Out of the 15+ people I know with Apple TV's - every single one of them jailbroken and running Boxee or XBMC.
I have people asking me all the time if I know how to do that for them as well.
Apple's love affair with restrictions, DRM, and tech nerfing - render the ATV almost useless out of the box.
I understand why they do it... but man, imagine if you took it out of the box and it just worked... with everything.
I used iTunes to rip/encode all my CDs to ALAC. I just run all my DVDs and BRs through Handbrake and drop them into iTunes. Once the initial rips are completed, you can just queue up the encodes in HB and let 'em go. Imho, much better to have the smaller encoded files than the full rips, especially as your library grows.
They raised $28.5M and sold for $30? That doesn't sounds like a big win for anyone with equity.
It gets worse. AI have reported the story wrong - $30mil was the asking price. Indications are that Samsung paid below this figure and that they owners made a loss.
I could never get on with boxee but I run xbmc on my jailbroken ATV2 all the time as I've got a couple of hundred ripped DVDs (with the physical DVDs in a box in my loft) sat on my ReadyNAS and served up via UPNP....
still holding out hope for an ATV3 jailbreak at some point, but definitely not holding my breath this long after release.
I rip all of my DvD and BR too, but I converted them to .m4v files with handbrakes. I used Identify to get the metadata then I dragged everything into itunes. So no need to used XBMC in my case.
I thought Samsung had hobbies like stealing intellectual property.
Don't worry... Boxee is good at stealing. They stole the software for the Boxee Box and then illegally blocked users from using it the way the GPL requires. They admitted it too... and then said, "we wanted money" as their excuse.
There was no resolution to this issue and now everybody's BBox is (still) a useless hunk of garbage, solely at the will of the company to steal and keep what they stole.
They raised $28.5M and sold for $30? That doesn't sounds like a big win for anyone with equity.
Sounds like they burnt through their investment rounds and were nowhere near an inevitable IPO, sold they paid of their investors and washed their hands of the project.
Apple's history of starting as a small business and growing into a big corporation seems quaint in today's tech world. Now it's create a little product and sell the company to the highest bidder ASAP.
You mean you run xbmc because you like it, not because you need it for ripped DVDs.
I could in theory have put the ripped DVDs into my iTunes library on my Mac mini so I could watch them onto the Apple TV using home sharing but my readynas has a lot more space on it (4x 2Tb vs 500Gb) so to watch them from the readynas I need a upnp capable client on the atv and xbmc is my client of choice...
Also my readynas is always switched on and available on the network where my Mac mini isn't so the convenience of having them instantly available all the time without having to go upstairs, turn on the mac and wait for it to boot and iTunes to load bore being able to watch was another reason for putting them on the nas rather than the mac.
I could in theory have put the ripped DVDs into my iTunes library on my Mac mini so I could watch them onto the Apple TV
It works in reality, not only theory.
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Also my readynas is always switched on and available on the network where my Mac mini isn't
and this is because you choose to do it this way, not because you cannot. My Mac mini is on all the time and ready to watch my RIP'd DVDs thru the AppleTV.
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being able to watch was another reason for putting them on the nas rather than the mac.
Set the iTunes library on the NAS, leave the Mac mini on and that's all you need to do.
Again, you use xbmc because you want to, not because you can't do it the "regular" iTunes way
The million part got cut off when I was reading....i thought Samsung picked up a Boxee for $30. And was going to steal everything and make their own copy.
Watch, Samsung will make their own tiny, rounded square box and sue Apple for patent infringement. :mad::no:
This idiocy makes me furious.
Those are pictures of rokus and not boxee.
This idiocy makes me amused. Same old, same old. For you to castigate rain for lying in the same post you mislead with these unrelated images is classic.
This idiocy makes me amused. Same old, same old. For you to castigate rain for lying in the same post you mislead with these unrelated images is classic.
Because this pic would've gone against the point he was trying to make.
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Originally Posted by rain
Well, it's more of a guess.
