Bruce: Moving Mac computing to Apple TV output

This is great stuff. We have a macmini at our coworking facility and I'm thinking about how best to postion it as essentially a broadcast station to an apple tv equipped HDTV in our work area. Would like to show relevant info; eg weather, rss, 37sig campfire room, music, etc. on a rotating basis throughout the day.

I seem to remember something like this in the early, early days of the internet called PointCast.
http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_17/b3626167.htm
I always thought it was still a great idea that no one seemed to pick up. Hoping Bruce may lean in that direction.

Make a windows app.

I'm not sure how the protocol works (it's a reverse HTTP thing right? the mac webserves the images, and also provides the apple TV with the address as to where to get them via bonjour?) but this could be really cool if the image serving was done from an internet based server while the bonjour stuff was done locally from (say) and embedded device/hacked router.

A website could provide a flashy image describing the state of the world, and the embedded device would just point to it (ie. not needing the graphics processing power to make pretty pictures).

I'd love to see this work with an RSS feed. I want to use something like this in police stations.

I'd love to see PandoraBoy generating an interface to Bruce. Leave it up to Airfoil to serve the audio stream to the aTV.

Sounds like an interesting approach to inexpensive electronic displays. This is big business on college campuses, hospitals, and conference centers around the world.....

Couldn't get it to go. Will try again later today here in Perth, Western Australia.

Very cool,

Erica, I think many more people could make use of this if it were open source.

What this needs is to up the record rate to Screenium levels, then push it out to the Apple TV as video.

In which case you'd have a great meeting room / board room tool for displaying demos and Keynote presentations wirelessly.