Western Digital has introduced the WD TV Live Hub media center, a Full-HD 1080p media player with a 1 terabyte (TB) built-in network hard drive that gives users the freedom to play all their personal media on any screen in the home.

The WD TV Live Hub media center brings new experiences to the WD TV family, which includes interacting with personal Facebook communities.

WD TV Live Hub plays a wide variety of media file types, including popular Full-HD 1080p video formats such as .mkv, .mp4 and .mov. The integrated, compact and quiet 1 TB hard drive enables users to centralize their digital media from multiple sources for smooth, glitch-free playback of even the highest resolution videos.

WD TV Live Hub also is a media server: the HD video, music and photos can be streamed from the onboard hard drive to any DLNA/UPnP-compatible TV or multimedia device, anywhere in the connected home, including WD TV  Live HD media player, connected TV’s, Blu-ray Disc players, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.

Users also can stream content from their WD TV Live Hub to iPads, iPhones or Android smartphones using third-party applications. 

“The modern Indian household has a PC, a laptop, portable drives, a camcorder, broadband and a large amount of digital content stored on various other devices. A versatile, easy-to-use media player that allows them to stream personal or online content from other devices in their home can be an instant hit. That’s exactly what the WD TV Live Hub media center delivers”, said Sushil Bandi, Country Manager - India, Western Digital.