[8] Connects to Internet sites: YouTube (until 2017), Flickr, Live365, myTV, Pandora, Mediafly, Flingo, AccuWeather, Facebook or stream content from a home network.
In order to support Netflix, a macrovision enabled SoC was required (Sigma Designs SMP8654) and the Linux system is also now encrypted.
As of April 12, 2011,[13] Netflix Canada works on a WD Live TV Plus as long as the firmware has been upgraded to version 1.04.31_B or newer.
[14] Released in fall 2010,[15] this is a WD TV Live device with an internal 1 TB storage disk.
The WD TV Live has WiFi and a Sigma Designs SMP8670AD 700 MHz processor with 512 MB of DDR2 memory from Nanya.
Their exact words are: With the WD TV Play Media Player, we have changed the interface, while retaining all of the favorite features such as customizable themes, the ability to get content info from the internet, as well as the same built-in wireless capabilities used by the WD TV Live Streaming Media Player.
The remote control has been modified to fit the model's compact design, and we added specific buttons to the favorite Online Services for quick access to them.
This last version of the WDTV was finally discontinued by Western digital in June 2016 and is no longer available for sale through the manufacturer.
[19] The newest versions of the WD TV (Streaming Media) have encrypted firmware and there are efforts to continue hacking them.