Out of the 15+ people I know with Apple TV's - every single one of them jailbroken and running Boxee or XBMC.
I have people asking me all the time if I know how to do that for them as well.
Apple's love affair with restrictions, DRM, and tech nerfing - render the ATV almost useless out of the box.
I understand why they do it... but man, imagine if you took it out of the box and it just worked... with everything.
I used iTunes to rip/encode all my CDs to ALAC. I just run all my DVDs and BRs through Handbrake and drop them into iTunes. Once the initial rips are completed, you can just queue up the encodes in HB and let 'em go. Imho, much better to have the smaller encoded files than the full rips, especially as your library grows.
It gets worse. AI have reported the story wrong - $30mil was the asking price. Indications are that Samsung paid below this figure and that they owners made a loss.
Smart move Samsung, and Apple may get a run for its money. Too bad Boxee sold out though.
On the flipside, Boxee is just a glorified XBMC and is based on it with some extras bolted-on, so it is NOT THAT SPECIAL...
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Originally Posted by DaveMcM76
I could never get on with boxee but I run xbmc on my jailbroken ATV2 all the time as I've got a couple of hundred ripped DVDs (with the physical DVDs in a box in my loft) sat on my ReadyNAS and served up via UPNP....
still holding out hope for an ATV3 jailbreak at some point, but definitely not holding my breath this long after release.
I rip all of my DvD and BR too, but I converted them to .m4v files with handbrakes. I used Identify to get the metadata then I dragged everything into itunes. So no need to used XBMC in my case.
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Originally Posted by jkichline
I thought Samsung had hobbies like stealing intellectual property.
Don't worry... Boxee is good at stealing. They stole the software for the Boxee Box and then illegally blocked users from using it the way the GPL requires. They admitted it too... and then said, "we wanted money" as their excuse.
The details are at http://www.infinityoverzero.com/bbox/
There was no resolution to this issue and now everybody's BBox is (still) a useless hunk of garbage, solely at the will of the company to steal and keep what they stole.
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Originally Posted by ifij775
They raised $28.5M and sold for $30? That doesn't sounds like a big win for anyone with equity.
Sounds like they burnt through their investment rounds and were nowhere near an inevitable IPO, sold they paid of their investors and washed their hands of the project.
There's still Facebook.
I could in theory have put the ripped DVDs into my iTunes library on my Mac mini so I could watch them onto the Apple TV using home sharing but my readynas has a lot more space on it (4x 2Tb vs 500Gb) so to watch them from the readynas I need a upnp capable client on the atv and xbmc is my client of choice...
Also my readynas is always switched on and available on the network where my Mac mini isn't so the convenience of having them instantly available all the time without having to go upstairs, turn on the mac and wait for it to boot and iTunes to load bore being able to watch was another reason for putting them on the nas rather than the mac.
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Originally Posted by DaveMcM76
I could in theory have put the ripped DVDs into my iTunes library on my Mac mini so I could watch them onto the Apple TV
It works in reality, not only theory.
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Also my readynas is always switched on and available on the network where my Mac mini isn't
and this is because you choose to do it this way, not because you cannot. My Mac mini is on all the time and ready to watch my RIP'd DVDs thru the AppleTV.
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being able to watch was another reason for putting them on the nas rather than the mac.
Set the iTunes library on the NAS, leave the Mac mini on and that's all you need to do.
Again, you use xbmc because you want to, not because you can't do it the "regular" iTunes way
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Originally Posted by DaveMcM76
[...] to watch them from the readynas I need a upnp capable client
Why? All my rips are on a separate drive and iTunes plays them just fine. Just drag 'em in to iTunes from whatever device they're on.
This idiocy makes me furious.
How many lies has rain told? Answer: All of them :rolleyes:
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, not Boxee. I love my Boxee, why couldn't someone else buy them. I'm so sad right now.
Those are pictures of rokus and not boxee.
This idiocy makes me amused. Same old, same old. For you to castigate rain for lying in the same post you mislead with these unrelated images is classic.
Because this pic would've gone against the point he was trying to make.