It’s amazing how quickly the holidays come and go, but the memories of trying to get the “hottest” item of the season for your family member, significant other or close friend stays with you for years to come. It seems only yesterday we were fighting each other to get that one toy we needed for the holidays. And as we’ve grown older our toys have become a new gadget that will make our lives simpler or more enriched making us go wild deciding which gadget will be top of our wish list.

In 2007 endgadget.com rated an HDTV as the #1 wanted gadget for the Holidays which was superseded by the Pocket Cinema V10 – 42″ Handheld Projector in 2008. We have had some great gadgets come and go within 2009, and while we may be biased, the WD TV Live is definitely a top contender for gadgets to ask for this holiday season.

WD TV Live has the ability to create a network that hooks up to high and low definition TV’s, uploads media from USB drives, connects to the internet, and much more making them a must have for your home setup. With all the cool functions that WD TV Live offers customers are ripping them off the shelves as fast as our retailers can stock them.

So is WD TV Live on your wish list?

Just to make sure we were right about our assumptions we took it to the Tweets. We asked our Followers if they planned on “asking for or purchasing a WD TV Live for the Holidays” and found out that many of our followers had already purchased the WD TV Live Player as an early gift because they wait another month.

As long as we can keep them on the shelf long enough to make it to through the holidays it looks like some of you might have a nicely wrapped present waiting for you! Like they say, “big things come in small packages.”

- Your Jolly WD TV team

P.S. In case you didn’t already get the memo make sure to follow us on Twitter @WDTVLive.

Exciting news! Today we released a firmware update for WD TV Live Player. We have a little bit for everyone- a few new features and a few resolutions making everyone’s WD TV Live Player experience even better.

We have added some new features and enhancements you are sure to enjoy. Here are the top 3 you don’t want to miss:

• Support for more USB wireless LAN adapters.
• User selectable on/off for fade in and fade out effect while browsing files.
• Resolution of no audio when there is only a single, center channel audio stream in a video.

So turn on your WD TV Live Player today and get updated! If you want to manually retrieve your update click here. No matter how you get your update we want to hear your thoughts. So leave us a comment or give us a shout on Twitter @WDTVLive and let us know what you think, what else you would like to see in the upcoming updates, or just tell us how much you love WD TV Live- we’ll take it all!

- Your WD TV Team

Ps. We have more in store so make sure to connect with us on Twitter @WDTVLive to get exclusive news about updates, products and more!