AppleTV is now shipping

[LuKreme]

On 20-Mar-2007, at 09:19, Larry Sica wrote:
> appleTV's are now shipping it seems.  I got a notification that mine
> is enroute from China.  Should get it by Friday.  I'll  give a full
> review when it arrives.
>
> I am looking forward to it, especially in light of some of the recent
> information

I'm looking forward to seeing/reading more about the =F0TV.  My =20
impression is that it needs iTunes to 'play' the media files, which =20
makes it far less useful that it would otherwise be.

I have quite literally hundreds of gigabytes of divx files that I had =20=

no interest in reconverting into iTunes compatible files, much less =20
importing into iTunes' database, not to mention that I don't have a =20
drive large enough to hold everything in one place.

I will be interested in what sorts of hacks there are to get the =F0TV =20=

to play generic dixx, ogg, or other 'non-Itunes' formats.

What I have right now is smb mounts for Anime, Movies, Kids, Adult, =20
TV, UK, and Music (Adult is movies not for the kids, Kids is not for =20
the adults, and movies is generic, so The Departed is in Adults, =20
Happy Feet in Kids, and Wallace and Gromit in plain old Movies :)

I mount all those on the wintendo which has s-video out to watch them =20=

on TV, or on my own Mac to watch them on my 20" flat panel.

VLC plays everything but the music, and iTunes handles that via =20
library sharing.

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