skinz Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Anyone using one of these? If so could you advise on how good or not they are? I'm a novice btw. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magilla Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Anyone using one of these? If so could you advise on how good or not they are? I've got one, I bought it because it's perfect for the bedroom since it's totally silent and has a decent remote control. It was bought with the expectation that it'd be able to jailbreak it within a few weeks and stuff XBMC on it. A bit of a mistake as there doesn't seem to be any exploit to facilitate jailbreaking as yet. As such, it's essentially a paperweight. Haven't turned it on beyond checking if it worked on day one. I can imagine it's pretty good if you're not bothered about being locked to Apple and iTunes, but none of my media is, so it's essentially useless until I can jailbreak it. So, in essence, has potential, but in it's native form it's useless (for me). I'm sure an exploit will be found eventually, if not then it's a nice Xmas present for my nephew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denomis Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 You can hack the apple tv to put xbmc on it. Also you aren't locked to just iTunes stuff it will play any media as long as its in the right format via home sharing on iTunes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashtag Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 I've got one, I bought it because it's perfect for the bedroom since it's totally silent and has a decent remote control. It was bought with the expectation that it'd be able to jailbreak it within a few weeks and stuff XBMC on it. A bit of a mistake as there doesn't seem to be any exploit to facilitate jailbreaking as yet. As such, it's essentially a paperweight. Haven't turned it on beyond checking if it worked on day one. I can imagine it's pretty good if you're not bothered about being locked to Apple and iTunes, but none of my media is, so it's essentially useless until I can jailbreak it. So, in essence, has potential, but in it's native form it's useless (for me). I'm sure an exploit will be found eventually, if not then it's a nice Xmas present for my nephew my thoughts exactly, im sure they will be able to jailbrake it,but nothing as yet :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashtag Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Can you Jailbreak the Apple TV V3? im after either a 1st or 2nd gen one myself 1st and 2nd gen can be jailbreaked, theres loads of vids on youtube shows you how. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magilla Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 You can hack the apple tv to put xbmc on it. Not the ATV3 (as yet), though I'm sure there will be an exploit at some point. Also you aren't locked to just iTunes stuff it will play any media as long as its in the right format via home sharing on iTunes. Unfortunately, none of my media is in an apple friendly format. flac for audio, mkv containers for video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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