Author Topic: Upgrading functionality on an AppleTV! (Read 1859 times)

gunug · « **on:** January 30, 2009, 09:15:18 AM »

I'd do this in a minute if I already owned an AppleTV but this certainly looks like a good idea:

http://lifehacker.com/5138423/cut-the-cabl...ee-and-apple-tv

Xairbusdriver · « **Reply #1 on:** January 30, 2009, 02:22:42 PM »

I suppose they include some unavoidable ads at the beginning of each program? Or maybe not until the service goes 'live.' "There ain't no free lunch." Despite what you may have recently heard.

swhitset · « **Reply #2 on:** February 02, 2009, 05:46:14 PM »

I have been running Boxee on my AppleTV for a few months now. For me, it makes the AppleTV complete. I already have my entire video collection ripped to my iTunes Library (making it over 600GB in size

) and now, with Boxee, I find myself watching old tv shows from HULU on my Plasma TV via the AppleTV. The hack was really not all that difficult if you are patient typing terminal commands. The actual change to the AppleTV involves plugging a specially formatted flash drive into the USB port of the AppleTV at boot. You can do this for free (as I did) if you do some searching. If you would rather pay about $50.00, you can download the files preformatted from http://www.atvflash.com/ As I understand it, the previous site's files work fine, however, there is some bad blood between them and the original hackers over at AwkwardTV which is where I found the original hacks.

Steve

gunug · « **Reply #3 on:** February 03, 2009, 08:04:13 AM »

Thanks Steve, it's good to hear a first person experience with this. I'm sure that the load old TV shows put onto a system isn't near as bad as that of newer movies and such in higher resolution. I'm very much a child of the 60's so watching old TV shows (some B&W!!!) is still pretty entertaining for me. Maybe I'll keep an eye open for a used AppleTV; what model/age are you using?

swhitset · « **Reply #4 on:** February 03, 2009, 01:15:59 PM »

I have the original 40GB AppleTv. I stream almost everything... so I don't need anything bigger. I use an airport extreme and I hardwire the AppleTV to that which is much more reliable than wiFI. Incidentally, Most of my DVD's are ripped and encoded via Visual Hub at the max settings i.e. the resulting files are still in excess of 3 GB each. These stream to the AppleTV without a hitch. I also rent quite few Hi Def movies from iTunes and they play fine as well.

Steve

krissel · « **Reply #5 on:** February 04, 2009, 04:49:02 AM »

Here's an article that agrees with the idea of Boxee and wishes Apple would join in on the idea.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/con...9023_256119.htm

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