Thats great news .. update after only 1 month.

I switched on my WDTV Live and straight away there is a pop up mentioning new firmware is available. Nice!

Strange ... happened to mine too. How did the unit know there's new firmware? My wifi also not activated.

New firmware Release 1.05.04 (5/12/2011) is better than the previous one.

-Supports USB hard drives greater than 2TBs.
-Resolved user interface brightness issue introduced with last release.
-Resolved Hebrew subtitles not displaying correctly.
-Resolved several Facebook user interface issues.
-Resolved several Tunein user interface issues.
-Resolved arrow keys on keyboard do not work in Network Setup.
-Resolved Scrolling text is not smooth.

http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/updates/?family=wdfWDTV_Live

Found out that when we press on the option button for audio and subtitle selection, the selection wording is on the top left ... any1 seeing it too?

Thanks didn't realized the change

yea, last time on the center..nicely. now on the LEFT...

It looks kinda ugly to place at the wrong place and the audio & subtitle selection is not that responsive like before.

wondering when we can get multi-channel AAC to be decoded internally and relayed to the AV Receiver thru "digital passthrough" instead of being downmixed to 2-channel stereo .......

This post has been edited by terranova: May 15 2011, 12:56 AM

Ya lo, now very lag when selecting sub or audio

agree

yeah, we need this, AAC 5.1...

else im sticking to HD movies with DTS or AC3 only

yeah. laggy...

is it worth it?

why not straight using a pc system instead of this player?
is there any differences?

kindly note me, thanks

Hi all,
I wanna ask. Can WDTV Live Hub stream movies for free (not youtube), like AVATAR and 2012?

I'm putting this as consideration to go for either wdtv hub or AsiaHub which can stream movies for free.....thanks

already update latest firmware..some bug detect.and very annoying me,
some audio movie become mute.after choose 'stereo',playing like normal.
before this so far so good..hmmmm

The new firmware made the initial start-up take a much longer time. Some of .avi files couldn't start to play sometimes... switch off and on again... walla.. the file can play as normal. No issues with .mkv files. I hope they can improve on the virtual keyboard by adding '.com' and '.' button on the first lay-out.

Why I buy this tiny little thing instead of another HTPC to stream to my big TV? Coz it is tiny, no additional messy cables and easy to move around connecting to other tv's.... btw, I have NAS to stream contents to the tiny little thing.

Yep noticed latest firmware got some weird problems ....

1) startup doesnt work sometimes. Have to turn off and on
2) it keeps defaulting to composite video output even though I choose hdmi previously
3) wifi streaming has problems... lag or hang

Think i will go back to old firmware

wdtv (or any other media player) are just plug and play, small, minimal power consumption, etc..

for pc,
-it's big (or it's small but the price of it's casing alone can buy a nice media player already)
-need to do some homework for compatibility (graphic card/mother board can support tv out, hdmi, hd def,
ac3 output or got optical output, etc)
-startup time.. cannot beat media player
-unnecessaryly use higher power than media player
-etc

Well in short, wdtv is just plug and play with minimal wiring..

This post has been edited by zeese: May 19 2011, 10:36 AM

If your pc can be controlled via wifi and remote control, output 720p/1080p, by all means use your pc.

actually the latest 2 update no good!
Latest update bring in more bug than fixes!
WD! WTF happening!