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Combined with the Aeon skin it is a beautiful thing.
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The XBMC library mode is much better than iTunes. XBMC is living-room ready, wife-approved media player (one of the best on the market, in fact). As a bonus, you don't have to convert anything.
> As a bonus, you don't have to convert anything. And that's the biggest bonus imho. Most people will watch pirated content on XBMC (torrented TV shows etc) and transcoding everything is pretty annoying.
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In my opinion, some ION2 nettop with minimal Ubuntu and XBMC would be better option than WDTV. More expensive, yes, but not that much[1] and definitely provides better experience. [1] Note that I'm in EU-land, where AppleTV is 120 EUR, which is 160 USD. Acer/Asus/Zotac/other nettop vendors do not have the same problem with currency conversion that Apple does.
I've got XBMC on an Acer Revo nettop, and having a little always-on Ubuntu server has various other uses for me. Apt-getting installs/updates to XBMC rather than jumping through whatever hoops you need to for this is a blessing too. One downside, you'd need to buy a 3rd party remote and USB-IR receiver and get it working with Ubuntu/XBMC. (At least I did, I think the newer version has one built in).
I've been running XBMC as my media centre for years now, first on a hacked XBox (original) and then on a hacked Apple TV (first gen). It's a great piece of software, happily streaming from my NAS box, playing music, etc. Not found anything it doesn't play yet. And there are remote control apps for iPhone and Android too!
But why? Handbrake can convert most video formats to something Apple TV-compatible and play them on the Apple TV through iTunes.
The XBMC library mode is much better than iTunes. XBMC is living-room ready, wife-approved media player (one of the best on the market, in fact). As a bonus, you don't have to convert anything.
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> As a bonus, you don't have to convert anything. And that's the biggest bonus imho. Most people will watch pirated content on XBMC (torrented TV shows etc) and transcoding everything is pretty annoying.
Bought content is usually an even bigger pain in the arse to transcode. I am currently trying to rip some DVDs of mine and it is an incredibly frustrating experience.e
http://lifehacker.com/355281/dvd-rip-automates-one+click-dvd...
I'd put my money on plex as an easier way to manage content and stream it from a box elsewhere in the house.
(I have plex running on a 2009 Mac Mini and it works really well)
Plex http://plexapp.com is based on an earlier version of XBMC. They have it running on iPhone, iPad and someone hacked it onto the Apple TV and did a similar video a few months ago: http://www.vimeo.com/16479085 I'd put my money on plex as an easier way to manage content and stream it from a box elsewhere in the house. (I have plex running on a 2009 Mac Mini and it works really well)
I just wish the tetherless JB would be released already.
Maybe they aren't evil and keeping it from you (not "releasing" it), instead, don't have a working version they could just press a button and release?
I'm sure I'm not the only person in this predicament.