“After endless hacking by a dedicated group at AwkwardTV, the Apple TV has yielded to their efforts. A user Turbo posted a method to enable USB support. After the group had tried for literally 6 days straight, patching kernels, adding kext’s, massaging files and other zane the USB works,” Tutorial Ninjas reports. “USB keyboard and mice!”
Tutorial Ninjas reports, “Next up? Honestly, the sky is the limit at this point. Go buy one.”
Full article here.
How to enable Apple TV USB ports: here.
[UPDATE: 2:09 pm EDT: Added “via hack” to headline for clarification.]
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to say.
I’m still not buying one.
I’m gunno go PS3, cuz it’s got a Blu Ray built in.
REAL HD
Ah, the $299 Mac has finally arrived.
Mine arrived yesterday. After the synch, it works well. I see no need to hack it as it works as I want it to.
Apple said they wouldn’t release a low end Mac. They didn’t say they wouldn’t release a low end box that could be hacked to be a regular Mac.
Entry level Mac: $300
Those crazy kids.
I’m not interested in taking apart my electronic equipment. Don’t trust myself not to screw it up. I get nervous opening the door on my G4 PowerMac, and that’s one of the simplest computers to fiddle with ever.
I also am scarred by squirrels, rabbits, and men wearing overalls.
Worst demo video I’ve ever seen on the net. Can’t tell what he’s doing, and don’t understand why you would want to do it.
The room looked like my son’s dorm room. This guy has gotta get out more.
Also, MDN…. the headline is a tad missleading. The USB has been enabled by a hack, not apple. I know you don’t say that, but the headline kinda leads that way.
“….and that’s one of the simplest computers to fiddle with ever.”
Actually the G5 and MacPro are even easier
Still Underwhelmed….
I looked at one in the apple store… Incredibles and Pirates looked AWFUL on the LCD display…
Pictures looked great – but why did it look so bad?
(I love Apple and it’s products – I have a G5 powermac at home – so I am NOT an apple basher)
Why do you think it looks bad on LCD? LOL, do you understand electronics at all? LOL
My Guess…
Leopard comes with new QuicktimeHD for Mac and M$ Windoze.
The picture quality of movies looks like crap on a LCD HD tv because:
1) it is still a small image size (640×480, right?)
2) and is still compressed ALOT…much more than a DVD
Thus I am not getting on board til they at least start offer a basic HD format for download (1280×720) at better compression rates
If it’s an “entry level Mac”, it’s REAL low-end. 1 GHz CPU, 256 MB RAM. Yeah, you’re going to be doing a lot with that! Yes, I know there are folks smarter than me just looking for the challenge of the week.
But, if anything, it demonstrates that the Mac Mini is over-priced and under-engineered. If @TV can integrate the power supply, why not the Mini? If @TV can have a dedicated video processor with its own RAM, why not the Mini? Were they to add a proper processor, adequate RAM, and a better drive, they could release it as a Mini II for $399, and add a proper, expandable, desktop (say, single dual-core Xeon, room for two drives, and an expansion slot or two) for $999. Then watch them try to keep up with demand.
Ah, my Apple TV is inside my entertainment center behind glass. What use would I and others have with anything wired to the USB port, except for storage or connection to some other component. Any peripheral like a gaming controller, mouse, or keyboard would absolutely have to be wireless. Am I missing something here?
Oh great. I see you’ve entered into the practice of misleading headlines to generate page hits. With the headline “Apple TV USB support is now enabled” one does not think that some hackers took a week to get this done. The headline you were looking for was “Apple TV USB support is now hacked”, or maybe “Hackers enable Apple TV USB”.
And speaking of TV, Uneasy Silence is Giving Away a Wii! Wheeee! Check it out:
http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/03/10120/
I like “Hackers enable…”. That would be a MUCH more accurate headline.
MDN with bullshit headlines to generate surplus hits?
Surely you jest…
Nice, but still missing the firewire port. I don’t get it. No brainer… ext drives? DV camera? hello Apple?
Sniff….sniff…it brings geeky tears to my eyes.
“I also am scarred by squirrels, rabbits, and men wearing overalls.”
Well, I hope the scars aren’t too deep. Men wearing overalls can be dangerous. There was this time in Little Rock, oh, no, nevermind.
MDN: Change the title of this post. It is misleading to people that this is an OFFICIAL APPLE enabled support. It should be titled :”Apple TV USB Support is now enabled via HACK”
If the hacking was “endless” then wouldn’t they still be doing it?
When they run a full-blown version of OS X (with a working Finder) and not the crippled tv version then I’ll listen.