Comments on: One more reason why we love NitoTV: console emulators http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/11/29/one-more-reason-why-we-love-nitotv-console-emulators/ Get more from your shiny box of joy Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:31:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: urashid http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/11/29/one-more-reason-why-we-love-nitotv-console-emulators/comment-page-1/#comment-11411 urashid Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:14:54 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/11/29/one-more-reason-why-we-love-nitotv-console-emulators/#comment-11411 I was very excited about using nitoTV on my newly acquired AppleTV (160GB for $299 at Costco), but was rather underwhelmed by it. Don't get me wrong, I think it is a great accomplishment to get that application integrated and running on AppleTV and I don't mean to take anything away from that. But my simple goal is to use AppleTV as a video-end-point for playing my VIDEO_TS ripped movies store on a NAS. And nitoTV almost gets me there. Almost. There are just enough hiccups (that require my intervention) that it doesn't pass the Wife test (and the pre-schooler test, who can work the DVD player and DVR no problem). If I could put together a wishlist, it will be like this: 1. Play ripped DVDs from network 2. Play like a DVD player (pause, ff, rew, menus, chapters) 3. Remember last position on stop 4. Show metadata And I can see how some people love the idea of emulators, but shouldn't that go into a separate application. Anyway, keep up the good work and congrats on what you have achieved so far. I was very excited about using nitoTV on my newly acquired AppleTV (160GB for $299 at Costco), but was rather underwhelmed by it. Don’t get me wrong, I think it is a great accomplishment to get that application integrated and running on AppleTV and I don’t mean to take anything away from that. But my simple goal is to use AppleTV as a video-end-point for playing my VIDEO_TS ripped movies store on a NAS. And nitoTV almost gets me there. Almost. There are just enough hiccups (that require my intervention) that it doesn’t pass the Wife test (and the pre-schooler test, who can work the DVD player and DVR no problem).

If I could put together a wishlist, it will be like this:

1. Play ripped DVDs from network
2. Play like a DVD player (pause, ff, rew, menus, chapters)
3. Remember last position on stop
4. Show metadata

And I can see how some people love the idea of emulators, but shouldn’t that go into a separate application.

Anyway, keep up the good work and congrats on what you have achieved so far.

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