Western Digital WD TV Live Network-ready HD Media Player WDBAAN0000NBK-NESN Best Quality

first off, mkv wont play streamed through most media server setups. best bet is to use network shares if you are gonna stream mkv files. it will detect subs within the containers and it will detect subs if theyre in the same directory as the movie file, assuming they share the same name. ive played isos, mkvs, mpgs, mp4s, avis... all through network shares with no real problems relating to file types. on the network issues people are mentioning, i have had many network issues myself, and then realized that closing my download programs while watching movies on this player eliminated the problem. i used to have trouble connecting to my shares, sometimes it would say no media, sometimes it would hang and id need to reboot, sometimes it would load the files but not play them. now, as long as i dont have a bunch of torrents downloading while im using the player, i have no more problems with that connectivity stuff. not being able to download a lot while watching vids via shares is a con because i used to do media server to ps3 stuff all the time with absolutely no trouble due to downloads -- im talkin 10+ simultaneous downloads at 2MBps down and 200kbps down. i think something about the way the wdtv player processes streams overloads my router or something. another flaw is you can only do 16x fast forward and rewind, which is very slow since you are not able to choose chapters or anything on most files you will play on this. ps3 has 120x fast forward and rewind for streamed files. another thing that bugs me is sometimes it will forget where you last left off on a movie, so youll have to start all over or fast forward for several minutes to get to where you want.

features wd needs to add:

- faster fast forward and rewind -- way faster, 16x is much too slow.
- consistent, reliable save states for resuming playback
- generate chapters within files like the ps3 (ps3 lets you break down any vid file into 1 to 5 min segments for selection)
- network issues. a lot of people are having network issues, i think it has something to do with how much load its placing on the routers. ps3 never gave me this problem and i was playing 1080p files as big as 16gb on that as well.Get more detail about Western Digital WD TV Live Network-ready HD Media Player WDBAAN0000NBK-NESN.