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- bobbothegrayson, on 10/10/2007, -7/+42Sounds like apple should have allowed this in the first place.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -9/+40Sounds like the apple tv just got better
- slackerxpc, on 10/10/2007, -4/+23hmmm, I might pick one of these up. I have an extra 500gb external drive laying around
- turbineseaplane, on 10/10/2007, -3/+22Finally! Why Apple wouldn't allow this out of the box is a total mystery. Just stupid really.
- djpants428, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20the article says that the external drive is formatted HFS+, the title referred to it as "fat" meaning large (2TB). I guess you only read the title, but still comment like you have a clue what you're talking about.
- houndeyex, on 10/10/2007, -6/+16Dugg for mentioning porn.
- rudy23, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11because its a media streamer. it streams off the network.
- fox, on 04/11/2009, -1/+10I have all of those on my atv running perfectly
USB- http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Enable_USB_Storage
AVI- http://perian.org and ATVFIles ( http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/ATVFiles ) or just NitoTV - http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/NitoTV
bittorrent - rtorrent - http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/ATVTorrents and i have TVShows ( http://tvshows.sourceforge.net/ ) on it also. - yargok, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10done, done, and done.
- chris9902, on 10/10/2007, -13/+19It couldn't of got much worse.
- zdiggler, on 10/10/2007, -9/+14Wow.. people still playing with it?
- rudy23, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6do you even know how much bandwidth is available on on a LAN. its more than enough to stream 3 movies and let you run your internet without any bandwidth slowdowns.
- neofactor, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6@over9: "so much for the famous apple security"
These are feature enhancements... extending the framework that is there. No one, including Apple have established some security measure to prevent this. "hack" is such a loose term today! It is simply take advantage of how things work.. like the "Elevator Hacks" and the like. - johnpaul191, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3how about this..... you live alone and your only Mac is a Macbook Pro. if you take your laptop with you a lot then it probably is just as likely to be in a bag, so you would have to pull it out, boot it up, and probably leave the lid open for best ventilation if you are streaming movies.
personally i have a desktop, but i have heard other people bring up that scenario. it sounds like a valid reason to want more internal storage. there are also a lot of people that have laptops, do not have 802.11n WiFi on all the associated hardware, and said they sometimes get some buffering issues.
personally i'm still torn between an AppleTV and a cheaper refurb Mac Mini. the built in DVD player, and ability to have a full Mac (web browsing) makes it a tough call. a lot of movies i watch are not on iTunes (very indie or foreign films), and i might not want to own them even if they were. it's cheaper to rent or borrow. - meatmcguffin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I don't think Apple care if it means hackers are buying them which in turn adds features and makes more people buy them. They haven't released a patch to stop Linux on the iPod, the additions to the iPhone or any patches to undo the hacks to the AppleTV. You could also hack a newton to pieces and Apple didn't care. Hell, even Apple's unofficial slogan is "it's better to be a pirate than to join the navy"
As for security- breaking into a local computer is easy, it's getting in remotely that's the security risk - rudy23, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Sorry for the ignorance but I havent been following apple tv too closely. Can someone answer thiese questions for me.
Has it been hacked to
1. Support major video codecs such as avi, divx, xvid etc. you know the ones our torrent files usually come in ;)
2. Stream directly from a Network Server via Upnp or shared folders
Also how difficult is it to apply these hacks and do firmaware updates from apple keep renedering them useless? - miniboss, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5I just bought one and have been working on hacking it for a week now. My experience has been that this has been more of a pain than its worth. If you live in iTunes then keep it the way it is because as a streaming TV-Pod then it's fantastic. But if youre looking to hack it to play real-world files then don't even bother.
BTW. I had to go to 4 different Costco's to find one. Each one listed it as discontinued and while they listed both 40 and 160gb in the system they had no plans on refreshing the stock due to very slow sales. Hopefully people realize that slow sales is good news because it will force Apple to make the product more appealing by opening it up for all files. - Me1000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3AVI is just a file type that supports MANY different codecs! it is not a codec in itself!
- suprchunk, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Actually story here:http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/07/28/usb-patch-released-hallelujah/
When will you gizmodo linking losers start digging (not too hard to do, btw) for the link to the actual story? - johnpaul191, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2it was probably already submitted by somebody else!
it's the workaround for the Digg anti-dupe system. - danny951, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Dugg up for the links!
