Media Center
WD TV Live Hub

Capacity:
500 GB - 2 TB

Your entire media collection in one place.
A media player and drive, so you can store your media collection in virtually any file format, download movies, and enjoy it all on your TV.

Endless entertainment on your TV.
Stream the latest movies, trending videos, hit shows and your favorite music. Play media from the built-in drive, USB drives, computers and more.

Shoot it on your smartphone, share it on your HDTV.
Take a photo or video clip with your smartphone or tablet and upload it directly to the built-in hard drive on your WD TV Live Hub.

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You can enjoy entertainment in every corner of your home.
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Centralize your media collection.

Load up the built-in high-capacity drive with all your media to create your own media jukebox. Store your home videos and music for a stutter-free playback experience.


Get the best entertainment on your HDTV.

Stream hit movies, view the latest viral videos, catch up on shows, stay connected to your social network and watch highlights from the biggest games of the season. Don't settle for online entertainment on your small computer screen. With the WD TV Live Hub, you can enjoy it all on your HDTV.
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Play almost any type of media file.

WD TV Live Hub supports a wide variety of the most popular file formats including HD camcorder video formats. No need to spend time transcoding.

Automatic play.

Select your favorite song, movie or photo slideshow to automatically play when the device is turned on. Perfect for living art on your HDTV or for digital signage.

Your media collection belongs on the big screen.

Enjoy your media library, home videos, vacation slideshows, and favorite songs on your HDTV and sound system in your living room. Sit back and enjoy the spectacular picture quality of Full-HD 1080p.

Access media anywhere on your home network.

The Ethernet port lets you connect this media player to your home network so you can access and stream video, view photos, and play music from any Mac, PC, and network drive in your house.



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Shoot it on your smartphone, share it on your HDTV.

Take a photo or video clip with your smartphone or tablet and upload it directly to the built-in hard drive on your WD TV Live Hub. When you get home, you have new files waiting for you so you can enjoy them on your HDTV. You can also get quick access to all the photos stored on your WD TV Live Hub media center and show them off with your smartphone or tablet from anywhere.
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It's a multi-room media server streaming to any TV in your house.

You can stream any file on the WD TV Live Hub media center to a WD TV Live media player or any DLNA/UPnP compatible TV, Blu-ray Disc™ player, or game console. The system is powerful enough to handle multiple streams so you can stream a movie to your Blu-ray Disc player, while viewing photos on your TV upstairs.

Show photos and movies directly from your digital camera or camcorder.

Connect your camcorder or digital camera directly to the media center using one of the USB ports, and instantly view or archive HD video and photos without a PC. Works with any digital imaging device that supports Picture Transfer Protocol.

Transfer files easily.

Copy, move or delete files stored on a USB drive, a network drive, your camcorder, or a camera attached to the media center using the on-screen menus.

Turn your smartphone or tablet into a touch-screen remote.

Control your WD TV experience with the swipe of a finger using the WD TV Remote™ app. Great for text input when logging into a service and searching for a movie or video. One-touch access to your favorite online services. Download the free app from the Apple® iTunes store or the Android™ Market.

Programmable remote.

Use the included programmable remote control to make your entertainment choices using our crisp, animated navigation menus. Customize buttons for quick and easy access to your favorite music, photos, videos or menu choices.

Full-HD 1080p
video playback.

This is the real thing; Full-HD 1080p playback. Sit back and enjoy the spectacular picture quality of brilliant high definition video and the crystal-clear sound of digital audio.

Works with USB keyboards.

Use the on-screen keyboard, an alphanumeric keypad, or attach your wired or wireless USB keyboard for easy text input. Perfect for searching videos on YouTube or updating your status on Facebook.

Wireless-ready.

Supports a wireless network connection to your home network with an optional USB wireless adapter. [Click here to view compatible wireless-ready USB adapters.] Or, get the speed you need to stream HD with a WD Livewire powerline AV network kit - it extends your Internet to any room in your home using your electrical outlets.

