I don’t know why I assumed the WD TV Play, at a price point $40 less than the Live, might be a unit equal to if not more advanced than the Live and thus a unit worth replacing my Live with entirely. I suppose it’s my own fault.
No DTS apparently, so half my files are unwatchable. I tells me to “setup digital passthrough” to a DTS capable receiver if I want to hear the sound, which I do, and still no sound, same message appears.
Annoying, albeit less deal-breaking, is that I noticed if I shut the unit down it doesn’t pick up files I’ve watched from where I left off–it begins from the start. Silly.
I’m sure there are more idiotic differences I’d discover over a continued course of use, but I figure I’ll just return it, pretend like it doesn’t exist, and press on with my Live.
Just to let you know it only connects to network drives via media server and not network shares plus It does not support mpeg2 so it will not play DVD images.
I can confirm it does do DTS and DTS-HD MA passthrough, but I had the same message popup the other day after the firmware update, just clicked okay and all works fine.
I actually bought this unit specifically because unlike the Live this does DTS passthrough, which was worth more to me then being able to connect to network shares.
