Some people even got OS X running on these as a discounted albeit limited Mac. More practically you could do this in order to run “XBox Media Center” (aka Kodi)

Some people even got OS X running on these as a discounted albeit limited Mac. More practically you could do this in order to run “XBox Media Center” (aka Kodi) as it was named back then. The reverse was also true when Apple released what was more or less the Apple TV interface as the Front Row app and some Macs even shipped with an IR remote. The same IR remote worked with several Macs of the time. Eventually everything went to streaming and the software to support locally networked libraries became a side feature and eventually discontinued.