Amazon has the Western Digital WD TV Play Wi-Fi Media Player (WDBMBA0000NBK-HESN) for $65 with free shipping. Features built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi, 1080p output, Netflix, Hulu Plus, Spotify, and Blockbuster streaming, and supports most file formats including MKV, MP4, XVID, AVI, WMV, and MOV. Newegg also has it for the same price.
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They took out the best feature of the previous models! I have three WD TV Live+ devices, and I bought one WD SMP. The former support playing files off of network shares using SMB (and NFS with custom firmware). The SMP added NFS natively and support for more audio formats. It had a few negatives as well. But with this "Play" they took away support for playing files from network shares. You are back in DLNA hell. Pass.
They figure all the rodeo cowboy that bought the Roku and relies on PLEX to stream have no issues. They can lower the price and strip out this key feature.
I would take playing media files directly off network shares over DLNA streaming anyday.