Digital media players

I'm planning to write a bit about digital media players in the near future.

Recently, I played with a WD TV HD Live player, and it was nice, but I didn't like it as much as the Asus O!play Air that I've been using for a while. The WD was nice, but in the end, it lacked just a few key features that were deal-breakers for me. Specifically, I couldn't get it to send Dolby Digital to my receiver
in bitstream format... I just couldn't find an option to change that, so I couldn't get it to play 5.1 surround over HDMI.

Second, I couldn't just plug in the HDMI jack and have it work (fault of the TV, I'm sure) and then unplug it, take to to the bedroom tv at night and plug it in as composite... I had to go into the menus and reconfigure it when I moved it... Something my wife ain't gonna do ;)

Lastly, it can do YouTube, but cant follow my YouTube subscriptions properly, making YouTube useless unless you like to watch totally random stuff. Personally, I like following certain sportscasters, and I just wan to find their most recent posts, but I just can't do it.

The O!play Air by Asus can do all of that except the YouTube thing, but I've been reading that they are adding it with a firmware update... That, and I can just use PlayOn for YouTube anyway.

More info later when I can post again!

- Posted on the run (iPhone)