honestly I don’t have room on my tiny 120gb desktop hard drive drive to backup everything on my external HD to do a format, it would be a major time consuming pain in the **bleep** / logistical issue.
at this point, I’m just going to return the WD TV Live and buy a laptop with an HDMI output. Been thinking about doing that for a while. I tried 4 different video files that play flawlessly on my PC which the WD Live could not play or could not play audio for some reason (and they were .mkv’s and .x264’s!).
I previously had an WD TV, which served me well for over a year, shame it just died.
thanks for the help.