There's a firmware update due next week (that's two in less than a month, which I like).

It looks like the primary focus of this update is, thankfully, on local media issues. To start, you get an option to tell the Box what you use it for. I don't know if this is the best way to do this (it adds yet another option to the setup, for one thing), but it's better. It'll be much faster to get to the areas I want.

Also included is the ability to sort videos, jumping through movies by alphabet, marking as (un)watched, and an option for hourly source scanning.

Unfortunately you have to log into the forums to see the images, but they don't add a whole lot of information.

I'm looking forward to this, primarily because it will greatly reduce the button presses on my remote to get to my local media. The fact that they've implemented fixes requested by their users in under a month impresses me.