Have to disagree with Dead Eye. Have my system since last July. What was delivered was BARELY usable and packed solid with bugs. However, I saw improvement with each firmware release up to 1010. The next release turned my system into a brick. Subsequent releases have not significantly improved the situation.
As far as the poster wall goes, it worked pretty well in 1010. I don't understand why it is so thoroughly broken in subsequent releases.
As far as playback is concerned, there are still many problems. DVD's come up with subtitles enabled randomly regardless of settings. Blu-ray menus are problematic. Sometimes they work, sometimes they just freeze up the unit. In some cases, the chapter marker plays back through the entire movie and cannot be turned off. Frequently, introductory content (stuff before the main movie) will start to play then "go blank" for several seconds before the video starts playing again. Perhaps this is still better than some other media servers out there, but don't consider that high quality.
I don't know what the problem with DVDFAB is, but it the first time I have seem firmware releases actually take away functionality and get worse over time.There are problems that have been reported since back last September that are still not fixed.
I reverted my unit back to 1010, since that was the last stable, mostly functional release. I agree that the unit has great potential, but without good firmware, even the best hardware becomes pretty useless, I sincerely hope that a firmware release comes along that actually fixes the problems with the unit, but until I see that, I certainly cannot recommend the device to anyone.
tbrown25
I think the biggest improvement to start with would be to ditch the cloud and go back to the settings of 1010 and have it locally, at least this way you had way better control overthe poster wall and how it worked.
I had no issues up to 1010 with it, since every fw update from then my TV series are a right mess with everything all over the place, 1010 it put automatically everything in order etc etc.
I have films that had the correct image and info showing entirely different things and when you try and alter the info it either doesnt find the corret info or just sits there with the spinningwheel for an eternity.
I cant understand why they dont listen either, why the cloud? Not everyone has a super fast connection, locally stored was/is way better.
Maybe they want to see what we have on our players???? seems strange to me why it has to be cloud based!!!!!!
Who is actually doing the fw updates? as it would seem that it could be out of house, like the issues are getting passed over and not getting looked at in an actual situation, just trying to fix them with someone saying this or that doesnt work.
The holidays and office meeting senario said everything, when you would think they would be doing the upmost to sort everyones issues they just shut up shop and leave us all waiting.
Other player forums I look at seem to get updated a lot more often than we do if there are issues, here it seems to be a "we will sort it one day" attitude.
I have an old Mede8er player thats way better at scraping metadata etc, out of the 1000's of films ive had on that I think i have only had to adjust any move or tv info a handful of times.
We are all being used as beta testers with this unit lol