HDMI, composite video and component video output.

The HDMI port lets you connect to the highest quality HDTV or home theater. Additional composite (RCA), and component outputs ensure compatibility with virtually all television sets.

SPDIF digital output.

The optical audio output sends digital signals to your AV receiver for the best surround sound experience.



A world of entertainment in one simple box.

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Enjoy popular movies, classics, and TV episodes instantly. Review your Netflix recommendations, search for content, and add items to your Netflix instant Queue - no PC is required. Access your Netflix unlimited membership and instantly watch TV episodes and movies on your big screen.*

*Netflix is available in certain countries. Unlimited membership required. More information at www.netflix.com.

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Hulu Plus offers current hit TV shows and award-winning movies anytime in HD . Watch any current season episode of top shows like Modern Family, Glee, 30 Rock and many others, enjoy classic series, or explore acclaimed movies from The Criterion Collection and Miramax. Available on WD TV Live Plus, WD TV Live Hub, gaming consoles, connected TVs, smartphones and tablets for only $7.99/month..*

*Hulu Plus subscription required. Available in the US only.

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Share your status, photos, videos, and your favorite links on Facebook. Find out the latest news from your social network or the world and so much more. Access it all on your big screen TV.

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Free, personalized Internet radio playing only the music you love. Enter your favorite songs or artists, and enjoy stations created just for you. Rate songs as they play, because Pandora caters to your tastes and adapts stations to your feedback on the spot.

*Available in the US only.

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With Spotify, you choose the music. Enjoy on-demand access to millions tracks and albums. Any artist, any album, any genre - available instantly on your WD TV.

*Spotify premium account required. Available in US, UK, Sweden, Finland, Norway, France, The Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Denmark.

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Stream YouTube and watch your favorite videos from the world's #1 video sharing website on your television.

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VUDU delivers a cinema-like experience at home with the hottest new releases and the largest HD library. There are no subscription fees or late fees, simply pay for what you watch. Choose to rent or own from thousands of titles available in vibrant 1080p with rich Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. Activate your VUDU account on WD TV® Live Hub™ or WD TV® Live™ media player today and receive a free* movie credit.

*New VUDU account required. Terms and conditions apply. For more information visit www.vudu.com.

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HD content from Moviefone, Engadget, Huffington Post and more delivered to your TV with fresh content every day. Only on AOL HD.

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With a Slingbox® connected in your home, the SlingPlayer® app brings your living room TV experience to your WD TV media player, whether it’s around the home or around the world. Watch and control your TV no matter how near or far you are from your Slingbox. With the SlingPlayer app on your WD TV media player, watch your favorite shows on the big screen.

*Compatible with Slingbox Pro-HD, Solo, 350 and 500.

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Watch every out-of-market game LIVE or on demand in HD quality on your favorite device. Almost 100 games are streamed LIVE each week. Choose home or away feeds, and use quick navigation to run scoring plays or at bats. PLUS, watch over 150 Spring Training Games with no blackout restrictions.

* MLB.TV Premium subscription required.

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With over 11,000 titles to choose from, CinemaNow gives you instant access to new release movies the same day they come out on DVD and brings you TV episodes for many popular shows the day after they air.* No subscription required and no need to drive to a kiosk or wait for movies in the mail!

*CinemaNow account required. US only.

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Watch the latest theatrical movie trailers and get critics reviews from Rotten Tomatoes™. Preview movies that are opening this week and see what’s hot at the box office. See what’s new on DVD and Blu-ray and the top rentals.

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PlayJam is your first choice for the best games on TV. From action and adventure to puzzle and word games, PlayJam has something for everyone. Play to win prizes, play against a friend or just play to climb the leaderboard - PlayJam has a global community of players already....join them!

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The world's largest Internet radio guide with access to over 30,000 free radio stations searchable by location, genre, or format.

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Red Bull TV is your exclusive wingman to the best seats at spectacular sporting and culture experiences worldwide – available 24/7 whenever and wherever you want it.

