Some of you might have missed it but since version 0.5.1 of b-rad’s WDLxTV firmware it is very easy to change the background image and screensaver. How cool is that! Notes from the changelog:
* Custom background and screen saver images can be supplied at boot
* requires welcome_background_bg.jpg (maxsize=524288) or
screen_saver.png to exist on a device attached [...]

Western Digital’s latest beta has arrived, only a few days after the last beta, with a few minor fixes.  Fixed items and additions:

Added option to toggle subtitle default to ‘On’ or ‘Off’
Added subtitle outline thickness selection
Added hard drive spindown on WDTV power off

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Okay it’s been a while since the last front page article was published but we’ve been working on the background to add website functionality and creating a solid base for this community. As you might have seen on the forums or downloads page WD hasn’t been sitting still either. Beta firmware version 1.02.07 is hot [...]

Wow, it really seems b-rad.cc is going faster than lightning! He sure is doing a lot of great work for the WD TV community! Today he wrote the third article in a three part tutorial on how to setup rtorrent + wtorrent on your WD TV HD mediaplayer. If you enjoy the work he does, [...]

Following the official WD TV new pre-release B-rad released a new version of his WDLXTV firmware. More info at http://b-rad.cc
Changelog WDLXTV
0.4.3.1
* NFS/CIFS/XFS/reiserFS mounting fixed.
0.4.3
* now based on 1.02.03 !!
* screen_saver shrunken for size

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Western Digital has released a new pre-release beta firmware version. No official release notes to be found yet but these are some quick notes:

Windows-1250 Central European encoding added
Subtitle rendering quality improved
AVI loading time improved
Fixed an issue where thumbnails weren’t loading sometimes
Thumbnail loading times improved

Download here

This is a prerelease version of the firmware. Feel free [...]

The WD TVC.com movie thumbnail generator is updated. In the old version some movies were unable to find. From now on you have some options to choose from so you will find your movie poster 99% of the times. Try searching imdb ID or movie title first, if that doesn’t give any results try enabling [...]

B-rad released new versions of both his WDLXTV firmware as the DVDMOD. More info at http://b-rad.cc
Changelog WDLXTV
0.4.2
* fixed OSD sluggishness
* corrected freezing setup->about screen
0.4.1
* all OSD images are back to original size
* once again removed fsck_hfs for the space (download core-extras.app.bin)
* OSD tweaks
DVD mod Changelog:
0.4.1
* 1.02.00_DVDMOD now available
* Pennhaven’s screen saver image included on 1.01.02 [...]

This is a short tutorial on how to setup your WD TV HD to use with a wifi usb adapter. If u want wifi to start on boot, get a wifi usb adapter based on the following chipsets:

Zydas 1201 (11b)
Zydas 1211/1211b
RaLink 2870
RaLink rt73
Atheros Otus

download brad.cc’s WDLXTV firmware
download zorander’s experimental pack [...]

As promised, the download section is updated. All official firmware versions are listed. Might be usefull if you want to go back to 1.01.02. Check it out now or stay tuned. More to come!
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