I have abandoned my attempts to watch Netflix on my AppleTV, as I recently purchased the Samsung Home Theater HD-BD1250, which includes Netflix Instant Viewing. With a fast internet connection, it is watchable but there is some choppiness due to the AppleTV’s slow CPU speed of 1GHz but it works… I have used this with FireFox through the NitoTV Applications Menu and a keyboard and mouse to run Netflix Instant Viewing on my AppleTV. The reason I am not sure if it works, as I already manually installed v2.0 of Silverlight, and I cannot tell which version is currently running. I am not sure if this is correct information, and I have asked them to confirm in another posting here on the Forum. This can be installed through the Maintenance > Install Extras menu.” “The 3.0 version of Silverlight is included with the current version of Flip4Mac. I looked for alternatives and stumbled upon Brandon Holland’s Couch Surfer, a Safari webkit based browser made specifically for the AppleTV.ĪTVFlash technical suppport sent me this email: So I found instructions on how to install Firefox and get it running on the AppleTV ( Firefox – AwkwardTV ), first thing I notice is that one needs a keyboard and mouse for Firefox to be useful. I started this primarily to try and get Netflix’s Watch It Now running on the AppleTV, so the next step was to install a browser and SilverLight 2.0. I was now able to SSH and FTP to my AppleTV and boy was I estatic!.

I decided to go this route and created my patchstick. You insert your usb flash drive and run the software and in a couple of minutes you have a ready to go patchstick. For those faint of heart, there is also the atvusb-creator, this project has a Mac OS X application that does all the hard work for you. It allows you to create the patchstick to install the stuff you want, most others are already configured to install specific packages.

The best patchstick project I found was one from Google Code’s website, ATV-bootloader.

The patchstick is basically a USB flash drive that has been configured to boot the AppleTV and run scripts that automatically add features to the device. Upon further research I found the concept of the ‘patchstick’. I had read before that the only way one can hack the AppleTV was to take the hard drive out, and to be honest that may have been one of the biggest deterrents that kept me from hacking it.

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