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Boxee has all kinds of news, still can be wiped out with software update

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Oct 21 2008

Boxee, the XBMC adaptation for various platforms including the AppleTV has all kinds of news this week.  Firstly and formostly, they are now able to stream Hulu, MyspaceTV (whatever that is) and CBS programming to your AppleTV.  Oh, and Comedy Cental (Read: Daily Show and Colbert Report) too.  Very cool. They also have support from content from Last.fm and Flickr (AppleTV also does Flickr pictures) as of last month…. 

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Boxee announces first hardware partner deal, more info next month

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Nov 12 2009

They say competition is a gift to help you change, so good news for Apple TV fans as that particular set-top box now has even more competition when it comes to streaming entertainment, as the Boxee team have announced a partnership with a company which will bring a set top box equipped with the team

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Apple updates AppleTV to 3.0, adds iTunes Extras, Genius Mixes and Internet radio

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Oct 29 2009

When Apple says AppleTV is just a hobby, they really mean it.  A lot of you were hoping for more with Apple TV 3.0.  After two years since the last update, we were too.  But Apple’s big surprises for AppleTV 3.0 are, in the words of Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services:

with Apple TV 3.0 they get great new features including iTunes Extras, Genius Mixes and Internet radio.

Apple TV 3 also includes a new Interface and redesigned main menu that put recently purchased and top media content on top.  We’ll get some screenshots as soon as we do this update (we’re not sure we want to kill Boxee for this).  Press release follows:

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AppleTV 3.0 update coming soon with iTunesLP

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Oct 29 2009

Today’s new EULA for iTunes throws up a pretty obvious clue that an AppleTV 3.0 update is coming up – perhaps in a matter of days.  The neglected hobby of Apple’s isn’t dead yet folks.  Besides iTunesLP, is there any possibility of something useful like Hulu or Netflix showing up on there?  Will it be enough to convince people to update and remove Boxee?  We’ll find out soon enough.

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Will GoogleTV light a fire under the AppleTV?

Avatar for Seth Weintraub Mar 18 2010

The New York Times last night revealed that Google, in partnership with device manufacturer Sony and peripherals manufacturer Logitech, were working on a ‘GoogleTV’.

Yes, it is exactly what it sounds like and probably inevitable for the company that knows no bounds in their reach for the digital consumer.

But are there chairs being thrown in Cupertino? Perhaps, but they’ve had it coming. AppleTV could’ve been so much more than it is. Apple could own this market, yet they’ve let all matter of competitors come in and take some space, including Boxee which rode to prominence hacked into an AppleTV.

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iPad's A4 is built on an ARM Cortex A8 processor, not A9 multi-core?

Avatar for Seth Weintraub Feb 28 2010

Jon Stokes at Ars has an interesting take on the iPad’s A4 processor.  He says it doesn’t have ARM’s next-generation Cortex A9 design which supports multicore processors.  Instead, he contends that it is a single-core ARM Cortex A8 design which is along the same lines as the current iPhone 3GS, iPod touch as well as the Palm Pre, Droid, etc.

As I watched the videos and read the reports of the iPad in action at the launch event, I was thoroughly convinced that the device was built on the out-of-order Cortex A9, possibly even a dual-core version. But it turns out that the the A4 is a 1GHz custom SoC with a single Cortex A8 core and a PowerVR SGX GPU. The fact that A4 uses a single A8 core hasn’t been made public, but I’ve heard from multiple sources who are certain for different reasons that this is indeed the case. (I wish I could be more specific, but I can’t.)

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What features would you most like to see added to AppleTV?

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Feb 10 2009

* Can I play my DIVX, AVI, MPG, OGG etc. movies from my network please?
* App Store
* Serious 3D Multiplayer Network Gaming
* Build it into a display
* Make it the size of an Airport Express
* 1080P
* Hulu
* Buy Boxee and throw it on there
* I see/put answer in the comments