WD TV Live - An unfinished product of poor quality - My review and explanations inside!

You probably should return your WDTV Live. I have a Mini, a WDTV live and a Patriot Box Office. Of the three the WDTV Live has the best quality video. Maybe yours is defective. Yes, the firmware could be better. These things take time. I have to think your freeware codecs weren’t all that great or you wouldn’t have purchased this. As for me I didn’t want a computer sitting in my living room with it’s fans and the constant required updates. There is always a price to be paid for adopting a new technology. If you can’t deal with that this would be a great time to bail out.