Release Date      :      6 March 2009     
Firmware Version:     50-17-090125-15-HDD-403-000    

Release Note     :    
1. Requires NMT apps 00-17-090115-15-HDD-403
2. Browser / System
  - Improvement on font engine character rendering (30% speed up)
  - faster navigation on local drives
    - Use numeric key to input item number to jump to the page where item is located
  - Improved fileplayer speed
  - Fixed HDMI display output blackout issue for auto EDID
  - Discrete RC (Logitech) scancode fix
  - Updated network share and webservices language packs.
  - Removed EXT2 option for NMT installation
    - Note: due to long term reliability issue with EXT2 on device that is frequently turned off abruptly
  - Additional symbols can be input from "1" key
  - HTTP download manager (only works with links with special "download" attributes.
  - File player hide Recycle Bin folder
  - Fixed 'TV MODE' + '3' key handling bug
  - Fixed recovery kernel no red screen displayed
  - Browser image caching fix, should fix some YAMJ crashes or no image issue.
  - Fixed HDD spin-up during standby
  - Fixed slow loading of HTML pages
3. Web Services
  - New UI
    - customizable icon feature with browse image utility (need NMT apps)
    - bug fixes on customizable service icon with browse feature.
  - Web Services page modification
    - Fixed a "save/remove service" bug
    - Now able to customise JPG/BMP icon
  - Fixed slow IR response while playback Internet Radio
  - Immediate response to STOP during Internet video streaming
  - Fine-tune Web Service UI
4. Network
  - Improved SMB server startup time
  - Improved browsing time for SMB client
  - Atheros USB WiFi stability fixes
  - Fixed SMB client hostname resolution picked up wrong IP address from the IP list
  - Fixed file copy failed from HDD to SMB/NFS with names containing whitespace
  - Fixed UPnP AV server playall issue broken in previous release
  - Fixed Samba server halts after device name change
  - Torrent client is now by default Transmission (btpd removed)
     **** IMPORTANT NOTE: Please ensure completion with previous downloads with BTPD, as new Transmission client cannot inherit previous downloads.
  - Fixed torrent schedule page not working
  - Fixed occasionally newly created SMB/NFS shares doesn't show up in media source list
  - Atheros USB WiFi added support for TP-Link v2 stick
  - Fixed persistent private IP when DHCP server unavailable (e.g. cross-cable connection etc)
5. Playback
  - Bookmark/resume for single playback
    - 10 bookmarks available now
    - Press stop to bookmark the last video playback
    - Press enter / play with focus on bookmarked clip to resume
    - Press "0" to start from beginning of clip
  - Auto framerate synchronisation
    - Framerate sync function in ISO playback, only for 50,60Hz modes (PAL/NTSC)
    - switch to NTSC(60Hz) when selected mode not applicable.(previously, it will follow TV mode selected)
    - Use 59.94 for NTSC when matching content detected.
    - Fixed incorrect data shown on infobar.
    - Fixed after ISO playback, screen goes blank when framerate sync kicks in
  - Improved info display
    - Disable incorrect video MPEG1/2 VBR display.
    - Fixed incorrect framerate info for video playback (*.mov, *.mp4).
    - Fixed video bitrate calculation error (less 1 packet every second)
    - Modified infobar UI (height, spacing and text displayed)
    - Fixed info bar losing text after paused
    - Improved accuracy of mpeg1/2 bitrate information
  - Photo app
    - Fixed JPEG (PNG / TIFF transcode) from myiHome server cannot be displayed
    - Fade-In Fade-out effect added for photo transition
    - Enable large jpeg rotation. (downscale before rotate)
    - Fixed faded color for jpeg at 360-deg rotation
  - TV Type setting for DVD playback
    - the TV type setting is now working for DVD video playback (4:3 and 16:9 only, 16:10 will treat as 16:9)
  - DVD Menu
    - new popup menu if MENU key on PCH remote controller is pressed
    - user can select to jump to ROOT, TITLE, CHAPTER.... etc from the menu
  - Modified progressive zoom and pan in ISO/IFO playback
  - Removed up/down keys as prev/next track/td>
  - VCD *.DAT playback fixed using soft demux
  - Fixed "repeat" keypress in myiHome when playback audio caused picture playback to halt
  - Improved handling of MKV H.264 profile and vlevel.
  - Fixed cannot stream MPEG from UPnP AV server, liveTV
  - Fixed .pls file unable to start when playback locally (HDD/SMB/NFS)
  - *.m3u playlist supported.
  - Fixed TS with stream6 as teletext playback cause out of memoryFixed MKV H264 L4.1 pixelated video issue
  - Fixed MKV H264 L4.1 pixelated video issue
  - Fixed ISO over SMB stutter issue, when no HDD attached
6. Subtitle
  - Fixed subtitle parsing with BOM (UTF8 support only)
  - Fixed wrong character rendered in Thai subtitle
  - Changed default subtitle font size to 28 and Y offset to 10
  - Exception handling in SSA subtitle parsing
  - Slight adjustment of subtitle position