WD TV vs. WD TV Live Plus

I have a WD TV Live Plus and I love it for audio files but it's not so good on images. The problem I have with it is that I have one folder in particular which has close to 10,000 images in it. If I have the image settings set to shuffle, and I play a slideshow, it shows the images in shuffle mode but it tends to select only the first few hundred images to choose from rather than the entire folder. Even if I scroll down the list of images to # 4500, for instance. and start the slide show from there, it will show that image and then go right back the the first few hundred images and show nothing but those without ever going to any images outside of that group. Two questions: Does anyone here know how to correct that problem in a WD TV Live Plus? Does anyone here have the same problem with the newer WD TV?

This is an affliction of the Plus that was never fixed. We spent a lot of time on this subject back in the day and I dug up the old thread in the archive. It affects pictures and music equally. http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Firmware/Random-doesn-t-seem-random-any-more/td-p/91982/highlight/true The good news is it was resolved on the SMP and presumably the latest WDTV player is also free of this issue.

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I just got a WDTV Live Plus and I love it. The only problem is that I see the Apple Time Capsule and iMAC right away in the network shares, but I cannot get on them. I wanted to see what the issue could be. When I click them I am prompted for an account and PW. I put that in and after it thinks for a little bit I am given an error message that says "there are no supported files" or something like that. I am thinking about attaching some external size via USB but I want to make sure it can work first.

SMB is windows networking standard.. It has limitations on name length.. so keep to no more than 12characters.. that is less than max.. from memory 20.. but use short names.. ie name of the Time Capsule.. TC.
SMB does not like names with spaces.. Apple by default uses spaces.. get rid of spaces.
And SMB does not like certain non-alphanumeric characters. Apostrophe is one of them. Apple wizard sets up the TC with your name.. eg Fred's Time Capsule.. all hopelessly wrong. From an SMB viewpoint.. and since Windows still rules the world.. and everything works on SMB.. including Apple.. and including Linux which both use SAMBA.. the linux version of SMB protocol. And therefore of course the WDTV Live which is Linux firmware device.
You change the name in the airport utility from a computer.
eg.
So change the wireless name.. TC name and hard disk name.. so everything follows the rules.

Hotmail live plus problem

i have configured my 3g iphone to retrieve my hotmail via pop3. it works except only the 50 oldest message (which have been read long ago) where retrieved. I archived all except the 50 most recent from the inbox into another folder. now mail on the iphone will only fetch 50 messages at a time. when a new mail arrives its there on the web in hotmail but not on the iphone. if i delete message from the iphone inbox then new messages appear in the iphone inbox after a update/fetch.
help!

if you stick the following in google you can search this form;
*iphone hotmail oldest messages site:http://discussions.apple.com/*
There are plenty of people with our problem and no one appears to have resolved it.
I found a post by 'Alan Sampson' about half way in this thread;
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1548276&tstart=1
+You can't stop this because the account is a POP account.+
+When creating a POP account with a new email client that you've been accessing with another email client - or when re-creating a POP account with an email client such as in this situation, all messages available at the incoming mail server, or that remain at the incoming mail server will be downloaded again.+
+If you aren't interested in these messages, why are they still available at the incoming mail server?+
+As with any other email client, the iPhone's Mail client includes a setting to remove/delete messages from the server when downloaded.+
Can anyone one confirm this, and why the same didnt happen with gmail?

Western Digital TV Live plus conected to Time Capsule

My question is one of security.
My time capsule WIFI is secured with a password, does that mean that my WD TV that is connected with a Ethernet cable to my time capsule also secure ?

There's no security over your local "wired" network, but there is a firewall between your local network and the internet that will prevent any connections to your network unless you specifically allow it.
Here I am assuming that you have your Time Capsule connected directly to a modem. If you have the Time Capsule connected to another router, then it is up to that router to provide the protection between your local network and the internet.

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Has anyone successfully installed and used Windows Live Messenger Plus on their BB Curve? I have Windows Live Messenger installed and it works fine, but I heard from someone who has an iPhone that they installed something called Messenger Plus and it disguises the fact that you are logged on via your mobile phone.
Currently when logged in to Live Messenger via my phone it says that I am mobile and when contacts try to send me a message it alerts them that i am mobile and may be charged. I would like it to be transparent that i am logged on via a mobile device. Anyone have any luck with this?

I checked the website and didn't see Messenger Live Plus as being available to download for BlackBerries. Looks like it may only be available for PCs and IPhones...
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How to set up Hotmail on E71

Hi all.
I have a nokia E71 and cant set up my hotmail account. I have been into store and on the phone to vodafone for 2 hours and they couldt even help.
I want phone to ping when i get an email. i have also upgrades my account to Hotmail live plus
thanks

POP (incoming) server: pop3.live.com
POP port: 995
POP SSL required: yes
POP user name: your complete Windows Live Hotmail address (including "@hotmail.com", "@live.com", etc.)
POP password: your Windows Live Hotmail password
SMTP (outgoing) server: smtp.live.com
SMTP port: 25If you run into problems sending mail, try "587" for the SMTP port instead.
SMTP SSL required: yes
SMTP authentication: yes
SMTP user name: your full Windows Live Hotmail email address
SMTP password: your Windows Live Hotmail password
I have tired this but i am only able to recive emails, i'm am unable to send, i'm still in the process of figuring out how.

