Yeah, doing things like that seem like a good reason to break down and buy a PS3 or a 360. That and BLUE RAY BABY YEAH! (at least with the PS3) It seems kinds silly that the best content I see on my 60" Sony is... Discovery Channel HD.
Let me know how your experiments go. Debating an AppleTV for the family room, for iTunes goodness and perhaps Netflix support, not to mention all the media we have stored locally.
I've been submitted by another boxee user or 3, and have gotten several emails that I will be added to the alpha list "real soon now" but have yet to actually get the magic email with dowload instructions.
I have a popcorn hour A110. It rocks. You should check it out, you slap a hard drive in it, and it will play pretty much (with only a few exceptions) every media format out there.
I'm churning through gobs of series on it. I hardly watch TV anymore, I watch stuff downloaded via bittorrent on my PCH.
Before you go shrugging it off as a pirate-only set top box check it out. There's a community behind the device, and all of it is legit. Don't let my watching unlicensed fansubbed anime bother you :)
Apple Trailers Video Pod casts Casgle streaming video Saya TV Netflix (via the hulu player) ...etc.
I'm in the process of backing up all my Farscape DVDs to it -- it plays DVD ISOs without having to transcode etc. It keeps all the menus, so it's like it's playing the DVD for all it's worth, not just video chapters.
Plus, from what I've read about boxee, I bet there would be a boxee client for it at some point. Both products are based around Linux.
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looks pretty awesome though, if it could do 1080p on the appletv port i'd consider replacing my xbox with it for sure
right now I am using the 360+xenonmkv for HD and XBMC for the rest
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I'm churning through gobs of series on it. I hardly watch TV anymore, I watch stuff downloaded via bittorrent on my PCH.
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Apple Trailers
Video Pod casts
Casgle streaming video
Saya TV
Netflix (via the hulu player)
...etc.
I'm in the process of backing up all my Farscape DVDs to it -- it plays DVD ISOs without having to transcode etc. It keeps all the menus, so it's like it's playing the DVD for all it's worth, not just video chapters.
Plus, from what I've read about boxee, I bet there would be a boxee client for it at some point. Both products are based around Linux.
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