When in all **bleep** is the next update for the hub?

[dunkebaby]

Sorry excuse my french.  I've bookmarked the update page and i've been checking numerous times a day for what seems like an eternity.  Does anyone out there have any idea when its due to land.  (and when it does i hope to god its actually useable)

Dunk

[Tinwarble]

WD does not announce when future firmwares will be released.  It's one of the things of "you'll get it, when you get it".

Checking several time a day to see if a new version is out yet is probably a waste of your time, like the rest of us you'll just have to be patient.

[flhthemi]

Man, that's like watching water boil....it takes longer when you watch it.

[htfancub]

Yeah - I am rather surprised it is taking this long.  I have a WD TV Live Hub set to stereo because of all of the problems with passing 5.1 sound on certain file types.  Seems to me that having one of the core features of the unit broken would be an all hands fix ASAP.  But like the movie art image resolution problem we have had for the last what 6 firmware revs (?), this is apparently not the case.

However, keep in mind - this is somewhat par for the course.  I have a Popocorn Hour C-200 and during the development of the follow-on product (the C-300), we have not had a firmware update there since June of last year, despite being promised.

I wonder if WD is working something new?

[dfrench]

Since it has been a little over 2 months since the last update (which seems a little longer than the spacing between other past updates) I believe* that WD is busily trying to fix as many lingering bugs as possible while not introducing more. And perhaps in reaction to the hammering they've received on faulty releases, is doing more rigorous beta testing to assure positive results and community reception.

So I have high hopes** that the next release will be a big step forward with no steps backward.

"Not Richard"

* I believe in the tooth fairy too so your mileage may vary.

** I have unfulfilled high hopes for winning the lottery so your mileage may vary.

[ddayton]

I hope you are right, but a new "power system" would be nice too.

USB 3.0, a faster processor,  real Gb LAN connection, and wireless too,  add Amazon Prime, and a

Themes Library,  meta data manager built in via TonyPH12345, and an

Optional TV tuner, or connection to network tuners ( like Ceton or HDHomeRunPrime)

basically a HTPC,  in a box. =)    

the hub is almost there already, a few additions and improvements, and this thing could really rock

[dfrench]

You're talking about a new device. All I want is to have the *current* device work as expected/advertised before having development work abandoned in favor of yet another device (which based on past history will have its own set of birth pains).

"Not Richard"

[htfancub]

/agree.

[Ardvark]

Looks like the new update came out today

[UnhappyCamper]

ddayton: I am willing to bet that WD making "Newer, Better" Hardware will not change a thing for the better. They will simply introduce MORE problems. 

I am also willing to bet that a complete scrutinizing rewrite of some of the buggy code will yield better results than simply coming out with new hardware. 

Its the code that runs the hardware that needs fixing. Please dont wish for this and that, you might want to be careful what you wish for. 

WD is too busy adding useless "apps" but in reality they need to focus on many many other more important thing such as Audio/Video and Networking issues, and test the product under ALL circumstances, for ALL users, and make each function available without breaking another. Its already a mess and too complicated. 

I really hope companies like Sigma and Realtek start providing their OWN code to run underneath the WD created GUI and take full control of the hardware. I am not sure if this is already the case because I am not sure exactly how this SoC works.