U guys do know that spindown does not equal to shut down right? Most drives will still have their LED status ON even after the drive have spun down. The important thing is that the drive HAS spun down. LED status is irrelevant.

Yup, the LED on my WD passport is "on", but drive doesn't spin. Before the latest firmware update, you can still feel it "buzzing" eventhough player is already "off".

Media Library - All Media files appear in one list regardless of which folder they are in.

Folder View - Media files appear in folders.

I prefer to turn Media Library off so that all the files appear in folders - easier to navigate.

OK then I need to turn off Library view. 
Dont think I need them   Coz i usually navigate via folder.

At this price, I double agreed on the features & performances offered also.
Just buy it if you need a HD capable media player with limited budget.

Cheapest but pretty good. Picture better than Dvico 4100 (after doing side by side comparison). For sound, no complaints but perhaps dvico has more features for HD sound. If you look at AVS forum, this seems to be the hottest HD Media player over in the US as well.

Forgot to add...WDTV and DVICO...apple and pear...
hehe

somehow i came across a source from insider that says there will be a WDTV "v2" end of this year scheduled while I was planning to buy a WDTV.  There are currently testing the player at early stage.

yes..one of my HDMI cable also got "Mode not supported" message, while other HDMI cable ok.

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Added on May 8, 2009, 10:25 amthinking to archive my old family DVD into an image file and play it over WD HDTV, any recommendation for the software? prefer the software can create the DVD menu also.

Thanks!

I just bought my unit a few days back, I'm still exploring it and is the highlighted sentence refers to d display pictures on the folders? There is a function whereby v can browse the movies by thumbnails.. is there any special file format that I should put on the pictures? The pictures i managed to get are approximately 25kb. Currently I just modify the folder options of the files whereby I set it to thumbnail views with selected pictures but it still doesn't show in d thumbnail mode. Thanks in advance. 

For Folder Thumbnails:
Music:
1. Display folder.JPG (the image file must be named “folder.JPG” or thumbnail will not function)
2. If no folder.JPG file is found, display the first album art image (.MP3 with embedded..JPG)
3. If no album art is available, display the first .JPG in the folder
Photo:
1. Display folder.JPG
2. If no folder.JPG file is found, display the first photo in the folder
Video:
1. Display folder.JPG
2. If no folder.JPG file is found, display the first cover art (.MP4 with embedded .JPG)
3. If no cover art is available, display the first photo in the same folder as the video to be played
For File Thumbnails:
Music:
1. Display album art (.MP3 file with embedded .JPG)
2. If no album art is available, display the image file with the same name as the audio file to be played. (for
example, song.wav will be associated with song.JPG)
Photo:
1. Display thumbnail
Video:
1. Display .MP4 with embedded .JPG
2. Display image file associated with the video file to be played (for example video.mkv will be associated
with video.JPG)

nordingh & eye, thanks so much for the input.. !    Cant wait to go home and try it out. I have mostly .avi's, a few mkv;s only. Hope the instruction applies. 

hi all, need help here..anyone know where 2 find a replacement remote 4 d wdtv?

i think so..the batteries were leaking n it's not working ever since.

nordingh & eye, I did according to ur instructions and it when all well! Yadaa!

Not a tech question but want to buy a wdtv but not sure where I can do a cash and carry ? Is there a shop somewhere in LYN or preferably near sunway ?
TIA

hey guys, check this out. WD has made a site to accept feature suggestions for their WD TV product. we can request some features to be made in future.

http://wdtv.uservoice.com/pages/17442-general

I always have this problem (even when just bought since last year) -

My WDTV is connected using HDMI to my Plasma TV. When I turn them both on, sometimes (many times) I get the "no-sync detected" signal. No sync on my TV means like no connection or no video signal coming in.

Alot of times when I first turn it on, I can see the WD logo then poof, goes to "no sync". I have to un-cucuk the HDMI cable, on/off WDTV or TV, do a few things before I can get everything working again.

Sometimes I would get vertical lines spaces evenly apart across the screen also and solved by doing the same thing as above.

My HDMI cable is by Giraffe. I cant try another cable cause my TV is hung on the wall and I cant get another cable in unless someone helps me. Unfortunately my TV is zaman dulu wan so no extra HDMI port at the front or side.

It looks like my WDTV sometimes cant auto detect my connection. I had this problem the day I bought it (read the beginning pages). I didnt get it repair because the problem is intermittent. I dont want to send it back unless it totally wont work.

Anyone else encounter this problem?

i read somewhere mentioning that the WD hdmi port is a little deep, so some hdmi cable the pins maybe barely touching, reason for the sometimes ok sometimes not ok
some people shave the hdmi cable rubber off so that the cable con go in further - im sure u dun want to do that on an expensive hdmi cable

I think it is normal. Don't worry about it. Don't be too anxious. The WDTV requires a small amount of time to read the harddisk. The moment you on your lcd & the wdtv, leave them be for a few moments. Don't fiddle with yr remote. Hehe!!

wheee wheet ... firmware 1.02.08 is out ... pre-release beta  .. try at yr own risk ya :

http://support.wdc.com/download/wdtv...FW_1_02_08.zip

Quote:
This is a prerelease version of the firmware. Feel free to install it but be aware this is beta firmware so use it at your own risk. If you are not comfortable with this, please wait for the final version.

Bugs fixed in 1.02.08:
-Some characters still missing from Greek font
-VC-1 MKVs playback poorly
-Audio out of sync during MKV playback
-10 Minute FF and REV doesn't work during MKV playback
-Audio clipping issues

Why can't they make the player able to jump to specific time of the movie? Instead of keeping FF. Damn troublesome

hi guys, did you guys notice a thread about the WDTV cover art posted by a member? Its gone now, was thinking of downloading it

thanks, issit possible to make it to folder cover art?

i thought only the movies got cover art?