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I understand the desire to hack and tweak. That said, for my household, AppleTV is about the wife and I being able to watch Netflix, homeshare pictures and (more important) movies with minimal hassle.

Hadn't realized AppleTV v2 had a market. Tempted to upgrade and make some cash.

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Jailbreak, install XBMC and use your iPhone/iPad as a remote. You can thank me later.

So, for a very long time, I had an XBMC box setup on my projector, got a AppleTV, pretty quickly stopped using the XBMC machine, and now I've since repurposed the machine as a Steam Big Picture box, (Which sadly won't run on an XBMC Apple TV)

Out of curiosity, what functionality in XBMC do you find particularly worthwhile?

Wider format compatibility - ATV doesn't support AVI, and won't play direct from either UPNP or SMB.

That's a fine reason.

mkv?

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