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Is it possible to implement into the future firmware a primitive web browser?

As in the 1.04.17 the wd live support facebook and keyboard why not an internet browser in the future?

Web browser is officially “UNPLANNED”.

See this post in the Ideas forum:

http://community.wdc.com/t5/Live-Live-Plus-Ideas/Web-Browser/idi-p/83267

The reason is:

The processor in the WD TV Live/Live Plus is not powerful enough to make for a good web browsing experience.

“The processor in the WD TV Live/Live Plus is not powerful enough to make for a good web browsing experience.”

True. We’re getting into an area where the users want a fully-blown computer in their living rooms, instead of the small, inexpensive media streamer that WD make.

The OP’s going to have to spend more than 95 bux. I wouldn’t use a Mac Mini (more expensive than it’s worth) but that’s not a bad place to start researching. He can have a wireless keyboard, and Firefox, and VLC, and YouTube-in-HD, and Netflix-in-Canada, and all the other neat stuff he wants incorporated into the cute l’il WD Live. But the price tag starts at (minimally) $400.

PixelPower wrote:

Web browser is officially “UNPLANNED”.

 

See this post in the Ideas forum:

http://community.wdc.com/t5/Live-Live-Plus-Ideas/Web-Browser/idi-p/83267

 

The reason is:

The processor in the WD TV Live/Live Plus is not powerful enough to make for a good web browsing experience.

Still a stupid comment, the reason most of us want a browser is to access online video content to stream.

But that is why I bought a Boxee Box instead. Great browser

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