Sunday, April 7, 2013

Home Entertainment On-The-Go!


My husband’s a techie, and I usually roll my eyes at the latest gadget he tells me about. But this one, I actually saw the use for immediately and it has made it so easy to bring our family entertainment with us wherever we go!

It’s called the WD TV Live Plus and it connects to any TV with an HDMI Cable.  We keep it in the family room and we can view all the movies we have digital copies of and home movies that we would otherwise have to huddle around the computer to watch. It can also connect to the Internet over your home Wi-Fi and has apps for you to watch Netflix movies, Hulu Plus shows,  YouTube videos, and many more.

When we go on vacation, we simply take it with us and plug it up to the TV in the hotel. If you have an entertainment system in your car, SUV, or minivan, it may be able to hook up to that system too. We play our movie collection on road trips and keep the kids entertained during those long drives.  (you know how long they can seem!)

We no longer have to take a giant binder full of DVD’s with us in hopes that the hotel will have a DVD player!


Here’s what you need to buy:
1.     One WD TV Live Plus
2.     One HDMI Cable
3.     One small portable hard drive to put your digital movies on

Here’s what you need to do:
1.     Get your Discs turned into Digital Files and put them on your hard drive.
a.     Follow this quick tutorial to convert your personal DVD’s or Blu-Ray Discs to digital files.
2.     Plug the WD TV Live Plus to the TV
3.     Plug the hard drive into your WD TV Live Plus
4.     ENJOY!
Optional: Connect the WD TV Live Plus to Wi-Fi to watch Netflix, YouTube, etc.…

We never have to worry about scratched DVD’s or bulky binder’s when we’re travelling. 

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