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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.
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.
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!
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.
I also like the screen saver which shows all photos randomly on your tv - find myself staring at it for ages.
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....D
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.Fantastic bit of kit for the price.
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