Comments on: More homebrew plugins, but where are those from Apple?

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æƒ…è¶£ç”¨å“ — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:16:52 +0000

good

By: kev

kev — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:22:10 +0000

is there a way to run VLC player on an AppleTV? Or at least play AVI’s?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 20 May 2007 03:50:26 +0000

I’m thinking one of the updates is going to be that you can start watching a movie immediately after purchasing (or renting… hopefully forthcoming) it from the iTunes store. Last night I did an impulse buy of A Bug’s Life. In iTunes, you can watch the movie as soon as it caches enough of it on your computer. Unfortunately, I cannot sync a movie to my Apple TV until the movie has completed its download as far as I can tell. I tried after a few minutes at least and couldn’t and then went to sleep…
That would be a fairly basic feature to add.
I’m thinking that once the iPhone is out or after Leopard is out and the Fall is rolling along, updates will surface as announcements are made and marketing hype surfaces for the Apple TV, iPhone, and Leopard/Macs, as well as new iPods for the holiday season. It will be an interesting Fall.

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Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:46:41 +0000

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By: Howard Scott

Howard Scott — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:34:55 +0000

personally it’s the first batch of plugins from apple that is holding me back from upgrading the HDD in the machine. I am a bit concerned that apple could, if they wanted to, do some kind of check on it to see if it’s still the default 40gb unit, and if it’s not, disable future plugin or upgrade support. I suppose I could put the old one back in, but that kind of defeats the object.

once people have done that it’ll make a HDD upgrade feasibvle in my mind – but the ultimate has to be the plugin community, like it is for MS MCE.

Imagine – MS being more open that Apple!!

By: rexonor

rexonor — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:48:52 +0000

Yes a plugin to execute ruby scripts would be amazing. Any chance this can be implemented? Ruby is very versitile and great for scripting.

By: Aron T

Aron T — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:46:01 +0000

Is it possible to install multiple 3rd-party plugins or can you only use one at a time? I haven’t been able to find that information anywhere..

By: Cory

Cory — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:23:55 +0000

I think apple will release an update at the NAB show. Hd movies on the itunes store and an update to apple TV that allows us to use usb devices for storage with those Big HD downloads! cheers.

By: ernest

ernest — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:40:41 +0000

would it be possbile to have Ruby support as well?

By: Trouvetout

Trouvetout — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:43:47 +0000

3) The Way I see It would be a Badge over “Settings” Menu (like the one on “Mail” for new messages)
And an new section in settings to allow us to enable/disable , update/download plugins.

The Badge idea lead me to the same idea for a “Mail” plugin : Badges
Probably same wil go for RSS

This badge thingy would need to be customizable (show/hide, size, colors)

The hack way would be a RSS feed with plugins an a scrit that install them (that could be a wrong idea : opening doors for malware)
that’s why a request @ Apple to implement, host and check those plugin in the regular ATV release