home, including the WD TV Live™ media player, TVs, Blu-ray disc players, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3 game consoles. You can also stream content from the WD TV Live Hub media center to your iPad, iPhone, or Android smart phones.
• Using the new, stylish, and feature-packed interface of WD^® TV Live Hub™, you can now mark your favorite files or folders, even rate them, set up a playback queue, browse videos with synopsis view, and many more.





• Express your personality and mood with WD TV Live Hub’s customizable interface. Choose various themes or use your own photo as background.



• If you want everything to be simple, just grab your remote control and program its color coded keys, or set up the content browse method the way you like it – lesser key presses, more time to enjoy your favorite music, video, and other files.



• Choose from the different input options WD® TV Live Hub™ offers: on-screen keyboard, alphanumeric keypad, and optional USB keyboard.
• WD TV Live Hub allows you to manage your files, or sync content from USB or network drive.
• Using an online database, you can get content information on your media files.
• Facebook fanatics may play their shared photos and videos, and check out the latest newsfeed from this social networking site.



• For those who decided to have a breath of fresh air outside, turn on the WD TV Live Hub first to get weather forecast from AccuWeather.com to help you decide whether to bring your umbrella or not.

With the numerous options and amazing features WD^® TV Live Hub™ offers, you and your family have more reasons to welcome the coming year together!

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WD TV™ LIVE HD MEDIA PLAYER IS THE FIRST NETWORK MEDIA PLAYER COMPATIBLE WITH WINDOWS 7

WD® (NYSE: WDC), the world’s leader in external storage solutions, today announced that the WD TV Live HD media player, featuring network capability and Full-HD 1080p resolution, is the first network media player compatible with Windows 7. The WD TV Live HD media player makes it easy for anyone to play media stored on USB and network drives, any PC on the home network, as well as content from popular websites, on the biggest television screen in their home.

Using the Windows 7 Play To feature, users can initiate and control the streaming of video, music or photos to the WD TV Live HD media player and home entertainment systems from any Windows 7-based PC on their network. Any compatible media file accessible from the PC — located either on the PC or on the network — can be played to the WD TV Live by right clicking on the file name in the folder or directly from within Windows Media Player 12 and choosing the WD TV Live HD media player as the playback device.

Current users of the WD TV Live will need to update their media player to the latest firmware in order to use the Windows 7 Play To feature. Instructions for updating the WD TV Live HD media player can be found here.

“Microsoft is pleased that Western Digital has earned the Compatible with Windows 7 logo and is supporting the Play To feature with WD TV Live HD media player,” said Mark Relph, senior director, Windows Ecosystem Product Management at Microsoft Corp. “Now more than 100 million Windows 7 customers will have an affordable and easy way to play files to their HD TVs and other devices from their PC.”

“We regularly engage with WD TV Live enthusiasts in our online community. Many have been asking for a way to “push” media from their PCs to their TV or home theater system, especially from laptops. With the new Windows 7 Play To feature, users can select music or movies from their laptop and play it on an HD TV connected to a WD TV Live HD media player, whether the HD TV is across the living room or in a different room altogether,” said Dale Pistilli, vice president of marketing for WD’s branded products group. “WD worked closely with Microsoft on this exciting new feature to ensure the seamless compatibility of the WD TV Live HD media player with Windows 7 PC’s and deliver WD TV Live users what they want.”

WD TV Live HD Media Player

Features of the Windows 7-compatible WD TV Live HD media player include:

• Full-HD 1080p video playback and navigation with the included remote control and crisp, animated navigation menus;
• Play a wide variety of file formats including support for the most popular file formats with no need to spend time transcoding;
• Play videos, music and photos from the Internet on your big screen TV and discover new music with Pandora® Internet radio or listen to thousands of radio stations via Live365 Internet radio;
• Ethernet port for wired or WiFi® connection¹ to access files anywhere on the network to play movies, music, and photos from any PC or drive on a home network;
• Turns a USB drive² into an HD media player and plays content from most popular USB drives, and digital cameras, camcorders, and portable media players that can be recognized as mass storage devices;
• Unlimited media collection, just add more USB drives for more space;
• Two USB ports for seamless media playback from multiple USB drives and ability to access them simultaneously while a media library feature collects the content on all the drives into one list sorted by media type;
• Transfer files by copying, moving or deleting files stored on a USB drive, a network drive, a camcorder, or a camera to the attached USB drive using the on-screen menus;
• Picture Transfer Protocol support to show photos and movies directly from digital camera or video camera and/or any digital imaging device that supports Picture Transfer Protocol;
• Advanced navigation options including thumbnail and list views, media library and search;
• Photo viewing to create custom slide shows, zoom and pan and search;
• Movie viewing with fast-forward, rewind, pause, zoom and pan, view subtitles, and search;
• Music playback with fast-forward, rewind, pause, shuffle, repeat and search;
• File copying between USB devices;
• HDMI® 1.3 port, composite video and component video output for the highest quality HDTV or home theater;
• SPDIF digital output that sends digital signals to your AV receiver for the best surround sound experience; and,
• Ultra-compact design to fit easily into a home entertainment center.

Pricing and Availability

The WD TV Live HD media player is distributed by Axis Global Technologies, Inc. and ATP Peripherals (Phils), Inc. and is available now at select retailers in Philippines. Covered by a 1-year limited warranty, the MSRP for WD TV Live HD media player is ₱7,500.

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