Apple TV jailbreak news: USB restore mode discovered

Speaking of jailbreak - http://www.wheresjobs.com/steve-reacts-to-tigers-assault/
haha I had to do it.

If the UK could stream LoveFilm rentals and BBC/ITV/Ch4 iplayers I would be all over the apple tv like a fat kid on cake.

I want caller id on my tv when I am watching a movie. Paired with my asterisk box, and ethernet, it should be fairly simple having something with growl like notifications built.

Just make a player that has all the codecs to play MKV's and stuff from an attached USB storage device. Not even sure if it has enough juice to decode some of those MKV's

VLC. It's on the iPad, coming to the iPhone, so the port should be fairly straight forward.

i dont know how boxee is so popular, it is one of the worst apps/frappliances i've ever used in my entire life. the ui is hideous, its kludgy as hell and i dont want a crappy social network on my AppleTV.

Glad some progress is being made, ill definitely be eating my words about how similar the OSes are between AppleTV and iDevices. Dumping the headers out of the extracted binaries is a bit of a pickle so far, but bholland is on the case with a possible solution. porting software for it shouldn't be too bad once we have a good way to compile frappliances for ARM, and of course i don't imagine a jailbreak is too far away either.

Only thing I care about it having (beside it's iTunes streaming) is a Hulu player. Doesn't need to be through Boxee, just an app for Hulu. Not Hulu Plus, that'd be okay, but regular Hulu with a login feature.

Got mine yesterday! Loving it so far, but really want to be able to playback/stream .Mov files that I have stored on my local and ext. drives... any ideas if this will be supported eventually by Apple or in the Jailbreak? Also, I would LOVE to see apps such as specific games come to the Apple TV! That would be awesome to be able to load a game and play the game using your iPhone as the controller or something like that. It would make it he ultimate Movie and gaming console in my opinion... ooohhh... I'm just dreaming of playing "Angry birds" on my big screen TV!!! ; )

I just need Pandora/Slacker without the massive overhead of the Boxee interface. Both these apps already exist for other iOS devices so it shouldn't be too much trouble, technically.

For those wanting to plug in a DVD/BD/HD via USB -- unlike the previous Apple TV, this new one is a USB endpoint, not a USB host... it's not like Firewire; it doesn't go bidirectionally.

Just a thought...

iTunes will probably not allow the installation of any AppStore sourced iApps on the TV and the only way to install legit apps is if those apps are pirated.

Apps sourced from Cydia are the only ones that will run "legitimately".