2012-05-08, 21:00
WOW WOW WOW. That was very helpful and informative. Thank you, this is what I was looking for. You almost had me thinking you were somehow selling ATV1 to me and making money off of it. Know that I'm *almost* sold! I have some follow up questions...
1) So the BCHD link said that the BCM970015 plays divx and xvid files. Is this implying that the stock ATV1's XBMC can't do that by itself? Or in other words, do you know how the ATV1 compares against the original Xbox running XBMC? Kinda like you did the breakdown between ATV1 vs. ATV2 & 3...
The Xbox's XBMC can play all of the codecs listed minus the 1080 stuff. I know the XBMC software can supposedly handle "anything you throw at it" but does the ATV1 hardware limit any of those things? (excluding HD stuff of course)
At this point I'm not too interested in upgrading to the BCM970015, currently I'm only living in a SD world . Also, that would be $40 for the ATV1 and another $40 for the card = $80. At that price point it would almost be worth it to buy something else used. Like a nettop. Can you tell I'm a poor college student yet?
2) Can the usb port handle a usb hub? Like this one: http://xtecgo.com/usb-hub/usb-hub/
To have a usb wifi adapter, keyboard, mouse, hard drive, etc. connected all at once would be a cool feature.
3) Speaking of hard drives. Can you use an external hard drive that's connected to the ATV1 and then access that content over my network (because ATV has wireless) on my Windows 7 computer? How exactly does the networking work? Could it function like a "NAS"? Is it through SMB, Windows 7 Homegroup, Workgroup, etc..?
THANK YOU SO MUCH DUDES!!!
1) So the BCHD link said that the BCM970015 plays divx and xvid files. Is this implying that the stock ATV1's XBMC can't do that by itself? Or in other words, do you know how the ATV1 compares against the original Xbox running XBMC? Kinda like you did the breakdown between ATV1 vs. ATV2 & 3...
The Xbox's XBMC can play all of the codecs listed minus the 1080 stuff. I know the XBMC software can supposedly handle "anything you throw at it" but does the ATV1 hardware limit any of those things? (excluding HD stuff of course)
At this point I'm not too interested in upgrading to the BCM970015, currently I'm only living in a SD world . Also, that would be $40 for the ATV1 and another $40 for the card = $80. At that price point it would almost be worth it to buy something else used. Like a nettop. Can you tell I'm a poor college student yet?
2) Can the usb port handle a usb hub? Like this one: http://xtecgo.com/usb-hub/usb-hub/
To have a usb wifi adapter, keyboard, mouse, hard drive, etc. connected all at once would be a cool feature.
3) Speaking of hard drives. Can you use an external hard drive that's connected to the ATV1 and then access that content over my network (because ATV has wireless) on my Windows 7 computer? How exactly does the networking work? Could it function like a "NAS"? Is it through SMB, Windows 7 Homegroup, Workgroup, etc..?
THANK YOU SO MUCH DUDES!!!