[voip-ninja]

I can see now that I missed something in the original poster's configuration. I was thinking 1:1 ISO files (my erroneous conflation). So the use case does not apply to me as I use ISO files to play from. I like to backup everything about my media, so I am not using the MKV format. I hope to use Blu Ray menus -- now that this is starting to become possible.

Having been told that re-encoding my entire library myself, I am not suggesting that this is the solution for @voip-ninja at this time. Things improve over time, but when you are facing a 'return window' for the device, I would have to return it if I were him.

Since I have had a few devices that do not meet _my_ use case, I can tell you that looking at the devices laying useless on a shelf can make you feel sad. I have been known to repurpose them as gifts for folks I know who's use-case they satisfy. (Roku & WD TV Live+ come to mind)

I think you've hit it exactly right here. Great thought the firetv is, it doesnt meet everyone's requirements for XBMC. Some things may be fixable, some will not. If those things are important to you, its probably better just using another platform that already does what you need. Keeping using technology in the hopes that it will one day be 'fixed' to do what you need it to do now can be a very futile pursuit.

Yeah, I plugged my 2 year old POS Boxee Box back in and everything works fine other than Boxee's own issues. FTV is a neat device, just not ready for my uses yet. I'll see if my wife wants to use it at her office.