New Apple TV

[TuxRacer]

The new Apple TV has been announced.

Doesn't look like we get any TV shows though, unlike the states. Just expensive films and I suppose youtube if you like your video amateur and/or blocky.



Great looking piece of kit though, if anyone gets Linux running on it I'd buy it instantly. Cheaper than a Beagle board and with a nice case and remote control thrown in.

[lestag]

TuxRacer said:

The new Apple TV has been announced.

Well they don't want to win friends and influence IE8 people with that website. Absolutely unusable. fine in chrome

[TuxRacer]

Seems to work as well as any other site in IE7, at least as well as any site does on these thin clients we use. Just two more days until they're replace with Linux boxes.

[ad551]

If it had iPlayer, I'd be very interested. Shame.

[Gad-Westy]

I have one of the original Apple TV's that was gifted to me. It's very cool, but in the two years I've had it I haven't really found a use for it. The films and TV programs are pretty expensive and for the cost, I'd prefer to buy DVD's or BlueRay. I haven't really worked out a way to rip DVD's to it and store them on the apple hard drive. I assume that most people making proper use of these have hacked them so that they can store other media on there? Would love to find a good use for it as it is a cool device!

[Original Poster]

I am going to order one, will save trips to Blockbusters!

[iAlex]

But no internal storage?

[trooperiziz]

It's all about the streaming from a main computer for me. I'll most likely get one to replace my media pc

[Murph7355]

There are plenty of hacks out there for these. Just Google.

I always thought they were a bit expensive for their limited functionality. The Mac Mini was a better bet as a media centre for me.

[TuxRacer]

It's a new architecture isn't it? If so I doubt there's any hacks out there yet.

This is less than a sixth of the cost of the cheapest mac mini now.

Edited by TuxRacer on Thursday 2nd September 11:08

[va1o]

Its overpriced as usual, $99 in the USA and here they have just changed than to £99. There is also little point even selling it in UK as they have hardly any content partners, and it can't hook into Sky Player or the BBC iPlayer etc.

[Leithen]

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[Dracoro]

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[PJ S]

Original Poster said:

I am going to order one, will save trips to Blockbusters!

I read only the other day, that Blockbusters were close to filing for bankruptcy.
The decision to curtail visits to the store may well not be in your hands very soon.

[EdJ]

I have one of the old ones - it's great for viewing photos on the tv and playing music if your tv is connected to your stereo (either from the hard drive or via air tunes). Also good for renting movies - about the same price as hiring a DVD I think - and tv series.

I also like the screen saver which shows all photos randomly on your tv - find myself staring at it for ages.

[thinfourth2]

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[page3]

I have an original AppleTV which is running XBMC and iPlayer. It streams hidef files from my NAS box over wifi.

Fantastic bit of kit for the price.

[Nimbus]

or you could buy an old original xbox off ebay, softmod it ( takes 5 mins ), and run xbmc on that... streams every media you can get faultlessly, and costs about £20..

[davidd]

Nimbus said:

or you could buy an old original xbox off ebay, softmod it ( takes 5 mins ), and run xbmc on that... streams every media you can get faultlessly, and costs about £20..

We've run these for years and very good they are as well. Moving over to a ps3 now though and once I can get lovefilm on it and play .iso files it will be perfect....

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[[AJ]]

page3 said:

I have an original AppleTV which is running XBMC and iPlayer. It streams hidef files from my NAS box over wifi.

Fantastic bit of kit for the price.

I'm a big fan of the AppleTV too. Unlike the Xbox or PS3, it's small and pretty much silent. It's the perfect way to keep sticky kids fingers off your BD/DVD/CD collection.