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WinTV adds live over-the-air digital TV to your WD TV Live or WD TV Live Hub. Just plug the WinTV TV tuner into a USB port on your WD TV Live or WD TV Live Hub, plug in an antenna and scan for TV channels. Then start watching live digital TV on your TV screen! Record digital TV to the internal drive on the WD TV Live Hub, or to a USB thumb drive on the WD TV Live.

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SHOUTcast Radio is the ultimate directory of online radio stations featuring over 45,000 music, talk, sports, and community radio stations from around the world.

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Take your video experience to the next level with Vimeo. Get a video experience with absolutely no pre-roll ads, unlimited video length, unlimited HD playback and embedding, superior privacy settings and more! Vimeo is the next step in your creative film and video experience.

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Explore our extensive knowledge base of movies, TV shows and bios. Browse information, play trailers and easily discover where to watch your favorite programs.

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Picasa is a fast and easy photo sharing service from Google. Sign in to your Picasa account to see all of your favorite photos and albums. You can also view friends’ photos by adding them to the "People I’m Following" feed.

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Dailymotion is about finding new ways to see, share and engage your world through the power of online video. You can find videos about your interests and hobbies, eyewitness accounts of recent news and distant places, and everything else from the strange to the spectacular.

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Listen to thousands of commercial-free Internet radio stations! Live365 has broadcasts from Radio Disney, Santana, David Byrne, Pat Metheny, and Paul Oakenfold, as well as stations created by music lovers just like you!

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Flingo offers consumers free Internet Television from leading studios, TV networks, and video websites.

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Get local and international forecasts, climate trends, and the latest news from the world's weather authority.

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myTV offers Arabic content to Arab expatriate communities around the world. Enjoy over 25 live premium Arabic channels from LBC to Sky News Arabia to Rotana. 8,000 hours of Arabic movies such as Cash Flow and Fairuz classics, episodes of your favorite Arabic series like Bab El Hara, concerts for singers like Najwa Karam, George Wassouf and many more, an exclusive Ghawwar el Toshi collection along with a vast library of religious, political, and children shows.

* myTV is available in Canada, North and South America and Australia, soon in Africa and Europe

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YuppTV with 100+ channels enables Indian expatriate communities to watch Ethnic Indian premium TV channels LIVE and VOD on multiple Internet enabled devices.

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A personalized on-demand music service to listen to 7 million tracks anytime, anywhere and one of the most popular Internet and mobile music offerings in Europe.

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XOS College Sports offers college sports fans multi-sport, multi-conference access to full games and historic documentaries including many of the nation’s top schools and teams. Free access to a large collection of rare content, championship season highlights and select full games past and present. Additional content can be ordered at XOSSports.com.

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WatchMojo produces original video programming on the people, places and things that people are passionate about, covering the Automotive, Business, Education, Fashion, Film, Food, Health, Music, Parenting, Politics & Economy, Space, Sports, Science, Technology, Travel and Video Game categories.

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The Comedy Time Network launched as the comedy channel for Sprint TV and MobiTV in July, 2004 and has since expanded on to all major carrier decks as well as cable/satellite/IP television, broadband video and traditional media. It is a market leader in the production and distribution of short-form comedy programming.

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Skitter TV is an IP TV service made available to consumers through regional service providers (Tier 2 and Tier 3 Telcos). Users can get LIVE HD level quality video streamed directly to their WD TV. EPG guide allows users to see current and future shows available in their region, similar to what a user would get if they subscribed to traditional cable TV.

* Only available in the following US cities: Portland, San Antonio and Austin.

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SnagFilms offers a broad collection of great independent movies on demand, for free – films that entertain and inform, engage and inspire, and satisfy every taste.

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The SEC Digital Network offers college sports fans access to the largest library of multi-sport full games and original programming from the most dominant and exciting collegiate sports conference. Watch FREE daily programming including SEC Today, Countdown to Kickoff, Game Day Central, and weekly coaches teleconferences, and select full games. Additional content can be ordered at SECOnDemand.com.

