![]() Also be careful taking off the sticky bottom from the ATV, I put a tear in mine being too eager! The guide says "snip the cables from the wireless card antenna", i just taped mine up in case I wanted to put things back. Use this guide: installing the Broadcom Crystalhd pci-e card into an AppleTV You'll to create a ATV Patchstick on a USB stick (minimum 512mb), boot from it, which will install the code. Type in BCM970012 into ebay and you should be able to pick one up for around £20. Buy the Broadcom Crystal HD decoder card. Personally, I think 2nd hand is the best option as you'll be invalidating the warranty the day you get it by opening it up and putting in the HD card.Ģ. Bought an Apple TV (guide prices below)Īpple Refurb Store: 40gb £135, 160gb £185 For months now i've been keeping an eye on the XBMC forums, with rumours from developer "Davilla" that he was writing code to take advantage of a plug-in Mini-PCI-E HD Decoder card, manufactured by Broadcom, called Crystal HD.įorget the rumours, its all true and the first versions of that code are now out (granted, still in development), so I had to take the plunge and find out if it was all reality.ġ. Okay, Apple do sell you "HD" movies and TV Shows, but these are carefully encoded at limited bitrates and in their propriety codecs at just the right size to squeeze every last processor cycle out of that 1.0ghz CPU.īut things are changing. ![]() Yes, you can install XBMC and Boxee on it and take advantage of the plethora of plug-ins (BBC iPlayer, You Tube, etc etc etc), plus external storage, network drives etc, but its basically a standard def streamer. Granted, its got near faultless integration with iTunes and iPhoto etc, but its tiny 1.0ghz CPU and no hardware acceleration have always held it back. ![]() Since its release back in 2007, Apple TV has been seen as a poor mans streamer due to the lack of true HD playback. ![]()
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