WD TV Live will not let me play anything

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live & Live Plus
1

Had a WDTV for over a year now.  Use to play anything I threw at it.  Now it won’t play anything other than standard definition xvid files.  No matter what i do it justc ontinually shows the loading circle.

I want to try to upgrade the firmware, but when I go to setting->home there is no “new fimware found” button despite the firmware being on the root of my usb stick.

Is my wdtv borked?

2

Have you tried the suggested resets?

And are you sure you have the correct firmware?

3

What suggested resets?  Tried a factory reset if that’s what you meant.

As for firmware it’s 1.02.21

4

That’s pretty old firmware… You probably played a bad file and it’s locked it up. After you try to play a bad file, it’s a good bet that nothing will play after that until you unplug it.

5

Ok managed to upgrade firmware and now everything is back to normal.