JamanTV for Apple TV

It is great to see somebody endorsing Apple TV hacking. Apple TV, once hacked, is a wonderful device.

By the way, the movies available on Jaman are considered better-than-DVD quality. Most of them have higher resolution than movies available on iTunes.

For true HD content, I usually frequent the HD podcast list at http://hd.appletvsource.com .

Wow, Apple is still selling the AppleTV? What do folks use it for? Can you still buy TVs that display the ATVs low resolution picture natively? What a shame this thing was released already obsolete. If it could output at a meager 1080i, I would have been interested. Also, what happened to the content? Will this be another Newton - an idea before its time? I suspect ATV will disappear and someone else will do the job right in a year or two.

A lot of people are missing out on this little thing. You can hack it in 10 minutes with patchstick including Perian, then you can sync any DivX or Xvid content using iTunes and a little danmn useful droplet called AppleTV fooler that actually "fools" the apple TV to accept any movie Perian can play. Then you can hack it even further with all sorts of plugins, rss readers, etc. Worth every penny IMHO. Ok, maybe the price is a bit steep for a 40 GB drive but I heard they are halving the price on our Apple reseller because there is no movies in iTunes here where I live.

The AppleTV is easier to hack, as one can just plug out the harddisk after an update and mount it on any mac to check what has been added/changed. If that was possible with the iPhone's flash chips, I guess a hack would be found lots faster.

@2: Patchstick works flawless. I patched my appleTV 10 minutes after I bought it and have been enjoying a nice movie collection on my external HD ever since. The 40 Gb internal just wasn't enough to hold my DVD rips.

The Apple TV I have is about the most worthless piece of crap I have every bought. The lack of content is kiling this product. Apple needs to get it in gear with this thing or get out. If Apple TV is a "hobby" they should have mentioned that before I dropped $300 for the thing. I think I would feel better about the product if I could do direct download, but the download to itunes and then sync with the Apple TV is sluggish and seems like such an unnecessary step for a device that has mac os x under the hood and wifi.

So, did Patchstick get to a working state? I always wanted an AppleTV but I didn't want to open the case to mod it...

Well, in that case, can someone get Slingplayer to work on Apple TV?

I am sure Apple won't mind. After all Apple TV is just a "hobby" and its not like Apple are best of friends with their TV partners at the moment.