Ordered an Apple TV.

[DRR]

Expect a refresh this week.

[Ken Sp.]

Thanks for taking one for the team.

[Done]

They are supposedly in the works for a new one, but I think it will at least be 3 or 4 months if not longer (who know it's Apple). The new Apple Tv is going to be totally different if you can believe the rumors.

[Mini 9]

I think you need an iPod Touch, too.

Just sayin'

[GGD]

Mini 9 wrote:
I think you need an iPod Touch, too.

Just sayin'

And a Mac Pro, and iLife 09.

[deckeda]

Thanks DRR. I think that makes 3 or so us in the last couple of weeks that have now helped ensure a new model is on the way.

[Don Kiyoti]

I may just add myself to the list of new-model-seeders. I just wish I'd have been able to get in on that $125/160GB deal.

[Zoidberg]

Is there a good Q&A online for the AppleTV? For instance, can it stream from a shared folder (on my iMac) of ripped DVDs? (Thinking of getting an AppleTV for the family TV and one for an upstairs TV).

[deckeda]

I've read that you can play ripped DVDs after hacking it but have never been interested in that myself. Anything I want to put on a computer all I want is the main feature, not the DVD's menus or extras. After you rip … it's easy enough to Handbrake it, making any hack to play a .vob file on ATV superfluous.

Sharing is a snap from any computer with content in iTunes.

As for what's possible, you might start with the ATVFlash product (last link) and then know that pretty much all of that can be done for free on your own with some homework.

http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.appletvhacks.net/

http://www.iclarified.com/entries/index.php?caid=2&scid=6

http://dannyruchtie.nl/2010/04/hacking-apple-tv-take-3/

http://bubba.org/wiki/index.php/ATV_Boot...ion_Script

http://www.atvflash.com/index.php

[DRR]

Zoidberg wrote:
Is there a good Q&A online for the AppleTV? For instance, can it stream from a shared folder (on my iMac) of ripped DVDs? (Thinking of getting an AppleTV for the family TV and one for an upstairs TV).

Yes. I plan on having NitoTV available to the ATV for occasions that I want to do this. Most of my content will be ripped and iTunes sortable, however I still need (or, could use) this functionality.

For example, with a kids' DVD that has nine 20 minute episodes on it, that they'll watch for two weeks and then forget about. I figure it's probably easier to just rip the entire dvd and have it available that way, rather than ripping the DVD and then encoding each individual episode, and then adding to itunes. Then they can look at the goofy extra features and stuff they inevitably put on kids' DVDs also. After a week or two, I can just trash the (ripped) DVD files.