Apple May Be On The Verge Of Kneecapping The Cable Industry. Finally.

Re: Apple May Be On The Verge Of Kneecapping The Cable Indu... by jasonlbaptiste on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @12:15AM (#1009466)

Sigh, I know. I wish AppleTV was a purely open platform. Let me throw apps on it, access websites I want, skin it, etc. The Mac Mini is the "real" appletv, except the interface doesn't work so well for a tv. Essentially here's what I want:

Put the mac mini, appletv, and time capsule in a blender. Appletv 10 foot interface, mac mini open-ness/computing ability, and time capsule size storage (TBs, not GBs).

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Re: Apple May Be On The Verge Of Kneecapping The Cable Indu... by CrazedGeek on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @12:21AM (#1009471)

Would a Mac mini and Boxee (http://www.boxee.tv/) work? It seems to match what you want (except for the storage space).

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Re: Apple May Be On The Verge Of Kneecapping The Cable Indu... by jasonlbaptiste on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @12:28AM (#1009477)

I had an older macbook hooked up to my tv, but it was lacking the stuff I mentioned and then some above.

I've been working on a hardware/software startup that does exactly this. It's running a pretty specific hardware combo with customized linux distro that works for the big screen for the price of a mac mini (with 6x the storage). It's heavenly.

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