Hello AppleTV, sometimes someone will find you annoying because you happen to do something ... or more likely, because you don't. I don't want you to change something about yourself just because, and you know, we are all annoying at times, and some people are too quick to criticize. Oh, forget about it, enough is enough ... you will get hacked again, NOW!

I have an AppleTV for many months now and even with good tools like Handbrake and the unfortunately discontinued VisualHub, it's really annoying, having to convert every AVI or DivX encoded movie to make it play on the AppleTV. Other then that, it's really a great device which doesn't require much attention.

Meaning the task at hand was to mod. the AppleTV to make it play all sorts of movies, not only those that were encoded in a format that has Apple's blessing. Nothing more, nothing less.

This was accompished easily, as described here: http://wolfpaulus.com/journal/hardware/atvusb.html. However, the most recent two software updates (3.0 and 3.0.1) broke this added functionality, but not for long ...