Can Apple TV 2 stream purchased videos / home movies converted to MP4 and in my iTunes library?

Okay, so we currently own a 1st Gen ATV and love it, however 99% of it's use is streaming purchased content and/or home movies etc. that I've used visualhub/handbrake to convert and imported into my iTunes library. All in all, once I gave up and surrendered my video content to iTunes and started streaming to my 1st Gen ATV I've grown hooked, I love sorting stuff however I want (I have about 250 movies, entire seasons of X-Files etc. that I've ripped from my own (LEGAL) media and put in iTunes, so when it's sorted properly it's very clean, when it's all alpha, it's a nightmare.
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Does the ATV2 stream media in iTunes TV Shows/Podcasts/Movies folders? It doesn't sync right? So it it all Airplay now?
Is my best bet just to get another 1st Gen? Are there any other media servers that are able to sort stuff by played/genre/etc.
Ug, I'm at a loss! I really love the features of my old Apple TV, and would love to get a new one, but I'm just not sure if it will do everything I'm used to, or if any of the other standalone boxes are better options?
I know this is a bit of a ramble, hopefully someone can make enough sense out of where I'm going and help me out! Thanks!

Welcome to the Apple Community.
The Apple TV 2 will play all the content in your iTunes library that your Apple TV 1 does. It can no longer sync any of it but can stream it all just as the older model did. Airplay is a different feature that lets you stream from an iPad/iPhone, the Apple TV 2 has Airplay the first didn't.
You can still sort and search content by genre, it still marks content watched and unwatched and mainly still lets you organise much as the Apple TV 1 did, with one exception. It doesn't do nested folders, so the ability to tag a movie as a show (ie James Bond) and have all the associated movies in a James bond folder has gone and it lists all these movies individually.
It has a similar situation with TV shows. It will put all TV shows in a series in a folder as the older one did, but the new one lists each series separately whereas the older model would put all the series in one folder.
Not nesting folders is a bit of a pain with large libraries and whilst I don't like it, it's more or less the only compromise I have to make and of course I get additional features too.

Currently, E4200 defintely inferior to D-Link DIR-655 when it comes to streaming applications

About 8 weeks ago I upgraded from a D-Link DIR-655 single band n router to the E4200, primarily to get into the 5GHz band for streaming Netflix to two different TVs in our house.
The E4200's wireless connections to my laptop's Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN card are very fast and rock solid. All of the E4200's wired connections are rock solid. The router generall performs well as intended.
BUT neither my Samsung BD-C6900 Blu Ray Player nor our WDTV live plus HD box establish a useful connection to the E4200 - with two very different symptoms:
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I've worked this problem for countless hours now.   Only solution that worked: We are now running both wireless routers, using the DIR-655 dedicated to streaming to those two devices.
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Thank you for your suggestion. I wish it was that easy.
We have both Comcast Cable and Clear WiMax 4G - I've been trying it with either IPS connection and several DNS servers.
DNS servers used:
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68.87.68.166, 68.87.74.166 (when hooked up to Comcast cable)
75.94.255.12 , 64.13.115.12 (when hooked up to the Clear modem)
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All else on the network works fine. And both of these machines, the BD player as well as the WDTV show correct DNS info. Again - taking out the E4200 and replacing it with the old DIR-655 also makes the two machines causing trouble with the E4200 behave alright. Hence it's not a DNS server address issue per se.
Connected to the E4200 using Ethernet cables both, the WDTV and the BD player, work fine.
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Can't move files to Hard Drive

Trying to transfer files from my downloads folder to my WD Passport Essential I get the "File to large for format" mesage. The external drive is formated is DOS. I have tried Exfat and it works but the problem I have is I can't hook up the drive to my media center! The WD media doesn't even see the drive. I looked at the "get info" on the file and it's not locked it is a large file but I have checked it on a friend Mac and it works on his no problem! We both are running 10.7.2? Seems this problem started when I upgraded to lion? Didn't have a prob with leopard.

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Can't install updates to hard drive

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Captureing from a dv camera....

i have been using the capture feature in fcp to log each in and out i want to be a clip and then batch capture but i want to be able to just press one button and have it capture every clip i shot from where ever i have it start from to the end or when ever i stop it... basically i pressed record on the caemare and 10 seconds later i press it again to stop... i do this repeatedly having more than one clip... is there any way to import these as seperate clips in fcp soo i dont have to sit there and set which i want each clip to be? i remember in iMovie you can do this by pressing one button and it would import them like that...

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Setting up "Mail" on iTouch (new update)

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Local USB "There's no media in the current folder"

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Hi,
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Hey guys/girls,
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