Apple TV

[Julie]

I got an Apple TV (as a late b-day present), and I have to say , I love it. All my music on my pc is automatically synced to it, as are music videos, tv shows, movies, etc. that I have on my computer. And contrary to what a lot of people have said... its not just iTunes purchased stuff that you can play on it. You can pretty much play anything on it that is saved in the right file formats. For example, today I played around with downloading youtube videos with vixy.net and converting them to .mp4 format. It works like a charm, so any music videos I want I just get off youtube and convert to mp4 and the Apple TV picks it up instantly and I can watch it on my widescreen plasma. Playing around with it...it really does feel like the future of tv and entertainment. It's neat, although there are a few suggestions I'd have for Apple to make it even better. It was a breeze to set up, and only took a couple minutes.

Has anyone else got one yet, and what do you think about it? I am hoping to mod it to give it more storage, like I've read about others doing. That would be awesome.

[jess12]

Didn't realize it's out already Just checked apple website, looks like a cool stuff I might get one in the near future. Have fun playing w/ it Julie

[littleFella]

Originally Posted by Julie

Has anyone else got one yet, and what do you think about it? I am hoping to mod it to give it more storage, like I've read about others doing. That would be awesome.

Not an apple guy, so I've been using Media Portal for now. I especially like the TV Server Feature. Lets me watch TV on any PC ovover wireless LAN too, including the one I hooked up the tv set to.
Right now I am rearranging my hardware to jump at LinuxMCE.

Oh, both are free.