New Firmware - Version 1.04.18_B for the WD TV Live Plus (2/3/11) [ Edited ]

[Nehptis]

Bill I know you are not on the dev team. But this is like Toyota saying "we know our brakes don't work but we can't guarantee our recall will fix them. Playing video is what 99.9999 % of us do with this device. Wd should be working on nothing else for these Players than that. I did not buy a device for weather and flingo!

[Robos]

The WDTV Live have same bug with D-link DWA 131 Wifi adaptors not working. WD Plz Fix it!

[Bill_S]

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Nehptis wrote:

Bill I know you are not on the dev team. But this is like Toyota saying "we know our brakes don't work but we can't guarantee our recall will fix them. Playing video is what 99.9999 % of us do with this device. Wd should be working on nothing else for these Players than that. I did not buy a device for weather and flingo!

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You are absolutely right.  But all I'm saying is that you haven't been forgotten, and that they are working on it.  That's meant to let you know they haven't quit on the issue.

[hells7bells]

Proud to have the 1.02.21 version.

And it's all ok.

[wdtv-strath]

Release 1.04.18 (2/3/2011)

• Resolved USB FW update issue found in 1.04.17_B.
• Resolved issue with Airlink Golden 150 and D-link DWA 131 Wifi adaptors not working with 1.04.17_B.

Well I have an Asus USB-N10 that stopped working with 1.04.17_B and caused great inconvenience to have to downgrade.  It's the same Realtek chip as thr Airlink Golden 150.  Does that mean my card will work to?  If so, why is it not listed?  And if no, why are we not warned?

Western Digital is a company worth $5 billion dollars.  You guys can't hire an intern to test all the "supported" Wifi cards before new firmware is released?

I don't mean to be rude, but WTF.  Every time I've turned it on for months it nags me to update the firmware to a version I already know destroys all functionality for me (no network connection and it's a worthless brick). 

[richUK]

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wdtv-strath wrote:

Release 1.04.18 (2/3/2011)

• Resolved USB FW update issue found in 1.04.17_B.
• Resolved issue with Airlink Golden 150 and D-link DWA 131 Wifi adaptors not working with 1.04.17_B.

Well I have an Asus USB-N10 that stopped working with 1.04.17_B and caused great inconvenience to have to downgrade.  It's the same Realtek chip as thr Airlink Golden 150.  Does that mean my card will work to?  If so, why is it not listed?  And if no, why are we not warned?

Western Digital is a company worth $5 billion dollars.  You guys can't hire an intern to test all the "supported" Wifi cards before new firmware is released?

I don't mean to be rude, but WTF.  Every time I've turned it on for months it nags me to update the firmware to a version I already know destroys all functionality for me (no network connection and it's a worthless brick). 

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Have you tried the .18 firmware or not?  According to reports this adaptor does work.

http://community.wdc.com/t5/Firmware/Airlink-101-wireless-device-can-t-be-recognized-after-Firmware-...

[playerone]

Does this firmware play m2ts & ts?

[TonyPh12345]

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playerone wrote:

Does this firmware play m2ts & ts?

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They always have.

[jajrs]

I've just purchased The WD TV Live Plus and the first thing it wanted to do was upgrade the firmware to 1.04.18_B for which I clicked OK. I was watching a movie "VOB"  from a shared drive on my network when I lost sound and the video stream became choppy. I was able to finish watching my video by clicking over to the preview window and clicking on it to have it expand to full screen. I have an HDMI hookup and the sound must be set to stereo rather than digital to hear it when watching from the preview window. I'm very disappointed in this product since it failed out of the box, with the things that  I want to do with it. Netflix on the other hand works just fine and didn't stutter one bit. I bought this as an additional unit for video streaming  and watching Netflix on another TV in my house. I'm thinking of returning this product from where I purchased it and hooking my Seagate home theater live back up to that TV. I wasn't having any problems with that unit. I like Western Digital products, but you really shouldn't put one out that doesn't work right.

[TonyPh12345]

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jajrs wrote:

I've just purchased The WD TV Live Plus and the first thing it wanted to do was upgrade the firmware to 1.04.18_B for which I clicked OK. I was watching a movie "VOB"  from a shared drive on my network when I lost sound and the video stream became choppy. I was able to finish watching my video by clicking over to the preview window and clicking on it to have it expand to full screen. I have an HDMI hookup and the sound must be set to stereo rather than digital to hear it when watching from the preview window. I'm very disappointed in this product since it failed out of the box, with the things that  I want to do with it. Netflix on the other hand works just fine and didn't stutter one bit. I bought this as an additional unit for video streaming  and watching Netflix on another TV in my house. I'm thinking of returning this product from where I purchased it and hooking my Seagate home theater live back up to that TV. I wasn't having any problems with that unit. I like Western Digital products, but you really shouldn't put one out that doesn't work right.

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Roll it back to version 1.03.49 and you'll be fine.   This is a known issue in the latest versions.  WD is working on a fix.

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5800/