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hi I'm ty Pendlebury and this is a review of the WD TV play if you're like me you're looking for a media player that will read from your library of music and videos as well as stream from services such as Netflix and Spotify while boxes such as the Roku HD and Apple TV are great they are both limited in their own ways if I was buying a new stream today I would probably get this new WD TV this is a $70 set-top player about the size of your wallet and it includes an impressive number of connections including HDMI USB Ethernet and wireless optical digital and an AV out the play offers a simplified user interface from previous players in the line doing away with the confusing colored buttons and upgrading to a better remote at the same time the interface is very configurable with my favorites page which lets you choose which of the 30 apps you want shortcuts to even the remote shortcuts can be changed as well the play is more versatile than most other players in its field due to a large number of supported download formats in addition to its streaming services the Slingbox act also comes in handy whether I was using DLNA or streaming Netflix I encountered no problems at all and playback was smooth and I also found it easy to navigate my media while the competing neo TV offers a laptop mirroring feature you need a recent Intel laptop to take advantage of it plus the player isn't as good for the price there isn't another player that can do the number of things the WD TV play can do and also do them quite as well this is ty Pendlebury for cnet.com