Comments on: Cashing in on Apple TV customizations

By: Jackson

Jackson — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:43:04 +0000

if you don’t want to tear your own appletv apart and mess with the software, this is pretty cool. I think the reason to have the bigger drive in there is that you don’t have to turn on your computer at all – once you download all of your videos, music and photos onto the AppleTV. And remember, photos don’t stream, so you have to have enough room to store all of those on the drive.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:41:17 +0000

Does anyone know if you can sync and stream from the same computer/iTunes Library?

In other words lets say I have 80 Gigs of music. Can I go ahead and sync 30 Gigs or so until in fills up the Apple TV’s hard drive and then stream the rest of my collection from the same Computer/iTunes Library? Will all of my collection show up in the Apple TV’s menu system even though it is not all actually synced?

Thanks

Tom

By: istealmusic

istealmusic — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:24:21 +0000

it looks like the $99+$120 gets you a 160gb hard drive, and a 120gb is a bracket below that

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:48:49 +0000

XMBC is amazing but its not quite interchangeable with the AppleTV. For example, the XBox is big and ugly. It doesn’t allow you to stream photos and videos from your computer wirelessly. Finally, it doesn’t support HD.

The AppleTV does all those things far more easily than even the very lovely and polished XBMC. It is a different product and is silly to claim the two are the same or even interchangeable for the end-user.

By: P a u l e y

P a u l e y — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:32:27 +0000

@Killeroid agreed

By: Killeroid

Killeroid — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:20:36 +0000

Just get a xbox for 100 bucks and install xmbc. :)

By: dalton

dalton — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:11:18 +0000

At that price, wouldn’t a Mac Mini make more sense? Then you can do whatever you want with it without all this “hacking” nonsense.

Not that I don’t want an Apple TV. I just see the possibility of a software update coming down the line that completely wipes out any customizations or possibly even break systems with unauthorized hard drives. Wouldn’t that suck?

By: Andrew Clark

Andrew Clark — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:52:03 +0000

Ok so I don’t have an AppleTV however the upgrade process is much cheaper than that.
taking the instructions from http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/03/10045/ and a larger hard drive from http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010150380%20130971534%201309721216&name=120GB there. It can safely be said that you can clone the hard drive over with carboncopycloner. (get it at: http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html )

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:39:26 +0000

Its a 40 GB Hard Drive in the Apple TV