- danny951, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3@over9 Are you really that stupid? I can't believe I'm even replying to your ignorant post.
- rudy23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2what about the updates. do they fk all hacks? also how much work it is to hack it. am gonna check the wiki in the meantime?
- fox, on 04/11/2009, -1/+3http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Main_Page and the IRC channel are much more helpful
- rudy23, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4question is how many hours do i have to waste enabling it. it should have this suport natively
- vagarach, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Still, the apple tv should be able to play video at higher resolution & bitrate as compared to the 733mhz p3 (or celeron) the xbox is running.
- johnpaul191, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4that whole super-Dugg story about AppleTV phoning home, and Apple breaking the hacked devices was a total lie. the hackers ***** something up, and found it easier to blame Apple than themselves. Apple flat out said they do NOT have some secret back door into the AppleTV.
i'm not sure there has been one firmware, or software, update yet? earlier this year Apple has said they made these for fun. they referred to them as a "hobby" that may one day become a viable market. they never seemed to think they would sell tons of them, they always knew this would be the year of the iPhone. - rudy23, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3you need to check the date on your computer man. its 2007 already
- ketha, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Not quite 'anything' that Os X can do, i believe...as there are certain limitations with the hardware... but these are gradually being worked out.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+6I didn't put /sarcasm because I overestimated your IQ. Look in the mirror before calling anyone a dumbass, dumbass
- jkoke, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4Nobody cares about your softmodded Xbox
- toxicityj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I swear to God you mac fanboys defy logic, facts, and the truth so you can continue to live in your ignorant "apple does no wrong" world.
- danny951, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Yes, and Apple should have shipped them with every episode of The Office, Lost and American Idol! DAMN YOU APPLE!!!
/me rolls his eyes - woot4fun, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2To those indicating that the Mini is better than the AppleTV, the lack of a dedicated graphics chip and video ram makes the mini an inadequate video player. Even the most current model barely makes 24fps at 1080i resolution. Also connecting a mini to your average projector or HDTV is non-trivial. Component outputs and HDMI on the AppleTV make these connections quick and easy. Recent articles, and Steve Job's comments about AppleTV as a hobby indicate that Apple is putting a lot of hardware for the money into that these little boxes.
- esoterica, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Let me know when I can play H.264 on XBMC.
- houndeyex, on 10/10/2007, -7/+8XBMC ***** rocks.
- sancho, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11: Yes, I believe. Check out appletvhacks.net
2: Not on the base install, yet, though you can run a full OS X install off of the box. If you do that, you should be able to do anything that OS X can do. - rudy23, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3too bad you are being dugg down but it still isnt worth caring about.
- phntm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2it will allow porn? excellent :)
- fryke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1well, yeah, you can stream things, but it certainly is nicer to just sync the stuff. i guess at some point, apple will just update AppleTV to be able to do this out of the box. that USB port seems awfully useless as per factory default.
- rebotfc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Yes , I currently have streaming from an NFS shared folder..
- BlueStarr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Sounds koo....
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -8/+9Give me avi support, a built in torrent client, and external hard drive, and we are good to go!
- danny951, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I'll look into the product you posted firewire2, but I'm skeptical as to how easy to use it will be. Can my 6 year old use that as easy as he can the AppleTV?
- spids, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://plugins.awkwardtv.org/ - somegeologist, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Really?
Closing the book on Apple's Mac mini
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/05/24/closing_the_book_on_apples_mac_mini.html - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+5***** this. Just buy a Mini and be done with it. Then you can use a legitimate storage connection (Firewire) instead of dicking around with hacks and interconnects designed for keyboards, mice, and modems (USB).
- alphaone, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Yeah, I don't know why people AREN'T doing that. Bluetooth keyboard/mouse with it or VNC into it from a laptop and you've got a better media player anyway, assuming you install VLC. Hell, if people really want to shell money out, just get a comp with an hdtv capture card and make it your own DVR [my plan in the next year or two when I can afford to].
- johnpaul191, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2but you have to buy a more expensive Xbox. i don't play games, so i have no desire to own an Xbox.
*if* i owned an Xbox, everything i heard says you are correct....... but there are some of us not in that camp. - esoterica, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I agree, Mac mini is better for your primary media hub since it can also function as a BitTorrent client, iTunes server, etc., but for additional TV's there's no reason to spend twice as much.
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