Firmware Update: Western Digital TV HD Media Player 1.03.01

Western Digital has for its TV HD Media Player new firmware released with 1.03.01 as the version number; this is the same version as the previous prerelease. For more information about the TV HD Media Player, we refer you to our review and to the [Mediaplayer] WD TV – part 3 topic on our forum. The list of changes for version 1.03.01 looks like this:

New Features:

• Added support for video playlists functions which were limited to music files only
• Added support for the drive lock function on the new My Passport and My Book external storage devices

Resolved Issues:

• Resolved the language displayed as OFF when English was selected
• Resolved the “Contains” button displayed as “ContainsWWW” in the search function
• Resolved MKV audio which was out of sync with the video
• Resolved slow rendering of Greek subtitles in Greek character encoding mode
• Resolved disappearance of Korean subtitle during video playback
• Resolved missing characters from the Greek subtitle font
• Resolved playback issues with VC-1 codec in an MKV container
• Resolved gain being applied to audio output that resulted in signal clipping
• Resolved playlists playing audio tracks in alphabetical order by playing them in track order
• Resolved the appearance of tracks in alphabetical order by displaying them in track order
• Resolved the spacing issue seen in Korean subtitles during video playback