Just to respond to a couple of questions with anecdotal experience:-
Yes FTV is much much faster than ATV2. If you are used to ATV2 you'll notice immediately in the UI but especially scrolling through a large library.
Movies will start faster.
It also doesn't crash when scrolling through a large library which my ATV2 did frequently.
Also so far i haven't had crashes when starting a movie which happened with the ATV2.
ATV2 was/is great but frequently seemed to need to be restarted (especially since I started using multiple profiles).
It seemed that the ATV2 would run out of memory and need to be rebooted.
I'm a UK FTV user and so without going through some hoops with vpn or dns you won't get any amazon services (neither will i benefit from any launcher apps if/when they get app stored).
Not sure if once/if FTV is released in the UK my US FTV will become "amazon enabled" but i presume so (fingers crossed)
FTV also knocks spots off Geniatech ATV510 (with android or linux) which could never replace my ATV2 due to relative difficulty getting latest xbmc builds on it and general "quirks" .
FTV remote is great and bluetooth so you can tuck the box into a cupboard.
WAF is ok with Llama additions.
So its with a sad heart that I have retired my ATV2 after many many years of sterling service. I'll be crying all the way to ebay with it. http://forum.xbmc.org/images/icons/tongue.gif
Yes FTV is much much faster than ATV2. If you are used to ATV2 you'll notice immediately in the UI but especially scrolling through a large library.
Movies will start faster.
It also doesn't crash when scrolling through a large library which my ATV2 did frequently.
Also so far i haven't had crashes when starting a movie which happened with the ATV2.
ATV2 was/is great but frequently seemed to need to be restarted (especially since I started using multiple profiles).
It seemed that the ATV2 would run out of memory and need to be rebooted.
I'm a UK FTV user and so without going through some hoops with vpn or dns you won't get any amazon services (neither will i benefit from any launcher apps if/when they get app stored).
Not sure if once/if FTV is released in the UK my US FTV will become "amazon enabled" but i presume so (fingers crossed)
FTV also knocks spots off Geniatech ATV510 (with android or linux) which could never replace my ATV2 due to relative difficulty getting latest xbmc builds on it and general "quirks" .
FTV remote is great and bluetooth so you can tuck the box into a cupboard.
WAF is ok with Llama additions.
So its with a sad heart that I have retired my ATV2 after many many years of sterling service. I'll be crying all the way to ebay with it. http://forum.xbmc.org/images/icons/tongue.gif
