After upgrading the firmware to 1.03.42 the player doesn’t want to remember the video setting to the highest rate which in i guess in most cases would be 1080p 60Hz. No matter what i tried to do like upgrading to firmware 1.03.43 or even downgrading to the factory one 1.02 or whatever it was ,nothing happens:angry:. And now every time i want to watch a movie ,first i have to go to video options to change the resolution Does anybody have the same problem like me?
Welcome to the forums.
After you downgrade, make sure you reset the Live (and unplug from power for at least ten minutes). After that it should correctly remember your video settings (the latest beta “broke” this functionality).
plamen6969 wrote:
After upgrading the firmware to 1.03.42 the player doesn’t want to remember the video setting to the highest rate which in i guess in most cases would be 1080p 60Hz. No matter what i tried to do like upgrading to firmware 1.03.43 or even downgrading to the factory one 1.02 or whatever it was ,nothing happens:angry:. And now every time i want to watch a movie ,first i have to go to video options to change the resolution Does anybody have the same problem like me?
Yes, I have the same problem and I have posted about it in a few threads. I have read posts from many others with the same problem. HDMI handshaking issues are an ongoing known problem with all of the WD boxes. I have this problem with the original firmware 1.03.29_B, and with beta versions 1.03.39_B and 1.03.43_B. About 50% of the time the unit powers up set at 720p even though I have set it manually to 1080i 60Hz. It is very annoying to have to switch to the composite output in order to access the setup menu to switch the video back to 1080i. If you search the forum you will find many posts regarding this same problem. Here is a thread that I started about this issue:
The only solution I have found that works is to leave the WD box on all the time.
I have posted this before and I hate to sound like a broken record, but… I do not understand why this problem is so hard to fix. If the WD box is set to HDMI (auto), the box should try to do auto negotiation/handshaking with the TV and set the resolution/frequency automatically. However, when the user sets the HDMI video output manually, the WD box should remember this setting and simply set the video output the same way when it powers up. No negotiation/handshaking should take place when the video output is set manually. The reason that people set it manually is because auto negotiation has failed. It seems like WD is spending a lot of time trying to get hdmi handshaking / auto negotiation working with all TVs instead of implementing the simple fix of just leaving it set manually to the previous setting.
I fully agree with your idea!
User Configurable setting is “USER CONFIGURABLE Setting”, If WD TV live does not remember it and sets it to whatever whomever it negotiates or re-negotiates during HDMI handshake is a BUG.
Just take the setting what user decides to keep for his or her TV and store it in the NVRAM or Whatever, Write the EDID of the TV user connected when the user configurable setting was done remember the settings and LEAVE IT ALONE!
nuf’ Said!
