09-01-2010, 02:50 PM
I never bought the original Apple TV because it wasn't HD, and was a little expensive.
With the new model they threw away the hard drive - everything is streamed now, either from Apple or from your computer or from your iDevice. So you can stream from your computer - don't know what the file type limitations are, but I imagine you can work with it...or else just hack it, as you said. And it has Netflix, so you can stream unlimited movies and TV if you have a Netflix sub.
It's also tiny - a quarter of the size of your old Apple TV. At $99, I'm guessing Roku and the like are dead. I already ordered mine.
With the new model they threw away the hard drive - everything is streamed now, either from Apple or from your computer or from your iDevice. So you can stream from your computer - don't know what the file type limitations are, but I imagine you can work with it...or else just hack it, as you said. And it has Netflix, so you can stream unlimited movies and TV if you have a Netflix sub.
It's also tiny - a quarter of the size of your old Apple TV. At $99, I'm guessing Roku and the like are dead. I already ordered mine.
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