ATV Flash Reviewed @ DragonSteelMods.com

news · November 28, 2008

Hi,

It's Kristofer from DragonSteelMods, and I have a new review today that I

think your readers might find interesting.

Title: ATV Flash Reviewed ( -at -) DragonSteelMods.com

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Review Snipit:

"AppleTV was released over a year and half ago and has been a moderate

success. It is a device with great potential, unfortunately most of that is

left untapped due to Apple's desire to maintain strict control over

content. Apple limited the devices playback to certain video formats: H.264

and MPEG-4. Most techies that I know have videos encoded in more than just

these two formats. This restriction has a significant impact on AppleTV's

appeal.

Shortly after Apple TV was released, the hacker community started on making

it better. Since that time, the hacking community has accessed the

operating system, enabled playback of most video formats, allowed DVD

playback, installation of Firefox, Skype and EyeTV and much, much more.

These "new" features make the Apple TV much more attractive as a digital

media receiver.

So how do we add these "features" to the Apple TV? One way is to scour the

net for resources, download the proper files and then get them loaded onto

the Apple TV. Sounds pretty easy, right? Trust me, this method takes a

fair amount of time and effort. Now what if someone did all the legwork for

you and put it in a precompiled package? Well, Apple Core LLC did exactly

that. They created ATV Flash, which is an installer program that opens up

the OS X operating system within the Apple TV box with a simple USB thumb

drive.

Today we will look at this program and see if it is worth the price. Let's

get started…. "

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