Western Digital released a hard drive compliment to their USB Passport hard drive, the WD TV HD Media Player. What they’ve done is develop a high resolution real time streaming device capable of recording up to 1080p to your USB hard drive or super sized USB stick.
It’s clear to me Western Digital will begin developing products to complement or enhance the need of their core business products – hard drives and storage.
The WD TV HD Media Player has a memory buffer inside but uses two USB ports on the backside where you can plug in USB sticks or USB hard drives, like the Passport, to store the digital stream.
The WD TV HD is competatively prices at $129.99 and has HDMI composite outputs.
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