1080P content on AppleTV finally?

[Funkatation]

Just read this interesting article.. supposedly there's room for this chip inside. Will be interesting to see if it really works!

http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3701

Looks like there's been a long thread here:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=55042

 

[jaw04005]

I find it hard to believe that Apple left an open mini PCIe slot in the Apple TV. Is it not already used by the wireless card?

I guess this is an option for hobbyists that want to run nothing but Boxee/Plex.

 

[tom1971]

Correct, you have to remove the WLAN card.

 

[Cave Man]

Importantly, this could breath new life into GMA950 Minis with XBMC. Pull the 802.11g Airport card to seat the Broadcom, then either use ethernet or a USB 802.11n stick for wifi. If Plex could adopt the code for using the Broadcom chip, that'd be even better. Since the chip has hardware decoding of h.264, MPEG-2 and VC-1, all the Blu-ray codecs are covered. The only issue would be if XBMC/Plex could extract the audio cores on the fly fast enough to prevent stuttering.