First generation Apple TV owners: checkout aTV Flash

i like atv flash but the only thing is that i still can't get flash to run on my apple tv,anyone can help me?

DO NOT BUY ATVFLASH. I purchased atvflash about a year ago and ever since then have been unable to play many formats. Their customer care team sucks and do not even have the decency to actually figure out what's happening, let alone fixing the problem. Since 1 year i have documented evidence on mail that all they do is dodge the issue and never come back with a fix. atvflash makes your apple tv slow and retarded. Yea you can watch divx and xvid files, but many formats are still not supported.

For all of you who download movies through torrents that have ac3 audio coding, will NOT be able to watch that movie on your Apple TV with atvflash. The video will play BUT the audio will be a loud stutter. The same movie will play perfectly fine on my mac. I've emailed them about this issue numerous times and they've still done nothing about it. My 1 year membership with them has ended and i guess they were just buying time so they don't need to deal with the issues.

To all of you who have an older Apple TV. DO NOT waste your money on atvflash. Their team needs to learn to listen to customers and fix these most basic issues before putting a product out there. There are free methods in which you can get other formats playing on your apple tv, so just google around and you'll see a bunch of free options. My appeal to all of you, do not buy this product, it's a complete waste of money. If any of you have any specific queries, please feel free to email me on zarulzarul@gmail.com and i'l be happy to answer your questions.

Cheers - Zarul.

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All I want to do is stream Netflix on my AppleTV.
Seems impossible?
Apple won't update the old box with the new ATV features.
Boxee has an app, but only for mac, not ATV.
aTV even says in their faq it would be flash/browser based and is unusable...not really sure what $50 buys you over boxee/patchstick that I've been running for years.

Maybe I should sell it and buy a new ATV. But I wouldn't even get half of its $350 price.

Loving the external hard drive - http://imgur.com/WwI8B.png

Any way to get ESPN3 on my first gen Apple TV?

Just reading about Google TV, which sounds like it will take significant strides to merging TV and the Internet -- easy program search and scheduling plus full web access to perform most of the functions you do on a computer. It sounds cool. And it sounds like it's moving in the right direction. Why doesn't Apple do the same thing with its TV product using Safari?

I've used aTV Flash and I have to say I'm impressed. Yes it's $50 which is not free, but it does many things which are just not possible with the free google version. Not to mention the hours of tinkering it will save you.

yeah you could atvflash, yeah you could stick in a Crystal HD card.
Or, you could just get a PS3.
It plays back HD files with flawless smoothness and colour accuracy, unlike the modded ATV (even with the HD card).
OK so you'll need to convert the odd file when you upload it with PS3 media server, but NOTHING handles video like a PS3 - NOTHING.
No hacking your ATV, no waiting for a HD card from asia, no hassle and you can play games, browse the net etc etc etc
I have both by the way, I'd sell my atv (with hd card etc) IF it was worth anything.

Has there been a decent dnla client plugin yet or something that actually works well for defining samba shares. When I did this before (multiple times) nothing worked properly.. Nico was the closest then, but it's been about a year since I worked with it.