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Re: AppleTV 2 breaks free from the PC, remains under Apple’s lock and key

Luck Kanthatham — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:48:49 -0000

Hi, Steve. I get your point. Apple TV has a great potential as a platform for 3rd party developers. Of course, it is entirely up to Apple to open it up.

Not sure if you read my article I wrote a while back on "Repurposing the Apple TV" (http://appletvsource.com/co.... It shows you what kind of applications might be available on the Apple TV if there was an SDK for it.

Re: AppleTV 2 breaks free from the PC, remains under Apple’s lock and key

Erik Ankrom — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:34:31 -0000

Take a look at the AwkwardTV website:

http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/w...

I use Sapphire http://appletv.nanopi.net/ on my AppleTV to stream divx and xvid movies from my home NAS. It takes a bit of work to get all of the workarounds in place for it to work.

Alan Quartermain has released a Backrow developers kit http://alanquatermain.net/b... that works for both Frontrow and AppleTV, and there are a handful of existing plugins out there, some even open source projects.

The AppleTV has a LOT of potential, and I agree that there are some very cool possibilities out there. I would love to see a native smb,ssh, and divx codec compatibility built in, (but what would the movie studios think about that?). Don't think Apple is going to be opening it up anytime soon as far as codec compatibility goes.

Re: AppleTV 2 breaks free from the PC, remains under Apple’s lock and key

David Mackey — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:05:36 -0000

Yeah, they need to open the AppleTV up. What about when I want to watch some of the shows available directly through the channels' site - or utilize Joost/Hulu?

Re: AppleTV 2 breaks free from the PC, remains under Apple’s lock and key

JP — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:40:26 -0000

The ultimate device: aTV plus EyeTV.

Re: AppleTV 2 breaks free from the PC, remains under Apple’s lock and key

dig — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:10:13 -0000

I think you are 100% correct in this. They have simply opened it up to one particular store a few photo sharing sites. Still a step in the right direction as we already love version 1.0.