AppleTV is now shipping

[Kevin Callahan]

On Mar 20, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Michael Stearne wrote:

> On 3/20/07, Larry Sica <lomion at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/20/07, LuKreme <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
>> > 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 ª¿TV.  My
>> > impression is that it needs iTunes to 'play' the media files, which
>> > makes it far less useful that it would otherwise be.
>> >
>>
>> That is the part that in unclear.  If you have to convert or if it
>> will just read them if it can find them.  If it does use iTunes then
>> it may be possible to use some sort of plug-in to play it (like a QT
>> plug-in perhaps?).
>>
>> I am very eager to get mine though.
>
> That's what I wondered from the beginning.  Can you install Quicktime
> Plug-Ins.  If that's the case you can play everything from Flash to
> DivX.  That would be great.  FrontRow on a machine handles any file
> Quicktime can.  When is the SSH hack going to come out? :-)

I have Flip4Mac installed -
QT can play WMV files

but iTunes doesn't (at least the last file I tried failed to play in  
iTunes)

in fact, I couldn't add the .wmv file to the iTunes library -
had to export to a QT format first

QT will play the file just fine with the F4M plugin

k