There is the same issue with youtube in the browser, where the sub-woofer is not used.
When I went from netflix in browser to the wd-tv I was very surprised when the sub-woofer kicked in.
I've noticed before that running Netflix in a browser causes it to lose all bass. But if I run it through my WD-TV media player then the bass is there.
Is this still the case? Is this problem across all browsers?