![]() So instead of having to turn to a laptop to run the file copy, you can do it right from the Live Plus. Neither the Live Plus nor the FAT+ use an attached drive to intelligently buffer streamed content to make up for unreliable and / or low speed network connections. I was able to use it to quickly copy content from the QNAP to an attached USB drive for testing without having to touch a cable! This would come in very handy for those of you whose only option is a wireless connection to your media player. I’ll also second Jim’s like of the Live Plus’ file management abilities. But I’ll also note that the Live Plus had no problem finding or accessing any of my computer or NAS-based shares. The same limitation holds, however, for the FAT+. So if one of your systems doesn’t show up, you’re out of luck. that there is no way to manually enter an IP address, share name or any other way to manually pull up a share. I’ll repeat Jim’s networking caveat since it’s very important, i.e. ![]() But the Live Plus has had no problem finding all my content, via either UPnP AV or plain ol’ network share browsing. Every time I’ve tried to access stored media with the FAT+ via its Media Servers option, the FAT+ can’t find any content to play. QNAP runs PacketVideo’s TwonkyMedia server, which the Live Plus seems to like working with more than the FAT+ does. Like Jim, I also use a QNAP NAS as my media server. On a more positive note, moving around the Live Plus’ screens seems more responsive than navigating the FAT+. I still somtimes press Back when I should press left-arrow, but I’m slowly getting the hang of things. But when in play functions, it seems you use the Back key. When navigating around the home menu screens, you use the left-arrow key to step back in the menu tree. Well, the Live Plus’ remote granted my wish…sometimes. I crabbed in the FAT+ review how I prefer using the left-arrow key to step back up a function tree, since I’ve been trained on DirecTV remotes. First, though, in the be-careful-what-you-wish-for category, I have to mention WD’s confusing Back and left-arrow button functions. Seagate’s and think I like WD’s more, for reasons that I’ll get to shortly. But I quickly got used to WD’s way of doing things vs. ![]() My first impression of WD’s user interface was that I didn’t like it. ![]()
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