[Geeba]

Based on the rumored benchmarks from Davilla, it'll do 1080p. What more do you want? 2160p?

Given that 480i lasted us 60 years, if 1080p does it for 1/2 that I'd be happy for a $99 device that'll do it...

With Mac software... take that away and I doubt it will get anywhere near that....

[davilla]

the CE4100 devices (boxee box, google TV/logitech) won't have bitrate limits, the appleTV will. this thing might be able to actually decode 1080p material and natively send it to the TV, but I guess that there would be severe limitations to this. might be a similar problem why the boxee guys dropped the tegra2 and went for intel instead.

Tegra2 was dropped because it could not handle [email protected]. Very disappointing and I ran into the exact same issue with the XBMC for Tegra2 port.

Look at what's inside the CE41xx for doing hw accelerated decode, then compare that to what's thought to be inside the A4 for doing the same. Hint, PowerVR SGX535.

[poofyhairguy]

Hint, PowerVR SGX535.

Intel just needs to buy them so they can open source those drivers.

[CrashX]

A4 Teardown:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple-A4-Teardown/2204/1

PowerVR SGX535
http://www.imgtec.com/factsheets/powervr...Family.pdf

[magnetik]

Engadget reports it will accept 1080p content imported from iTunes but scales it back to 720p on playback.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/30/confi...but-still/

[Soju]

Intel just needs to buy them so they can open source those drivers.

amen!

[CrashX]

Anandtech Detail Review:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3958/the-a...010-review

[CrashX]

First Apple TV hack released .. http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/13592467...2010-event

AppleTV 2G users: Welcome to the JB family! Right now, about all you can do is command-line stuff via ssh. You also have afc2 available, so you can use tools like ifunbox to move files around. These are the *very* early days of AppleTV 2G jailbreaking, so it’ll take some time for JB app developers to come up with methods to use your AppleTV 2G from the remote, versus the command line. PS: Your ssh password is “alpine”…please change it when you can

[davilla]

And here I sit in Tucson AZ on a business trip, ATV2 in hand but the wrong Apple IR remote (old one) and can't get into DFU mode

[CrashX]

Apple TV hacked to run weather app ... http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/20/apple...ather-app/

[BHSPitMonkey]

The jailbreak is out, and we can write our own software (called "Appliances") as pointed out above with the help of a build system (theos). If any of the XBMC team are willing, it definitely can happen.

[implex]

I will be watching this development LIKE A HAWK.

A NINJA HAWK.

Damn I want an ATV2 with XBMC so bad.

Props to all the good work!

[WishfulThinking]

Hi.

Just bought the new Apple TV, but found out that the new ATV OS (4.0) does not seem to be supported by XBMC / ATV USB Creator (it says 3.0.2 on this page: http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMC_for_Mac_on_Apple_TV).

Is this correct, and if so, what are my options?

If this has been mentioned before in this forum, please be so kind to point me in the right direction and close down this thread. Thank you.

[Jimmer]

The original ATV has a x86 chip - so it runs XBMC out of the box (once you've patchsticked it - that is).

The new ATV has one of apple's custom ARM chips - no one's ported XBMC to run on this yet. Although XBMC has been compiled to run on a beagleboard which has an ARM chip, so perhaps it possible... all really depends if there's an XBMC dev who's willing to give up the time and energy necessary to try to make it work....

Jim

[WishfulThinking]

Thank you for the prompt response. I guess I'll have to wait, then.