Skip rewind

[#1]

Rewind in WD is slow. Should be an option 30, 60 and 90 second skip on remote control.

[#2]

Let me explain why we need this...

•  we are watching a movie and then  a boring scene came up to skip that scene quickly we need this option
• sometime while we are watching a movie with someone else and some kind of scene came up that we can't see together then we need to this option
• Most of the Bollywood movie is with song and sometime the songs really boring to me then we need this option....

Believe me while I saw this product on internet I thought the right/left navigation key is dedicated for this option and the up/down navigation key is dedicated for volume +/-

But I was so wrong. I found none of this option... I really hoping that WD will add both option to their next firmware..

Please click on that little KUDOS button if someone does something you like.

[#3]

I would like to add a +1 to this. I would suggest 30 seconds left/right and 5 minutes up/down as someone else suggested. My old XBMC player worked like this and you could flick through a file in no time . Would be a great inclusion.

[#4]

I just purchased wdlive tv and love the unit but can't believe it is missing such a basic feature. Considering returning the unit. Please implement this feature!!

[#5]

agreed!

and considering how long some intros are to movies/tv shows, quick skip is a great option, i havent seen a media player not do this

[#6]

Add my vote too. And make the forward/back times different.

Honestly, this might be a fatal flaw - I can see myself relegating this thing to the bin (or give to my brother or something) for this reason alone. It makes it almost unusable.

[#7]

Unfortunately it seems that no-one is listening. Without some means of jumping forward or backward the unit is almost worthless

[#8]

Please implement this. I can not understand how this feature is not available on this device. 

[#9]

I love this little feature. Though I personally prefer a 10sec jump rather than 30sec. A couple presses and it's just enough to get you past boring "20th Century Fox" intros, or long-a$$ sitcom intros (without jumping too far), or using it to rewind a tiny bit to catch what someone said.

It'd be great if WD can implement this. I would prefer a customizable option (10, 30, 60sec, etc), but anything is better than nothing. I've found myself a few times hitting the arrow keys on the remote, only to find they didn't do anything

[#10]

Looks like there are several threads raising this issue, one even dating back to Jan 2011? Can't believe so many people are interested in this, and still no fix - have I missed something?

I've just got my new WDTV and I'm testing it out as a replacement for my XBMC. So far I've been happy with everything, until today when I got distracted for a few seconds while watching a movie, and wanted to skip back about 20 seconds or so and see what I had just missed. With XBMC it's easy to do a small jump (about 10 seconds I guess?) or a big jump (about a couple minutes maybe?), using the arrow buttons.

Having only rewind/fast-forward function and not a basic skip feature - this is similar to the difference between what you get with a VCR vs a DVD player - or a tape player vs a CD player. I remember back in the early 1990s, the first time I realized you could skip with a CD - what a revelation! So having only fast-forward and rewind feels like going back to the stone ages.

I read about the feature to do the 5-minute skip forward thing. Firstly, 5 minutes is way too long to do anything useful. I'd much rather skip by 1 minute 5 times than to jump 5 minutes at a time. But really, the small skip by 10 or 20 seconds is much more useful most of the time - on XBMC I only use the big skip when I've lost the place where I had stopped watching a movie halfway through and want to quickly get back to it - but even then, I get to the general area, and then use the small skip forward/back to get to the precise point I want.

Secondly, the whole fast-forward and then press another button thing - well, I suppose it's clever, but not very obvious (like if I hand my remote control to my friend who isn't a WDTV expert); and it's more work than necessary, especially considering there seem to be other buttons completely unused while watching a video, such as the (more obvious) prev page/next page, or better yet, just using the up/down/left/right arrows the way we do with xbmc. I think this is what most people would expect as typical behavior.

Thirdly - when I read about the feature, and naturally said ok lets give it a try - and then realized I was stuck 5 minutes ahead in the video I was trying to watch, having missed a whole 5 minutes, and to my amazement, found that the opposite behavior (to skip back 5 minutes) did not appear to be implemented? Or maybe I have missed it somehow. Anyway so I ended up going back to stone-age VCR mode to rewind back 5 minutes and get back to where I had started.

I agree with the comments about the need for a "small" jump and a "big" jump - I would guess 15 seconds and 2 minutes might be good default values - but ideally it would be great if this could be customized. Also, personally I think it would be more useful for the "big" jump to actually be scaled to the size of the video - so maybe a "big" jump should be approximately 2% of the total size of the video? So for a typical 120-minute movie, this would give you a big jump of a bit over 2 minutes which could be ok. Again, customizable is best.

I agree with the guy who said the "fast forward" and "rewind" functions are actually really useless, just as I would say they are on DVD players. But I suppose most DVD players still have them, so some people must find them useful. Personally my ideal layout would be to use those arrow buttons at the top - the ones on the first row, which currently seem to jump to the completely next or previous video - as the "big" jump; and to use the arrows below them, which currently are the fast foward/rewind buttons - for the "small" jump; and also to use the arrow keys (up/down/left/right) also for small jumps, ideally all of configurable sizes.

I would use the "next page" and "prev page" for skipping to the prev/next video, if this is even something that is desirable. I know it's good for music albums, but not so much for a directory full of movies, in my opinion. I'd prefer to be able to turn that feature off completely in video mode, to be honest.

So far, this is the only thing I've found that I would call an obvious showstopper (i.e. like the difference between a VCR and a DVD player), and I'm a bit worried if nothing has been done about it after this many requests over the span of almost 2 years. I suppose I will go back to xbmc for now unless anyone has a workaround or something I'm not aware of? I would turn around and sell my WDTV or return it - but I think I might keep it around just for some of these file formats my xbmc can't play - but then again, I think if that's all I have it for, my xbox 360 can handle those for me when needed, and hmm I'm pretty sure it also has a proper skip forward/back function?

[#11]

Bought this yesterday, love it except for the fact that it's missing this feature... it has a ton of stuff that's really great, but this is almost a deal killer for me (costco takes returns thankfully...) and probably for many others... it's such basic functionality and every other player has it.

Will have to leave reviews on the purchasing sites warning of the lack.

Edited:  Left reviews on Best Buy, Amazon, Futureshop and Dell.  Included the link to the thread and community so that if this is addressed and is of concern to a purchaser, they can see if it's been fixed.  If I remember, I'll come back and post links to the reviews.

Review text:

Bought this yesterday and it seems really great.

However, it's missing one basic piece of navigation functionality - skip forward/backward.  It can only 'scan' FF/RW, choppily (like most players), and only up to 8x.  It's only skip forward is 10 minutes!  

If this is important to you to skip commercials, intros, boring sketches etc. then avoid.  If not, then I'd really recommend it.

They've been asked to fix the problem on their community site, so you might want to check to see if this has been addressed:
http://community.wdc.com/t5/ideas/v1/ideapage/blog-id/streaming_ideas/article-id/487/comment-id/1842
(community.wdc.com)

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As promised links:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/WD+-+WD+TV+Live+Media+Player/3558057.p?id=1218420285155&skuId=3558057&ky...

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2OK0S8WQB2V3A/ref=cm_cr_notf_fhv_prd

didn't get a confirmation from dell.