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<blockquote data-quote="hondoquast" data-source="post: 1343833" data-attributes="member: 196597"><p><strong>apple tv</strong></p><p></p><p>@unclehefty. long story short, to get what you want you need to "jailbreak" your apple tv. i know you say you're no too tech savvy, but if you google jailbreak apple tv, you'll come across several easy to follow tutorials.</p><p></p><p>short story long,(spoiler alert; there will probably be some techhie gobbledygeek that follows). i've been sitting on my apple tv for a year now, i was very dissapointed when i got it home and found myself in the same situation you're in. so i shelved it and eventually got around to buying the micro mini usb cable to jailbreak the little black box. i have tinkered with xbmc on my minimac, and still found the flow and simplicity of frontrow to be the best option for me. Xbmc is basically the OS that you would be jailbreaking your apple tv to. so as it stands i have still not jailbroken my apple tv yet. with the advent of osx lion, ios5, and icloud, i'm hoping a simpler solution will present itself. i'll have to wait till after christmas to explore this further. but i feel strongly that i'm going to end up jailbreaking my atv to xbmc. </p><p>a special note/thought, why did apple drop frontrow from it's lineup in osxlion? this and several other "changes" to vista-lion (lion is to snow leopard as vista is to xp), are thoroughly disappointing. i'll run lion on my "test mac", but am sticking with snow leopard, till the king of the bungle jungle is put down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hondoquast, post: 1343833, member: 196597"] [b]apple tv[/b] @unclehefty. long story short, to get what you want you need to "jailbreak" your apple tv. i know you say you're no too tech savvy, but if you google jailbreak apple tv, you'll come across several easy to follow tutorials. short story long,(spoiler alert; there will probably be some techhie gobbledygeek that follows). i've been sitting on my apple tv for a year now, i was very dissapointed when i got it home and found myself in the same situation you're in. so i shelved it and eventually got around to buying the micro mini usb cable to jailbreak the little black box. i have tinkered with xbmc on my minimac, and still found the flow and simplicity of frontrow to be the best option for me. Xbmc is basically the OS that you would be jailbreaking your apple tv to. so as it stands i have still not jailbroken my apple tv yet. with the advent of osx lion, ios5, and icloud, i'm hoping a simpler solution will present itself. i'll have to wait till after christmas to explore this further. but i feel strongly that i'm going to end up jailbreaking my atv to xbmc. a special note/thought, why did apple drop frontrow from it's lineup in osxlion? this and several other "changes" to vista-lion (lion is to snow leopard as vista is to xp), are thoroughly disappointing. i'll run lion on my "test mac", but am sticking with snow leopard, till the king of the bungle jungle is put down. [/QUOTE]
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