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going to buy an apple tv today - beerman - 08-23-2008
I'm 99% sure I'm going to pickup an apple tv this morning. It will be used primarily for playing music with an occasional movie. I have two questions.
The first is how to modify it. I know there is a program I can download to a memory stick for around $60 that lets it playback more movie formats but I don't remember what it is called. I'm not interested in hacking it myself, I just want to buy the program.
The second question is about streaming. I want to make sure streaming of movies and music works well as I plan to buy the smaller of the two regarding storage.
Thanks for any info.
Re: going to buy an apple tv today - Stavs - 08-23-2008
I'm going to watch this thread and wait for the Popcorn Hour recommendation to come
Re: going to buy an apple tv today - kj - 08-23-2008
Good lord Beerman, you're on a roll. kj.
Re: going to buy an apple tv today - MacArtist - 08-23-2008
Here is some info:
http://www.atvflash.com/product_info.php?products_id=27&gclid=CJ_0gaukpJUCFQkmIgodS2hfbQ
This seems to be a good place to pick up what's going on with Apple TV mods:
http://forum.awkwardtv.org/viewforum.php?f=13&sid=a0820222d81a8e4e324530ef99bb71d5
For what its worth, I was seriously thinking about modding my Apple TV. I haven't moved forward with that. The only thing I am missing is playing previously ripped movies that were in incompatible codecs with the Apple TV. I was thinking I would transfer those movies to a USB2 drive and plug them into my home theater system and I can access them from there. Not an elegant solution but a very simple one.
Still undecided about modding the Apple TV
Re: going to buy an apple tv today - davester - 08-23-2008
Are those apple TVs safe or good? Do they come with free sushi?
Re: going to buy an apple tv today - Rick-o - 08-23-2008
beerman, I haven't modified my ATV, but I can tell you about my experiences with streaming.
I picked up the smaller drive ATV with the thought of replacing the HD to store more content. But once I figured out how to stream, I found that it works very well.
It might take a few seconds to wake up the drives I'm streaming from, but once it gets going there is rarely a hiccup. Movies, TV, pics, music, with virtually no problems whatsoever.
If you pick up the aTV Flash, let us know how it performs. I am converting some video from non supported formats to Apple TV format, but the conversion quality isn't quite there.
Re: going to buy an apple tv today - guitarist - 08-23-2008
Sushi has some powerful mind-altering properties...
Re: going to buy an apple tv today - Forrest - 08-23-2008
Streaming on the AppleTV works perfectly. Hacking is fairly complicated - not worth it in my opinion.
Re: going to buy an apple tv today - BigGuynRusty - 08-23-2008
PopCorn Hour.
http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/
BGnR
Re: going to buy an apple tv today - guitarist - 08-23-2008
How many music files do you have that are incompatible with Apple?