Deal of the Day: WDTV Live Plus for $90

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ZNF regulars might get the sense we’re big fans of Roku’s streaming media product line… and they’d be right. However, we’ve got love in our hearts for a wide range of boxes – including the WDTV Live Plus. Western Digital may not feature the development community and number of “channels” that Roku sports, but it’s got many of the biggies you’d want (Netflix, YouTube, Pandora) and comparatively excels in local media playback (think MKV). The WDTV Live Plus launched in the $130 – $150 range, and retailers like Amazon are now offering it for about $100. However, NewEgg has sweetened the deal today by taking an additional $10 off when using coupon code: EMCZZYR25. So 90 bucks gets you the WDTV Live Plus, shipped free.

11 thoughts on “Deal of the Day: WDTV Live Plus for $90”

  1. I love my WDTV; except for the interface which is horrible. This is definitely a good deal if you want local network playback and Netflix. I’m looking for another streaming device, but I think I might spend the extra money and get the WDTV Live Hub. $110 more, but seems to have a much better interface, and you get 1 TB of storage with it. (sold only at BestBuy it seems)

  3. I have one and it works great, it supports MKV, ISO and many other formats plus does DVD menus on ISO discs and can play back Blu-ray ISO’s (but it does not do menus on the Bluray’s)

  5. Just last night I steered my Live Plus to a folder full of MKVs and it didn’t see a single one. It saw the AVIs in the folder. If anyone has any guesses, I’d greatly appreciate it. I’m serving from Playback on a Mac Pro running Snow Leopard if that might make a difference.

    But other than that and its extended startup time, I really like the device. Oh, and I wish it had an instant replay. OK, seriously, I do like it. I’ve got a zillion VHS tapes of concerts, live music, etc., and was planning to digitize them all and burn them to DVD. The WDTV L+ is saving me a ton of time and effort. Very nice little device and to my mind already priced at a steal.

  6. @Scott — what about a DVD ripped to the file system and shared up instead of ISO? I’ve been ripping my DVDs to hard drive instead of to ISO from DVDShrink. I suppose I could go in and convert to ISO via mkisofs or something like that if necessary. In any case, I did just order one.

  8. I have been ripping mine (DVD and Blurays) with AnyDVD. It has worked great.

    I dont know of any way to rip Bluray into MKV and keep the great quality. When I find one that does it I will start ripping only in MKV format.

  9. Bob S.: I had the doesn’t see mkv files problem when I reformatted my machine from Vista to Windows 7. It’s about the host machine not sharing those video files, so it’ll be a setting on your Mac somewhere. I forget exactly what fixed it, but I remember in the meantime I was able to play the mkv files if I went to network shares instead of the video category.

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