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Shoot it. Share it.

Entertainment is happening all around you. Now you can capture every moment of it and send it to your HDTV. Take a photo or video clip with your smartphone or tablet and upload it directly to the built-in hard drive on your WD TV Live Hub media center. When you get home, you have new files waiting for you so you can enjoy them on your HDTV.

You can provide up to 40 phones or tablets with access to your WD TV Live Hub media center. So you can send photos and videos to a friend through their WD TV Live Hub for immediate enjoyment in the comfort of their own living room while you're out and about.


Show off all your photos with your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android smartphone, or Android tablet.

  • Get quick access to all the photos stored on your WD TV Live Hub media center and show them off with your smartphone or tablet.
  • Photos are automatically optimized for perfect viewing on your mobile device.
  • Your photos are private, safe and secure on your media center or network drive at home. No need to spend time and money on an online photo service.

  • Folder view

    Search by date

    Keyword search

    Post a photo
    to Facebook

    All your photos at your fingertips.


    When viewing your photos on your smartphone or tablet, WD Photos offers a variety of features, including:

    • Pinch and zoom in on photos to view every detail.
    • Instantly post photos to Facebook®.
    • Create a slideshow with transitions to create digital art.
    • Access previously viewed photos even when you're offline.
    • View your photos all at once or filter them by folder or album.
    • Search by file name, folder name, or date using the built-in search options.
    • E-mail a photo to friend.
    • Assign a photo to a contact.
    • Add a photo to the Camera Roll.
    • Supports iOS4 so you can listen to music as you view your photos.

    Requirements:

  • You need a Western Digital WD TV Live Hub media center.
  • You must have an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad with iOS 3.1 or later or an Android device with OS 2.1 or later.
  • You must register with WD's secure remote access service which is included free with all our network drives.
  • Turn your smartphone into the ultimate remote control.

    Take control of your WD TV Live Hub experience with the tap of a soft key or swipe of a finger. Whether it's your personal media or Internet entertainment and games, the WD TV Remote app allows you to control it all with one-touch from your smartphone.

    Search for hit movies and TV show episodes using your smartphone keyboard for multi-lingual text input. Use the gesture pad for quick and easy navigation to your personal media and Internet entertainment. Hosting game night? Enjoy multiplayer games with friends and family using multiple mobile devices connected to your network.

    *Service availability varies by country/region.

    Movie night just got better.

    Control your WD TV Live Hub media center from anywhere in your house using your mobile device. Simply launch the WD TV Remote app and it will automatically connect to your WD TV Live Hub through your wireless network, instantly turning your smartphone into a WD TV remote control. Access your Netflix® or Hulu Plus™ account right from your iPhone® and watch your favorite TV shows and movies on your HDTV.*

    Languages Supported: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Russian, Portuguese.

    * Hulu Plus subscription required (US only).
    Netflix is available in certain countries. Unlimited membership required. More information at www.netflix.com.
    WD TV Remote app may not work with all online services. For more information, please go to the WD Support site and refer to knowledge base article 8688.

    Requirements:

  • You need a WD TV Live Hub with firmware 3.01.19 or later.
  • You must have an iPhone, iPod touch®, or iPad® running iOS 4.0 or higher, or an Android device with OS 2.1 or higher.
  • Your mobile device must be connected to the same wireless network as your WD TV Live Hub (Your media player may be connected to your network via Ethernet port or wirelessly).




  • Windows 8 Play To and WD TV media players make it easy to stream your favorite movies, music, videos and photos stored on your PC to any TV in your house. Don't limit your media experience to a small computer screen. With the Windows 8 Play To feature and WD TV media players, you can enjoy your media library on the biggest screen in your house.

    Plug it in.

    Connect your WD TV Live or WD TV Live Hub to any TV in your home.

