I can’t stress enough just how refreshing it is to see Western Digital continue to improve the already solid WD TV hardware through (fairly) regular firmware updates – highly commendable. The latest release pre-release – 1.02.08 – includes the following:
Prerelease 1.02.08 (includes all previously released updates)
* Enhanced cover art, album art, and thumbnail support for media files and folders
* Additional subtitle languages and decoding support
* Improved media playback and navigation
* More audio formats for MKV container
* Fixed bugs reported by the WD TV user community
To download 1.02.08, head on over to the WD TV product update prerelease site. Keep in mind, there is a reason why it’s called a pre-release…as WD points out, “this is beta firmware so use it at your own risk. If you are not comfortable with this, please wait for the final version.”
I have just bought the unit and it plays .iso, VIDEO_TS, m4v, m4a etc.
Basically it does what I want it do to do….but it can do with improvements…
It needs some polish. When the Media Libary option is on and it scans the drive, all the individual vob files show up in the All Video list. Which is practice means that list becomes too long and I just use the Folder list view. So I just have the Media Libary off which means the search function is not available.
There is no DVD-like menu when in a video_ts and iso folders.