This firmware update has been a disappointment for me. I now have several annoying faults that have developed:
When I enter the WD TV folder path I can no longer navigate through the Network Shares, but have to go through a whole new path to Media Servers. The method I have used for a year or so no longer works at all.
When I finally get through to the location (server) I want, the ‘thinking spinner’ just hangs for ages. I have since discovered that I can push the left or right arrow on my remote which stops the spinner and just forces it to enter the first folder location. What was it ‘waiting’ for?
each time I watch a movie or TV show now I can be assured that it will lose connection to the server at least once and be forced to go back and select media-server, folder, folder etc once again.
I am running this totally stock by the way - no mods at all. Just plugged into my network cable and TV.
I don’t understand why there are so many errors with each new firmware release on these things. It would be nice to just turn it on, get dropped into a predetermined default folder and just watch a movie when I want to instead of all these convoluted paths to get to a single folder on my server and these annoying errors. It is - to me at least - a really unprofessional approach by WD to mess with basic functionality like this with firmware updates that make changes to basic paths etc.
People buy these boxes to help them to watch movies and TV show, but how on earth could someone with no tech skills get around these faults if they are so complicated to fix. Even the ‘fix’ of rolling back is met with the stupid situation where the box still tries to force you to update the firmware again. To stop it, you must disable internet access to the update server or put up with a pointless reminder every time you turn on the unit.
This is supposed to be a plug and play media solution for retail users, but it has been a disappointment in my house (and many others after reading these forums).
I think it is time for WD to spend their technical bucks to just roll the functions back to a decent standard, stop the forced updates and give consumers something that works and do some decent BETA testing prior to releasing the firmware to make sue there are not these errors - or at least warn people on the packaging that ‘firmware updates WILL mess with your head sometime soon’.
I will be trying out the direct network connection to my Sony TV sometime soon and hopefully discover that I can disconnect the WD TV for good and just watch movies direct to the TV.
Sorry that my first post is a rant, but I feel really disappointed in this product and I have spent hours reading through your informative posts but have not really come out the other side with a decent solution.
Rec0n