The Hacked Apple TV

by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/2/2007 6:26 PM EST
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  • OrSin - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - link

    Sorry have to say it. Why buy something you need to hack when cheaper and better things al ready exist that dont need the hack. Mediagate has get devices, and if you dont use a HD drive are completely since. Also the Core 360 is cheap great way to get HD to a TV. YOu need to use a transcoder on the server storing teh content, but thats alot easier then hacking Apple TV. Sorry but a device dont do what you want dont buy it, then hack it. Just dont buy it and they will soon see no one whats that crap without the function we want.
  • gaash - Thursday, October 4, 2007 - link

    2TB? Thats a lot of pr0n :)
  • nordicpc - Wednesday, October 3, 2007 - link

    I've got a Vista Ultimate PC that I use Media Center on, and I keep most of my Xvid flicks on it. I do have a 250gb software mirror on my Ubuntu server I keep the sensitive stuff on, which I love because it emails me twice a day just to say "Hi, I'm OK."

    After reading the Anand meets Dell and Cable Card piece, I told Charter to take their premium content and shove it since I can't record it on my Vista PC. PS3 plays Blu-Ray, but I don't have it ripping to the server yet, that's a project for when things slow down.
  • kristof007 - Wednesday, October 3, 2007 - link

    Thanks for the great blog post and good luck on Gigantor2. Unfortunately I don't have anything half as fancy as Anand. I got a Phillips DVD player which has MP3/JPG/XVID/DIVX and all that good stuff support .. oh yea and it plays DVDs too =). So if I want to watch something I have to burn it. Not the most ideal but I guess it works!
  • oTAL - Wednesday, October 3, 2007 - link

    I have a similar set up with an original soft modded xbox. It works great to this very day and it's awesome for streaming media from my main rig.
  • werks - Tuesday, October 2, 2007 - link

    There are much better solutions out there than the AppleTV if you are looking for flexibility and codec support unless the Apple brand has some hold over you.

    Check out Divco's Tivx 5100 series plays practically everything (even ripped HD-DVD,Blu-ray) along with ISO's of DVD's, XviD, H.264 etc.

    Review - http://www.desray2k.com/tvix_5100sh/index.asp">http://www.desray2k.com/tvix_5100sh/index.asp

    If you want a fancy UI Microsoft revealed that the v2 MCE extenders will now support XviD & H.264 and a few partners have already been announced though it remains to be seen how hackable these will be as they are not PC's internally & much more similar to the Tvix products.
  • Tegeril - Monday, October 22, 2007 - link

    Sure, it does all that...but could it be uglier? I don't think I could make the interface uglier if I went out of my way to do so. I wouldn't want to look at that crap on my TV, ever.
  • stmok - Monday, November 5, 2007 - link

    This device runs on Linux. It means tinkers can adjust and manipulate things to look pretty and even fix bugs.

    Another benefit of not being Apple is that Divco/Tvix folks won't delibrately destroy your customisations in order to lock you down.

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