WD TV Prerelease 1.02.07 is out

http://rapidshare.com/files/22449117...02_07.zip.html
MD5: 372F8B186C345A8FA1860EFD879BF839

very nice, lets check it out, good job developers

Official linky still not worky worky.

WD should porbably think about setting up a bit-torrent (wow, ********** seems to be a banned word!) tracker for file distribution...

Is it still does not support Arabic Subtitle

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Anyone give us a link share, PLEASE!

Sure, but neither Firefox, nor Internet Explorer work.

I actually use OpenDNS also. Still does not work.


Thanks for the link, but I prefer to get the firmware from WD themselves. No offence.

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Official link works now (finally!). Downloading...

I just downloaded it from the usual pre-release site...no problem....

Is working now.If not try "save link as " in firefox.

I've placed that link on mediafire. It's a zip contain both needed files and the readme.

IT's rolling

no tweet for this release?

Well, as i said on another thread, but wil repeat here since this is the place to say it, here are some superficial notes regarding this new firmware:

Indeed there is now an option to have subs to auto appear or not. That's the end of that war!

Indeed one now can choose between thin outline and thick. Personally, i think the thin one is too thin for CRTs but the thick one is PERFECT (IMHO) for CRTs, therefore, we old timers are covered in that topic. OTOH, Plasmas and LCDs may find the thin one ok (or perhaps too thin... what do you say?) and the thick one too thick. I dunno.

I haven't yet tested the "hard drive spindown on WDTV power off".

Still, the problem with the flashing greek subs still exists (don't know what this is? check http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxd2szpjeu0 ), unfortunately. I can't comment on the 2 or 3 characters that were incorrectly rendered, cause i don't read or speak greek, and can't remember their shape!

I noticed a new bug today on .06, don't know if it was fixed in this new version (about to install it, wish me luck).

I tried to resume a movie, and it was all black, but the progress bar kept going. It was Buster Keaton in The Genearal, located at archive.org for free.

So I quit the movie, tried to play it again, and it said it was unsupported. Every other movie was being considered "unsupported" as well, when I decided to eject. Eject hung for a very long time, so I had to manually force it to shut off. After a rescan, losing my thumbnails and movie positions, I went back to the part of the movie where I left off by skipping ten-minute intervals. Scared the crap out of me.

I posted my opinion of 1.02.07 in other thread, let me copy it here

"My opinion about 1.02.07 subtitles: another little step forward. Great.
I still think that would be great if we could too toggle between a thin and a bold font, not only a thin one. Also, the bold outline is poor rendered, rude, IMHO. A little smoother would be perfect.

And one more thing: when I pause/play a movie, the info bar appears a few seconds... during that seconds I can't read the subtitles, the bar is over them. Do you think is necessary or appropriate that this bar appears after push play button?

Thank you!"

Where are my manners?

Thank you Scott, Guy and all at WD!

How rude of me to forget that!

23,97fps options don't Works fine.

poor quality image!

Scott, Guy and everyone at WD thanks a tonne for the awesome support in pumping out those fw updates. Great to see and its this top notch support (not being forgotten about) that makes me want to buy Western Digital again in the future. WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cool! I left on a trip with 1.02.03 on my WDTV (which stayed home) and now I'm home and can install 1.02.07 already

Thanks WD. And thanks especially for the many-times-requested features in 1.02.07. It should prove to many here that you're really listening to the community.

In return, the community promises to stop bitching and nagging.

Euhm. wait.

Somebody's whispering in my left ear that I can't make that promise. Oh well ;-)

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hehheh . well as long as its constructive criticism then I am sure WD will welcome it. Constructive criticism is what is needed and will see the firmware being a success in the longrun. Bitching and nagging and even abuse will not help and make things worse in my view. So far the community from what I have read has been pretty damn good. Sure there have been a few bugs and things are not perfect (they never are). But that is what it is all about trying to improve it step by step until it shines. It is great that people are putting in their 2 cents and giving ideas of what they want and what should be fixed. The crew at WD are doing a awesome job in my view with their approach and response to this. WELL DONE AGAIN!!!!!!

A huge relief to again be able to turn off (or on) subtitles (Thank you WD Guys), but.....it's still FULL TITLING or NONE. No FORCED SUBTITLES, displaying only when the characters speak in a foreign or alien language.

I hope this remains on the "It's being worked on list"

THANKS WD! This firmware seems to directly address community issues/suggestions. I love all these updates!