WD TV / A small tv with iplayer

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Hi All, 2 questions

1 Looking at getting a second WD TV for the bedroom. If anybody has 2, have you been able to browse the HD of WDTV1 from WDTV2?

2 Are there any bargains around on a smallish tv (say around 24"-26"), that have catch up tv ie iplayer and the like?
 
neil_g said:
i dont think that is possible, i dont recall being able to remotely browse the attached drive
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b****r....

If i had a dnla compliant or wifi equipped tv, would that be able to browse the hd attached to a wdtv?

Or, is there a box i can plug a hd into that will allow browsing from the wdtv?

Basically what i am trying to do is have my media accessible everywhere.
 
Rapscallion said:
b****r....

If i had a dnla compliant or wifi equipped tv, would that be able to browse the hd attached to a wdtv?

Or, is there a box i can plug a hd into that will allow browsing from the wdtv?

Basically what i am trying to do is have my media accessible everywhere.
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The WDTV can browse files from a NAS (I think it has to have some sort of uPNP/DLNA arrangement). That's where I store all my media, then its accessible on the WDTV, ipad, laptop etc.
 
yeah or you need some way of networking the drive (usb drive share device or router with USB sharing). or replacing it with a NAS or server (not necessarily DNLA as the WDTV can access any share).
 
And this is why I use PCs as media streamers ;)
 
neil_g said:
I'm confused, why would you want dnla when you have the wdtv?
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I have the wdtv and hard drive in the living room. Looking to get a TV for the bedroom that can access the same content as the wdtv in the living room. Currently dragging the wdtv and hd to the bedroom each time I want to play something and would rather not!
 
Rapscallion said:
I have the wdtv and hard drive in the living room. Looking to get a TV for the bedroom that can access the same content as the wdtv in the living room. Currently dragging the wdtv and hd to the bedroom each time I want to play something and would rather not!
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Have a look at the live hub as the main living room device and use the regular wdtv in the bedroom? Looks like the live hub can share its content
 
Rapscallion said:
How does the TV receive the steam?
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PC gets the stream through ethernet, the TV is fed a decoded signal through HDMI out of the PC. Amp gets fed by S/PDIF optical out of the back. Running Linux/xbmc.
 
Cheers for the answers Tim Andy and Neil.

I keep going back to the NAS / DLNA router i linked to above, the "ASUS RT-N66U" as its cheaper than the wdtv hub, highly rated and more readily available.

anybody used one to stream to a dnla tv?
 
I'm assuming its a smart TV you have then that can accept DLNA? Have you tried accessing any content with the TV DLNA client as the interface on my Toshiba TV is really not very user friendly or quick.
As Neil suggested earlier, has your router got a USB port that you can use for sharing files?
 
TopBanana said:
I'm assuming its a smart TV you have then that can accept DLNA? Have you tried accessing any content with the TV DLNA client as the interface on my Toshiba TV is really not very user friendly or quick.
As Neil suggested earlier, has your router got a USB port that you can use for sharing files?
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Hi Tim.

Havent yet got s dlna tv, looking at buying one soon. also the current router does not have a usb port, and definitely doesnt have dlna capabilities!
 
I have a WDTV an older one possibly 5 years old now, I also have an HP Micro Server which runs in the celler 24x7 it has Twonky installed on it which is a DLNA server which the WDTV sees as a Media Server, this works really well for us. I then use RDP to connect to the Micro Server to manage it and transfer stuff to it etc, torrents and things can also run on it unattented. Its a bit of a geeky setup but works brilliantly. I also have a cheap APC UPS to keep it covered in case of power blips.
 
Picked up a smart 24" Samsung TV for £230, has iplayer, blinkbox, lovefilm, neflix, streams via DLNA, browser etc.

Makes life a lot easier having only 1 remote in the bedroom.
 
Mr Bump said:
I have a WDTV an older one possibly 5 years old now, I also have an HP Micro Server which runs in the celler 24x7 it has Twonky installed on it which is a DLNA server which the WDTV sees as a Media Server, this works really well for us. I then use RDP to connect to the Micro Server to manage it and transfer stuff to it etc, torrents and things can also run on it unattented. Its a bit of a geeky setup but works brilliantly. I also have a cheap APC UPS to keep it covered in case of power blips.
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I was hoping that using the router above and then plugging in my hd containign my media i could mimic your setup, though in a simplified way.


Dale_tem said:
Picked up a smart 24" Samsung TV for £230, has iplayer, blinkbox, lovefilm, neflix, streams via DLNA, browser etc.

Makes life a lot easier having only 1 remote in the bedroom.
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Thats what i was looking for Dale. Currently dragging the wdtv into the bedroom and was looking for a more 'networked' solution..

What model did you get?
 
What router do you have? Even the cheap nasty ones can usually run a DLNA server off a USB drive these days. The horrible Thompson one I have here can manage it.
 
mid_gen said:
What router do you have? Even the cheap nasty ones can usually run a DLNA server off a USB drive these days. The horrible Thompson one I have here can manage it.
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Off to check......

BT home hub 3. And it does have a usb input. Need to find out if it does have a dlna function.

EDIT
After a cursory google search it appears that the specific modem I have ( BT home hub 3 type a) does not have a dlna function...
 
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Try pluging your USB harddrive into the router, then checking that your current WDTV box will pick it up (as that apparently doesn't need DLNA). If that works then you could just get a new WDTV box for the bedroom.
 
TopBanana said:
Try pluging your USB harddrive into the router, then checking that your current WDTV box will pick it up (as that apparently doesn't need DLNA). If that works then you could just get a new WDTV box for the bedroom.
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Hi Tim,

we need a new tv for the bedroom anyway, so was looking at getting one of the smart tv's with built in iplayer.
 
Think DLNA is a bit of a red herring here. All you need is something that will share folders on the network.
That could be a nas unit, an old PC, a server (like a HP microserver) or a drive plugged into a router - it just has to share files.

network players can be browsed to the shared folders and then play what is in them.

A quick search says your home hub will do it as long as the drive is fat32. Might be worth trying a memory stick to test it works. If the wdtv box can find it and play from it then a new smart TV should too (though in my experience not as easily as a wdtv unit).
 
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