For me it was a low cost and more importantly at the time a small form factor that could work as a front-end for my MythTV setup. The hassles of getting it to work were something that I had to work with. I did try the XBMC thing integrated into the AppleTV, first generation, FrontRow operation with Mac OS X but it was painful to deal with and limiting (my opinion). With the iOS app model though it is theoretically possible that an App could be written to provide the MythTV front-end that can be run from an iPhone, iPad, and AppleTV (likely needing to use the Jailbreak for the latter to start with) giving the AppleTV the addition of LiveTV that it currently is missing. It could be a clean and nice thing.
Though I would love to be able and just get my TV content from the web it doesn't look like the networks are willing to adopt that model quite yet. So, I hookup the MythTV back-end to my satellite and get frustrated with the Ubuntu upgrades (sorry, just had to rant a little). On 2010-10-02, at 2:34 PM, Dylan Vassallo wrote: > What made the original Apple TV so enticing for Linux users is that it is > basically a standard computer (Intel 32-bit processor) in a miniature form > factor. The new Apple TV, with its A4 chip, is more similar in architecture > to an iPhone or iPad than a PC or Mac. The A4 chip is an ARM architecture > chip, and while there is some support for Ubuntu for ARM, there are a > fraction of the software packages available for that architecture in > comparison to x86 or x64. > > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Bruce E <bhelm...@gmail.com> wrote: > One of the big issues that I see with hacking the new Apple TV is it's > use of Apple's A4 chip. To my knowledge, no one has built a Linux > kernel for it. It's a system on a chip, including the processor and > graphics engine, etc. Given that it's proprietary, it may be a long > time before that happens. > > I did hear that it's very similar in design to the iPad and has > already been jail-broken. But that doesn't particularly excite me at > this point. > > I was also surprised to hear that it is also crippled with only 256MB > of memory just like the older Apple TVs, making it even less enticing. > Unless you're interested in what it can do out of the box, I'd say > stick with the previous generation. > > Bruce > > On Oct 2, 12:09 pm, Robert Baptista <rob...@rbcardiff.net> wrote: > > I don't believe the atv2 runs osx. I think Mythfrontend would have to > > be ported to IOS. > > > > As far as price is, the original atv's can now be had for $80 on ebay > > and craigslist. Just picked another one up myself last week. > > > > Robert > > > > On 10/2/2010 9:00 AM, radmofo wrote: > > > > > I did a few searches and it appears the new appletv is a little > > > different than the original being that it has no hard drive but > > > instead 8 gb of flash and it doesnt have a usb drive. The $99.00 cost > > > of the unit even directly from apple is very enticing. > > > > > Has anyone successfully installed mythtv frontend on this thing yet? > > > > > > -- > To post to this group, send email to atv-bootloader@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en > > > > -- > Dylan Vassallo > Computer science student > University of California Los Angeles > > > -- > To post to this group, send email to atv-bootloader@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en -- To post to this group, send email to atv-bootloader@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/atv-bootloader?hl=en
