Did you have to modify the Win registry or do any of the other “hacks”?
Nope… just never installed the Sign-In Assistant, Live Essentials 2011, or any other Microsoft ■■■■ that I don’t want. Network Shares still work like a charm, despite the known Samba bug.
In fact, as soon as I found out about the Samba problem, I double-checked that Windoze wasn’t going to install any updates on me without my permission, so that my NetShares would continue working until WD could incorporate a patched, newer Samba into the FW.
Hmmm maybe the problem has to do with me being wireless. I don’t think I’ve installed Live Essentials or Sign-in Assistant either, but I’ll double check.
updated mine yesterday, haven’t done much testing as yet but everything seemed to be working ok. Had a bit of a problem with the “audio without HDMI” option but haven’t worked out why. I wonder if all the rants are more to do with the failure to reconfigure computers and WDTV Live or correctly updating, before going on a rant. I bought this cause I’ve had faith in WD and have many of their products, this one needs to work and I hope WD continue to make improvements and not destroy their reputation with me and likely thousands of others.
Keep the good work up, enjoying the product and hope to see futher improvements (soon).
Look. You called them LIARS (which is a very strong insult) and you are simply WRONG. They didn’t say they fixed every translation issue, so there is no lie.
Let’s agre on this: The German translation is ridiculous. I am happy to fix it for WD, they only have to send the word list/xml fies.
I have a problem with this update. the videos have become so smooth that movies look like tv series. something like a 120hz xmoothing effect. is there any way to turn this off?
Ok, I installed this firmware and I think everything is working more or less, even I didn’t test on the Network.
One thing I notice is that on 1080p24hz, the menus are pretty slow.
I don’t think anyone answered you…
Yes, the animations are slower because the framerate is slower. The animations are done one frame at a time, and if the frame rate is cut by more than half, then the animations will take about twice as long to complete. Not pretty, but that’s at least an explanation of WHY.