New features for your media client via firmware update in WDTV Live Plu

            You are impressed with the WDTV Live Plus you recently purchased. It plays smoothly  and  is  easy  to  operate. Don’t you think you could've got even more?

           Media  clients such as WDTV Live Plus from Western Digital enjoy huge popularity and allow reproduction of multimedia content directly from a USB stick, external portable drive, from media servers in the LAN or over the Internet.The WDTV box could have a lot more within. It plays YouTube videos or Pandora Internet Radio streams with least effort. With the new Firmware version 1.04.10 dated 13.1.2011, it now supports Facebook, Blockbuster on Demand, Deezer, Flingo and AccuWeather.com as well. You would now probably wonder how you can manage your Facebook account with the WDTV remote control. Well, you do not have to! You can now connect a keyboard to the USB port. This will make not only Facebook easier to operate, but it will  also be  much easier to surf  through YouTube videos since you no longer need  to  select  the  particular  alphabets using the remote control. Furthermore, you can now also download two files simultaneously. In theory, these features have always been there, but not used until now. The easiest way to update the fi  rmware  of  your  WDTV  box  is a functional Internet connection during the device startup. The box checks whether a new fi rmware is available at the time of every booting and asks whether you want to install it. If you click on ‘Yes’ (with the remote control), everything runs automatically without any effort.