Thank you for your reply.
Got home and started over with a fresh mind. I did indeed manage to flash it with 1.55 on the stick and then did same with 2.02. Spent several hours getting familiar with it before I wire it to a second wireless router set up as a bridge.
Couple of things I observed....like others I experienced the slide show lock up. Unplug power is only recover method I could find.
Set video up for 720p and picture is very good.
Remote buttons are touchy and flash some choices by so fast you can hardy see them....other items the buttons are slow and almost unrepsonsive. in other words, the remote is not consistent with how it handles its business.
uTube thing is kinda fun...be nice to have Pandora though. Netflix setup and played nicely.
Main reason I went this route was to stream content off my laptop to TV to save me pulling out the 25ft cable to watch movies from my laptop.....it does this nicely. Also as a replacement for a worn out hD-DVD player....I was intending to install Go drive (bought a 500 gb Go ultra portable by mistake) to load my wifes collection of exercise titles.
Going to play with it some more......but I'm thinking that building a small home theater computer would not be much more money and would be much more versatile.
Surprised Seagate finds it hard to produce a product that would be a little more reliable and stable for the end users.......especially if the idea is to sell their drives.
Again, a big thanks to everyone here with posting their experiences, its clear some folks have been through several fW upgrades but found ways to use these players in creative ways.
If i keep it....i'll try to follow and contribute.
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