After months of inactivity a new release is finally out!  Remember, this is still a beta release.  Here’s whats new:
Resolved Issues:

Resolved issue where UI Language displayed as OFF when English is selected.
Resolved UI issue where “ContainsWWW” shows up in the search menu instead of “Contains”.
Resolved MKV audio/video sync issues.
Resolved issue where songs were displayed in [...]

Sorry, we’re a little late on this post.  WD has released 1.02.10 Beta to the public with a few bug fixes.  Here is a quick rundown:
“What’s New?
Prerelease 1.02.10 (includes all previously released updates)
* Greek subtitles render slowly in Greek character encoding mode; subs render properly now * Korean subtitles disappear during the video [...]

After about a month off, WD has finally released a new beta firmware today.  It hasn’t been officially added to their prerelease site(as of the time of typing this) but it is available on their server.  From the readme:
Bugs fixed in 1.02.08:
-Some characters still missing from Greek font
-VC-1 MKVs playback poorly
-Audio out of sync during [...]

If you head over to the WD TV website, you will see that 1.02.07 has been brought out of beta, sorta.  This version appears to be the same as the beta release with no new fixes, but that hasn’t been completely confirmed yet.  The release notes also are the same as when it was in [...]

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

Download here
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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 [...]

What you need:

USB Key formatted FAT or FAT32. The windows utility formats it fine
WDTV device (obviously)
A USB->Ethernet Adapter. For a list of compatible ones go here http://root.unknown.sk/wdtv/wiki/dok…ed_usb_devices I am using the Apple USB Ethernet Adapter which I bought from the Apple Store. Was easiest and quickest one for me to get.

Thanks to:
We will start [...]