    Connect to your home network.

    Once connected to your TV, connect your WD TV media player to your home network. Connect wirelessly with your WD TV Live or connect your WD TV Live Hub using the Ethernet port.

    Play to your TV.

    On your Windows 8 PC or Tablet
    Select the music, video or photo that you want to stream to your TV. While the media file is playing, tap the Devices Charm on the right of the screen and select the WD TV media player that you would like to stream to.

    From your Windows 8 Desktop
    Select the media file(s) you want to stream to your TV. Right-click the selected file(s), point to Play To and select the WD TV media player that you would like to stream to. In the Play To dialog box, use the playback controls to play, pause or stop the media stream, and to change to the next or previous item in the list.

     


    For more information about using Play To in Windows 8, click here.

    Requirements:

    You need a WD TV Live with firmware 1.12.14 or later
    or a WD TV Live Hub with firmware 3.08.14 or later.

     




    Click Model # for Full Specs.
     Model #InterfaceCapacityVideo Format 
    WDBABZ0020BBKGigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, HDMI, Composite A/V, Component video, Optical audio2 TBNTSC
    WDBACA0020BBKGigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, HDMI, Composite A/V, Component video, Optical audio2 TBPAL
    WDBACA0010BBKGigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, HDMI, Composite A/V, Component video, Optical audio1 TBPAL
    WDBABZ0010BBKGigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, HDMI, Composite A/V, Component video, Optical audio1 TBNTSC
    WDBACA5000ABKGigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, HDMI, Composite A/V, Component video, Optical audio500 GBPAL
    WDBABZ5000ABKGigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, HDMI, Composite A/V, Component video, Optical audio500 GBNTSC

     

    File Formats Supported
    Video - AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG1/2/4), MPG/MPEG, VOB, MKV (h.264, x.264, AVC, MPEG1/2/4, VC-1), TS/TP/M2T (MPEG1/2/4, AVC, VC-1), MP4/MOV (MPEG4, h.264), M2TS, WMV9, FLV (h.264) 
    Photo - JPEG, GIF, TIF/TIFF, BMP, PNG
    Audio - MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, AIF/AIFF, OGG, Dolby Digital, DTS
    Playlist - PLS, M3U, WPL
    Subtitle - SRT, ASS, SSA, SUB, SMI 

    Note:
    • MPEG2 MP@HL up to 1920x1080p24, 1920x1080i30 or 1280x720p60 resolution.
    • MPEG4.2 ASP@L5 up to 1280x720p30 resolution and no support for global motion compensation.
    • WMV9/VC-1 MP@HL up to 1280x720p60 or 1920x1080p24 resolution. VC-1 AP@L3 up to 1920x1080i30, 1920x1080p24 or 1280x720p60 resolution.
    • H.264 BP@L3 up to 720x480p30 or 720x576p25 resolution.
    • H.264 MP@L4.1 and HP@4.1 up to 1920x1080p24, 1920x1080i30, or 1280x720p60 resolution.
    • An audio receiver is required for multi-channel surround sound digital output.
    • Compressed RGB JPEG formats only and progressive JPEG up to 2048x2048.
    • Single layer TIFF files only.
    • Uncompressed BMP only.
    • For details, please refer to the user manual.
    File Formats Not Supported
    Does not support protected premium content such as movies or music from the iTunes Store, Movielink, Amazon Unbox, and Vongo

    System Requirements

    • Standard or high definition television with HDMI or composite video connections. Cables not included.
    • Home network and broadband connectivity for online services.

    Package Contents

    • Media Center: media player with built-in hard drive
    • Remote control with batteries
    • AC adapter
    • Quick Install Guide

    Mouse over each icon to see how it was calculated.

    Examples of the number of photos, songs, videos and any other files that can be stored on a hard drive are provided for illustrative purposes only. Your results will vary based on file size and format, settings, features, software and other factors.

    As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, megabit per second (Mb/s) = one million bits per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second.




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