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If you're interested in Apple TV apps, also check out what Firecore is doing (http://firecore.com/atvflash-black http://firecore.com/atvflash-black). Their "aT
by rkudeshi 14y ago
If you're interested in Apple TV apps, also check out what Firecore is doing (http://firecore.com/atvflash-black http://firecore.com/atvflash-black).
Their "aTV Flash" product is $30 and can be added to a jailbroken Apple TV 2 (the third-gen ATV has yet to be jailbroken). It makes it easy to add weather, RSS, a browser, XBMC, Plex, and some other apps to the ATV.
Most notably, however, is their own "Media Player" app, which is a pleasantly robust media center (think XBMC if it were made specifically for the Apple TV). It handles almost any file format I throw at it without fail and is a much better experience than XBMC's own ATV app in my experience.
I can't wait for Apple to officially release the ATV SDK and really open the floodgates, but it feels like pre-March 2008 all over again (when Apple announced the iOS SDK).
- recuter 14y agoWhat's wrong with actual XBMC? The TV is an officially supported target platform and works quite well.
- rkudeshi 14y agoWhen I tried it, it crashed a lot. I mostly just use iTunes in the Cloud or hook up my computer to the TV nowadays though.
- cjensen 14y agoThe linked article isn't about hacking the AppleTV to run apps. It's about figuring out what the API looks like today as a way to guess what it will look like if released. The point is not to do interesting things today; the point is to be among the first to release an app if the ecosystem does open up.
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