AppleTV is now shipping

[Chad Leigh]

On Mar 20, 2007, at 11:59 AM, LuKreme 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 =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 =20
> had no interest in reconverting into iTunes compatible files, much =20
> less importing into iTunes' database, not to mention that I don't =20
> have a drive large enough to hold everything in one place.
>
> I will be interested in what sorts of hacks there are to get the =20
> =F0TV to play generic dixx, ogg, or other 'non-Itunes' formats.
>

I am interested in seeing if my online DVD collection (DVDs in =20
standard DVD format that I ripped using mactheripper [all are my own =20
DVDs]) is playable with any hacks or anything or just supported.  =20
APple DVD Player plays them just fine but FrontRow, at least the =20
earlier version I tried, wouldn't...

I don't recompress them or make them any different format than what =20
is on the DVD.

Chad