Apple TV

Looks like someone made the Apple TV worth purchasing. I’ll wait for some more “hacks” to come out and this process to be a little more automated before I rush to apple.com. What’s interesting is the system runs a modified version of OS X, which hopefully means someone will add more functionality then frontrow and xvid/divx playback.

What’s so surprising is Apple left the system wide open for this type of thing, contrary to how Apple normally locks down there systems for DRM means. Or maybe they knew it was going to be hacked so they designed it they way they wanted for future expansion, time will tell.

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March 24

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  • You must have missed my post on MythTV :)

    There are plenty of completely open media center solutions, and they've gotten to the point where they're much easier to set up than what is described in that post.
  • Dan
    It would be nice, but no-one opens their hardware or software enough to be completely satisfied.
  • It would have been nice if they would have just supported it from the get-go rather than being so restrictive. I'm sure they'll probably "fix" "holes" like this in future "updates" =)

    It's totally ridiculous that it requires that level of hardware hacking just to watch video encoded in a free format. I'm sure this would void any warranty it carries either.

    It's also too bad that (even with that procedure) it doesn't seem to play *unmodified* XVID files without extra effort, (it mentions bootstrapping the files you want to play).

    Yet another reason why it's difficult to believe some of Jobs' ramblings about more open content (the whole DRM issue), because it should be very easy for them to allow (or just do) what is described in this article, but instead they choose to deliberately try to restrict the freedom of the users.
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