OK so I have a 1.5 Tb HD connected to my new Airport Extreme - which allows me to send this to any location in my house as a shared drive. I can also connect my
Apple TV to my network via an ethernet cable (I have my whole wired and hubbed to 1000).

So why do I have to 1) hack my Apple TV nad put in a larger drive or 2) directly connect a HG to the USB port?

I know the thrill of being a maker and all but is there any really good reason?

Let the discussion begin. :)

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Is anybody actually using the tv
or just hacking the bloody thing

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To clear things up, the USB is there, working...you can hold S to boot to single user mode, but the real problem are the drivers, crippled, so even in the single user mode, keyboard does not work :)

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Anyone think a similar platform will be the foundation for the Mac Book Mini? The rumored flash-based sub-micro notebook?
A 1GHz CPU like this one is probably fine for such a product.

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I'm really exicted about the tv as a media hub and hacking is fun too! I can't wait til I get one in 2 weeks. Birthdays rule!

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i'm with #1 here,
i have got an itunes server capable NAS and i would like to know if anybody manages to get it running with that library to stream from.

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to #1 and #6 :

not everyone can afford both an Airport Extreme and an AppleTV. if i can buy an appletv and hack it to work as an Airport Extreme, then i'd be happy ;)

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If someone manage to put windows / linux / Mac OS X 10.3 on it, i will buy...

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How do we know that they 'actually' did this? he enver boots off of the non-external drive to show that the logo is correct. In fact he even admits that the drive inside the APPLTV is not the original one. Sure we see the blinking lights on the external drive but is it really booting from it or just accessing it as part of a normal bootstrap? IE: looking for upgrade files etc... Why whenever someone make a video like this does the camera always pan around, be our of focus etc. Why not place the components together in such a way that everything could be seen and then no questions will arise?

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How many people checked their Mail when the message tone went off in the video? LOL

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I'm currently working on attaching an iSight to my Roomba which I control with a Wiimote and watch the video stream on my AppleTV.

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I share the skepticism of #9, but for different reasons.

The iTV may be designed to search for an external HDD when booting into recovery mode, and boot off the recovery partition on said external drive (in case someone manages to mung up their whole drive, the geniuses can still restore).

I would be more impressed if they turned on the iTV normally and still managed to boot off the external drive, using the external drive's normal partition, not the recovery partition as stated in the video.

Still, this is one step closer, as they say.

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I checked my mail, even when Quicksilver didn't pop up to tell me that I had a new message.

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So let me get this right, when the Mini came out, it was used as an AppleTV-like device in home theaters. Now that the AppleTV is out, it is being modified to be a Mini?

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I am just wondering how to do this without linux and with mac os x, can it be done in vista or xp to copy

the drive
It seems that Apple TV does not perform well on some SD TVs which should be fixed, because not everyone has

bought a HD TV at home.
Best appkle tv converter

My apple tv converter
http://www.apple-tv-converter.com

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