Best thing to do with an ATV 1 now I have an ATV 2?

[mr1970]

Morning all

I bought an ATV 2 at Xmas to replace the 1. Love it, mainly just because I can keep it in a closed cabinet without it setting the house on fire - it's doing the same work as the old one, streaming from a server in the attic.

Tried to sell the ATV 1 on eBay and had the increasingly common crappy selling experience and can't be bothered going through it again, so I thought I'd have a play with it instead. So, suggestions welcome. I could...

- add a 500GB internal drive and run it as a local music device in the kitchen (through the TV in there)
- add ATVFlash
- do...something else?

I'm in the UK, incidentally, so that might limit my Hulu options.

ANy suggestions welcome

Cheers

 

[AdrianK]

Add a massive HDD, then install OS X Tiger on it and use it as a home server ^_^ (if you need one )

 

[Omne666]

Theres a upgrade card you can get...Broadcom BCM70012 or close to that ....makes it handle HD video.

Mind you...I just sold mine on eBay...helped pay for the replacement ATV2s I wanted to get. Easier solution.

 

[eTip]

Use it to stream music to another room....like an AE with the added ability to store conetent locally and be able to control it with the remote.

 

[Billy Boo Bob]

I'm keeping both of mine online, using the ATV Classic for video that requires Perian (I mostly convert MKVs to m4v in HandBrake). That way I don't have to bother with a JB on the ATV2.

My ATV2's primary mission, though, is MLB.TV for Dad, so I don't get to use it often for video files. I tend to watch them on my iMac with headphones while he watches baseball all day.

 

[Omne666]

Actually Im finding these days that if an ATV2 is running, my ATV1 in the main bedroom takes forever to load the library and then stutters and eventually (10 minutes later) crashes.

If no ATV2 is active, it works fine.

Be stuffed if I know why.

 

[pagansoul]

I have a TV1 with 120GB HD and have it on another TV. With the HD you can load your favorites and play them even if your comuter is off.