hi,
I’m looking at purchasing a WDHDTV live box, but am intending to store media on a NAS network access storage device. I have a couple of questions for you guys:
Do I need to have a USB drive connected to the WDTV?
Can the device stream content directly from network shares?
What would be the downsides of this approach? It seems that a lot of the how-to materials focus on USB drives.
You don’t need a USB drive, you can stream from the network also. Only downside I know of right now is the double thumbnail issue which is being fixed by WD atm.
Do I need to have a USB drive connected to the WDTV?
No, my WDTV box is connected to my network via ethernet cable.
Can the device stream content directly from network shares?
Yes, I am streaming all my movies from my NAS network shared drive.
What would be the downsides of this approach? It seems that a lot of the how-to materials focus on USB drives.
I only have had the WDTV box for a week and I have have not recognized any downsides.