Move over TiVo and Apple TV; there’s another box in town. Western Digital—you know them for portable hard drives and DVR expanders—today is launching WDTV, a recession-friendly $129 adapter box that takes media stored on a computer or portable USB drive and displays it on TV.

Quoting research from Parks Associates, Rader [Scott Rader, senior product manager of branded products at Western Digital] says less than 3-percent of broadband households currently connect a PC to a TV. At the same time, he said, 14-percent of consumers want to be able to do it but that existing solutions have either been too difficult or too expensive.

From the article, "Western Digital Launches WDTV Box for PC-to-TV Streaming" by Rebecca Day

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