Comments on: Patchstick 3.0 from AppleTV & More, available from now

By: Alficomi

Alficomi — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:33:00 +0000

I made a terrible mistake last year buying something called “patchstick.ca” I now own an appletv
brick.

By: Yolandagarcia4389

Yolandagarcia4389 — Fri, 06 May 2011 09:17:00 +0000

What’s up with this guy? $69.95 an hour, had some time to write about his disgust on how hard it is to install a free software that allows him to spend time in front of a tv? What an idiot!

By: jkm

jkm — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:30:10 +0000

Just paid for my membership. I've been hacking/patching my ATV since 1.0 and honestly i cringe every time there's a major update to anything because my time is valuable and I don't want to spend an entire evening fucking around in a shell updating binaries. I have the hope that it's worth $60 or whatever over the next year to have a process do this for me automatically.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:22:39 +0000

The people whinging about these people selling this product really need to stop and think before they spout off. I do not have time to do it myself, I have other things to do. I am quite capable of installing the free version but my time is worth more than $69.95 per hour. I just want to download something, install it and it works. None of this mubo jumbo – copy this, delete that, cross your fingers, then wash and repeat. Don't bag someone out for providing a service to people like me.

By: john

john — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:45:45 +0000

ok, i am one of those idiots that tried this. Paid the $25 just to find out that you need to pay another $5 for the usb port support. Yes I am an idiot. So I took a perfectly hacked atv and updated to 2.31. Is there a way I can go back and use the older patchstick and get my xbmc working again.

By: kevin

kevin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:07:44 +0000

looks like more “customers” to shill for this shoddy product don’t waste your time with the free or commercial product, bunch of clueless script kiddies charging for stuff that isnt even worth it for free.

By: andy

andy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:46:44 +0000

@Gilmour – I installed the full version and it works like a charm.
The free version does not provide the full functionality. You need to buy the full version

By: Gilmour

Gilmour — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:13:39 +0000

I’m a big fan of Boxee / Hulu but live outside the US, so I of course was interested to read on their website that they have Hotspot Shield running on ATV. Finally! Boxee offerings to Canadian IP addresses are limited to CNN news clips and little else of interest.

So I installed their patchstick and figured out that if offers absolutely nothing. There is no way in hell I am paying $65 to get free software running on my ATV. Back to atvusb…

Have any other developers worked on Hotspot Shield for ATV??

By: Mark T.

Mark T. — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:31:34 +0000

Apparently it does not include nitoTV or Couch Surfer. Those you have to do on your own.

So what is the point here again. $65 for Sapphire and XBMC…what a deal.

@MPM glad you’re happy with it. It just seems a lot of the ‘features’ they list, need to be added manually which defeats the entire purpose of a commercial solution like this.

By: mpm

mpm — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:42:35 +0000

Actually, atvusb only has online updates for Boxee/XBMC, whereas patchstick does a lot more, including online installs and de-installs for a bunch of other plugins and codecs.

Sure it’s just a bunch of scripts, but it’s a hell of a lot more convenient than atvusb, which is great for what it does, if all you want it Boxee/XBMC.

If you don’t want to pay for it, don’t. It’s not like anyone’s forcing you. I personally think it’s been worth the price, and though it’s had a few issues, the “company” has been pretty good and helpful about working through them.