Western Digital TV Media Player - WDBYMN0000NBK

So this is my 5th media player and the most expensive. The first one broke after a year of good service but had been discontinued, so there was no replacement available. The 2nd didn't work. The third didn't work. The 4th worked well enough but didn't give me what I specifically needed and this is important to me: As I am hard of hearing in the human speech range (too much Deep Purple at #11), no matter which center channel I use in my surround system (and I've tried some very good ones), when I'm watching movies the dialogue sounds muddy to me. However, the garbage speakers in my big screen TV actually clear up the dialogue enough, so if I route the sound through my 5.1 receiver and my TV at the same time, I can understand speech and still get surround sound plus butt-kicking bass out of my powered sub. But most media players can't do this. It's one or the other. Before buying this unit I spoke to a tech at WD and he assured me this player could play both audio playback systems at the same time. And it does so beautifully. I route an audio optical cable from the player to my 5.1 receiver (I needed a splitter because of my blu ray player but that was no big deal) and an HDMI cable for video and audio from the player to my TV and I'm extremely happy with the results. The receiver more than overwhelms all audio from the TV except dialogue, which is perfect and finding a sonic balance between them was a snap. For source material, I'm using flash drives with movies, which I patch into the handy front USB port. The remote is a delight. There is a minimum of buttons (thank goodness) and those are logically laid out. The remote has the feel of hard rubber, so it's easier to hold and operate than any other remote I own. Some reviews of this unit complain about the long wait time from pushing a button on the remote to getting something to happen but I didn't find that to be the case at all. There is way more to this unit than playing movies from flash drives and, because of my specific user needs, it's unlikely that I'll ever need it. The online user manual, for example, has 244 pages and I used maybe 3 to get a quick handle on playing movies from a flash drive, which is total simplicity. Like, I went through the setup guide and there was nothing I needed to adjust. How nice is that? Maybe if I used the WD TV Media Player for more than I do, I might find fault with it. But for my needs, it's 5 stars.