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No way it will do 1080p. It will do some 720p (iTunes profile) and that is it. Pretty much identical to the current ATV.
Remember: the current ATV can only do 1080p with the aid of the crystalhd decoder board. My guess is it is extremely unlikely that the new ATV will have a similar slot in it.
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Apples A4 Processor is just a slight modification on the Samsung S5PC110, and the S5PC110 can do 1080p decoding and encoding.
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There is some suggestion that the A4 in the iphone can do 1080p, exactly which encoding profiles and levels remains to be seem. As everyone should know, 1080p covers encoding formats and many, many different profiles and levels. Some of which are to spec and others that are just plain silly and stupid.
Can the new AppleTV do the same? Unknown at this point, I bet even A4's can be tweaked for purpose and function. So far this is all idle speculation as no one has one of the new AppleTVs nor has any work been done to get anything running under it. And once running that's just the tip of the iceberg. For there to be any use, hardware video decode must be cracked. Just because it might be a Arm Cortex A8 does not mean that it's anything like the other arm A8 chips. It just means that the CPU is Arm Cortex A8. There about a 1/2 dozen "other" things that might be present alongside the A8. The GPU and hardware acceleration chip are unknown.
This is NOT just a code to the API, compile and run situation like the tegra2, there is NO API. So all everything has to be figured out by hand using trial and error. This is not a simple process, why even gaining control could take months of hard work and effort. So while interesting and does have potential, there zero change that anything will be seen for several months if at all.
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I just hope support for the now "legacy" atv won't be dropped like with the xbox?
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2010-09-03, 22:19
(This post was last modified: 2010-09-03, 22:22 by poofyhairguy.)
I don't see why so many XBMC fans are so negative about the new AppleTV.
I doesn't matter that the new AppleTV won't run XBMC, it can still be a great benefit to the community.
These AppleTVs provide basically NO overlap with a XBMC box. Sure the new Apple TV can't play a mkv rip. But XBMC (especially Live) can't use Netflix or play DRM iTunes content.
To me these AppleTV are perfect companion boxes to XBMC boxes like Revos. Everything they are bad at XBMC does well, everything XBMC is bad at it does well.
In fact, next time someone tries to create some monster on the Hardware Forum that does Netflix, iTunes and XBMC (in a terrible non-WAF friendly way), I will suggest they just get a Revo and an Apple TV for the price instead.
Everyone is too obsessed with having one box do everything. Multiple dedicated boxes are good to have.
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I guess my needs are a little different and I'm hoping someone smarter than I may shed some light on this.
I have a new generation mac mini running XBMC for my HTPC. 2tb of storage for movies and 750gb for music. Most of my movies are encoded in .mkv with the x264 encoder.
What I would like to be able to do is stream movies and music into three other rooms from the mini to the new apple tv. Anyone know is this may be possible?
Thanks
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The new AppleTV didn't surprise me at all, it's a better conduit to pay as you go TV/Movies. That's exactly what the product was supposed to be.
All though I hadn't thought of the idea of an app store for it, that's a great idea.