WD TV adds streaming options, tunes televisions near and far to your Slingbox
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- Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:46:18 -0500
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New International and Domestic Entertainment Options Complement WD TV®
Live? and WD TV® Live Hub?'s 'Play Anything' Popularity
IRVINE, Calif., June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Western Digital® (NASDAQ:
WDC), the world's leader in external storage solutions and maker of
the popular WD TV® media player family, today introduced a variety of
new entertainment options for the WD TV Live? and WD TV Live Hub?
media players. Current and new users can now enjoy Red Bull TV?, ABC
iview (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), Acetrax?, Maxdome, the
BILD TV-App, and the AOL On Network. They can also watch live and
recorded TV with the new SlingPlayer® app and save their premium HD
movies to the WD TV Live Hub's internal storage with VUDU.
WD's new entertainment choices add to the WD TV media player family's
prodigious ability to play personal content such as videos, photos and
music by supporting a wide range of media formats. Users can watch
content located on any networked PC or Mac® computer in the home, from
a network drive such as WD's My Book® Live? personal cloud storage,
and from any directly connected digital camcorder, camera, or USB
drive. WD TV Live Hub owners can also save and share pictures and
videos from outside the home, using the WD Photos? app for iPhone®,
iPad® and Android? mobile devices.
"WD continuously listens to its customers, and adds the content
options they want," said Scott Vouri, vice president and general
manager, WD connected home solutions. "With today's addition of
hot international and domestic channels, live TV through SlingPlayer,
and HD movie rentals, purchases and downloads through VUDU, the WD TV
media players truly provide the most entertainment."
The WD TV Live Hub is the only media player to offer direct HD movie
download service for today's hottest new movie releases purchased from
VUDU's large library of movies and TV shows. VUDU is a
subscription-free, HD video streaming service, which offers more than
70,000 blockbuster titles including new releases, Hollywood classics,
independent films, and TV shows. Because it has an integrated 1TB hard
drive, the WD TV Live Hub can save and play back purchased digital
content from VUDU, including the high-quality HDX? video format that
features 1080p Full HD and rich Dolby Digital Plus? 7.1 audio.
"By centralizing their entertainment on the WD TV Live Hub, our
customers get high-performance full-HD movie playback without
overloading their home network or cluttering up the hard drives of
other PCs in the house," added Vouri. From "Mission:
Impossible Ghost Protocol" to "The Muppets" WD brings
today's top movies to the WD TV Live Hub for a cinema-like experience
at home through the available VUDU service.
New Services[1] Now Available:
SlingPlayer (worldwide) ? With a Slingbox® connected in your home, the
SlingPlayer app brings your living room TV experience to your
connected device in any room ? around the home or around the world.
The AOL On Network (US) ? The AOL HD app, part of The AOL On Network,
features high-definition technology, lifestyle, celebrity and
entertainment content updated daily from The AOL On Network, which
features video from brands like Engadget, TechCrunch, The Huffington
Post and Moviefone.
Red Bull TV (worldwide) ? A unique online portal offering exclusive
high quality programs from the World of Red Bull in HD. Available to
nearly all devices ? Red Bull TV offers worldwide live webcasts and a
thematic catalogue of VODs complementing exclusive shows of the
multimedia content of redbull.com.
ABC iview (Australia) ? ABC iview is Australia's most popular catch-up
TV service and is run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
(ABC). It features 14-day catch-up from channels ABC1, ABC2, ABC3,
ABC4Kids and ABC News 24.
Acetrax movies (UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy and
Austria) ? Available on the WD TV Live only, this service offers
blockbuster new release and library movies from the major Hollywood
studios.
maxdome (Germany) ? Available on the WD TV Live only, the most popular
German video-on-demand service maxdome delivers over 45,000 major film
and TV titles.
BILD TV-App (Germany) ? With the BILD TV-App users navigate easily and
comfortably with the remote control through Germany's largest news and
entertainment portal. The application offers the latest news and
videos from politics, lifestyle, entertainment and sports, as well as
the pictures of the day.
Availability
The WD TV Live and WD TV Live Hub can be purchased at select retailers
and online at wdstore.com.
About WD
WD, a storage industry pioneer and long-time leader, provides products
and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use
digital information. The company designs and produces reliable,
high-performance hard drives and solid state drives that keep users'
data accessible and secure from loss. Its storage technologies serve a
wide range of host applications including client and enterprise
computing, embedded systems and consumer electronics, as well as its
own storage systems. Its home entertainment products enable rich
engagement with stored digital content.
WD was founded in 1970. The company's products are marketed to leading
OEMs, systems manufacturers, selected resellers and retailers under
the Western Digital®, WD® and HGST? brand names. Visit the Investor
section of the company's website (www.westerndigital.com) to access a
variety of financial and investor information.
Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, WD TV, and My Book are registered
trademarks in the U.S. and other countries; WD TV Live and My Book
Live are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Other marks
may be mentioned herein that belong to other companies. Pictures shown
may vary from actual products. Not all products may be available in
all regions of the world. All product and packaging specifications
subject to change without notice. As used for storage capacity, one
terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies
depending on operating environment.
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