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What I am asking is what do some of you have setup for using this media in your home? I have WDLive TV with an external hard drive but I have to keep disconnecting the hard drive and connecting it to my PC to copy over the tv shows, movies that I download. The reason I have to do this is because I have WDLive TV using wireless and it would take forever to copy from my PC to the external connected to the WD over the wireless network. I can't get a network cable to the unit because where it is. Is there some other way to do this. I find having to bring the hard drive over to the PC annoying.

I have a NetGear NAS and a miniature PC running OpenElec (contains XBMC).

Is there a good site that would explain how to set this up?

The OpenElec site.

Do you connect the mini pc to your home theatre receiver? How do you navigate with it? Do you use a remote of some sort? I would like to navigate with my ipad. Is this possible?

The mini-PC came with a remote and it has an hdmi outlet.
But I'm using a fancy programmable Logitech remote.
(I did need to tweak XBMC infra-red codes configuration quite a bit).
Don't know about control-by-iPad.

If all you care about is not having to move around the external hd, just connect that wd thing to your network using powerlan hardware (this stuff) instead of wifi.

Yeah, I have been looking at that option as well but I am kind of interested in setting up a pc server and using XBMC. It looks really nice. Does it play all the formats like WD does?

I also have the WDtv Live. I have it hardwired to my network. I have all my content on a Ubuntu NAS. I stream it over the network to the WD and it works great. I have replaced the stock WDTV firmware with wdlxtv. I then use psycho4 as an on screen display. I like psycho4 on screen display better because it has larger fonts and it's easy to read. The NAS shares are automatically mounted at startup of the WDTV. I like the WDTV because it plays so many file formats.

I don't think I can use the wdlxtv firmware because my wdtv live is the 3rd generation and on the list for unsupported devices. I have finally hard wired my WDTV on the weekend and I am working on putting together a media server to run xbmc. As per my previous question....does XBMC play all the formats like WDTV does?

I do have an older WDTV Live Plus that seems to be on the list of supported units. I might try this also just to see what it offers.

Also take a look at Plex Media Server / Client. It's a little different mind set than XBMC. It's what I use, and it's nice that I can easily share my media out to friends/family or I can watch what's on my server at home via my phone.

Very interesting indeed! Thanks for the inputs.