Comments on: Detailed Guide for enabling USB storage

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:23:06 +0000

It seems to me that since the USB port on both my AppleTV and Motorola DVR Cable box can be activated for storage, there should be a way to hook them both up to an external drive and let the AppleTV see the directory the cable DVR box dumps recorded shows to. The format is probably not handled by AppleTV directly, but you already have other players on your hack site that might handle it. I know my Haup DVR150 records in MPEG2 and Quicktime can play it back.

Sure would be a great way for APPLE to offer DVR without pissing off the networks. It seems that a simple USB cable and an AppleTV update is all that is necessary.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:51:27 +0000

Godspeed,

I had to do the same thing. You can find the 1.0 OS via torrents. Then, you’re gonna have to follow this tutorial. Worked like a charm…..

http://forum.awkwardtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=839&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

By: Godspeed

Godspeed — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:07:18 +0000

Hello,

I just purchased a AppleTV, software version 1.1 out of the box. Is it possible to hack this version?

Or must I find someone with a version 1.0 AppleTV and make a image of his disk? And then placing it in mine AppleTV. Or is this not possible license wise?

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:50:29 +0000

“Great oxymoron” for you tube functionality?
You probably mean “great homonym”, if you are trying to mock the misspelling.

By: simon

simon — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:19:03 +0000

you tube functionality?

Great oxymoron!

By: Baraka

Baraka — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:15:16 +0000

Do we lose the you tube functionality with this modification ?

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By: Ami

Ami — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:53:50 +0000

Hello Simplicity,

Have you tested the patchstick creation script under leopard?? I tried to patch my iTV but ran into difficulty while creating the patchstick.
“Copying Patchstick files… – Perian not found in /Library/QuickTime. Skipping…
”
The patchstick definitely seems to interact with the iTV during boot but ends up hanging and there is now ‘awkwardTV’ menu item.

Any thoughts?

thanks –Ami

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