Improving Apple TV
MacWorld has a review of aTV Flash , a software enhancement for the Apple TV which - for $50 - adds some really useful features to the Apple TV : Support for more file formats Play DVD files Use external USB Disk Drives Surf the Web I'd pay money for the first three....wait a minute, I guess I have to.. File formats supported include: .avi, .dvix, flv, .m4v, .mp4, .mov, .mpeg, .mpg, .ogg, .ogm, .rm, .rmvb, .wmv, .xvid .mkv format supported up to 480p resolution (hardware limited) DVD files (VIDEO_TS/VOB) Audio support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3 Subtitle support for SSA and SRT I really wish that Apple would add these kind of features to the Apple TV ; it would make it a much more useful device. But in the mean time, aTV Flash looks like the thing to get. Note that, as MacWorld says, it's a hack; installing it means you won't be able to get software updates from Apple, but I think the pluses out-weigh that minus. It's not like Appl