A lot of people have asked me how to make their Western Digital WD TV Live work with Windows 7 Play To like I showed in this video.

 

In my demo, I was using pre-release firmware to enable pushing content from a Windows 7 PC to the WDTV Live (using the "Play To" feature of Windows 7). I know many of you want to do this as well, so I contacted Western Digital on the firmware release date and received the following update:

 

"We are working with Microsoft on providing a WD TV Live product update which provides compatibility with Windows 7 scenarios. Although I cannot comment on the exact date, it will be made available sometime in the near future."

 

I know we are providing them all possible resources to help them complete this work. In the mean time, WDTV Live works quite well with Windows 7 as a client device that pulls content from a Windows 7 PC using the local user interface of the WD TV.  In fact, I use it this way at home, but am really looking forward to the addition of Play To support.

 

Gary Schare

Windows Hardware Ecosystem Team

Microsoft