We are pleased to offer another limited public beta WD TV product update to make your viewing experience better than ever. We are limiting this to the first few hundred people who download it. Feel free to install it, but be aware this is beta firmware that we are still testing, so use it at your own risk.
Please post your experiences to this thread. Do not contact customer support for issues found with this firmware.
Important Update: Limited Public Beta is no longer available. The Beta page will stay up for those that need to roll back to the previous firmware version.
You have obviously not done this before otherwise you would know not to attempt to download anything from WD until at least an hour after the link is posted :wink:
I DL this firmware but I won’t install it since I already see problems.
I am remaining with the B-Rad firmware that solved the HDMI “auto resolution” issues and also is keeping the audio files intact (HDCD signal is not mangled at the SPDIF output like in the betas).
Maybe WD should look into paying B-Rad and other two contributors and adopt that firmware as official
And yes, they are still using the “old” 1.02.24 audio codec. All the “new” betas did something with the audio flac files and are corrupting them in the digital domain.
Also, their firmware resets the HDMI connection between the Menu and movies - in this way the movies are played on their native resolution, not upscaled by the WDTV. Upscaling or whatnot is left for the TV to handle - this feature it was requested by many a long time ago.
Also the network connection it is waaaay faster (when I turn on the WDTV). It did take up to one minute before to find the folders/files, now it is in the seconds range.
Good to know, SoNic… Thanks for that. I’m running B-RAD on one of my Lives, but it’s one I seldom use, so I haven’t noticed much of a difference outside the UI.
