New WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player Supports Netflix

on 06/09/2010, filed in Home > Photo-Video

Can’t get enough of your Netflix movies? The folks over at Western Digital (WD) understand this, as the company has just announced its WD TV Live Plus HD media player that ships with Netflix support, allowing you to browse titles, manage your Instant Queue and stream your favorite episodes directly to your HDTV. Other features include the ability to stream personalized content from YouTube, Flickr, Pandora, Live365 and MediaFly network, which includes podcasts from CNN, NBC, MTV, ESPN, and other content providers. You’ve also got the added benefit of being able to stream your movies from your PC or Mac, and also USB storage devices, giving you quite a few options to get plenty of media content on your HDTV. The WD TV Live Plus HD media player is currently available for $149.99 with a 1-year warranty.

Netflix: Netflix Inc is an Internet company that distributes video on-demand. As of 2012, the company operated in the USA, but also in South America, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. Netflix was founded in 1997 in California and is still based in Los Gatos in the Silicon Valley. Of course, Netflix is also provides DVD rentals via regular mail, and that is actually how the company took off before becoming the entity that is said to account for 29% of USA download Internet traffic as of March 2011. Netflix is one of the largest customer of Amazon's AWS infrastructure business.

YouTube: is a video-sharing website where users can upload videos. It is currently (7/2012) the largest such site, and was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who all worked at PayPal before. While it mainly featured movies from regular folks (and some illegal user uploads) at the beginning, but eventually YouTube grabbed enough market share to attract higher quality content over the years. Now, there is something for everyone, and YouTube continues to push for high-quality content, while keeping the support from amateur video-makers. The company was acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.6B.

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