I’m occasionally an early adopter – and with some products (Sony minidisc) I end up in a technology dead-end. But with the AppleTV I couldn’t be happier. It’s a great way to play music for my living room and as Apple has released software updates, it has gotten even better, with movie downloads, rentals, Flickr feeds, Apple Remote (the iphone or ipod touch can be a really fully featured remote control).
Now that Elsie is moving into the phase of loving baby einstein, elmo and pixar movies, the AppleTV gives us an instant way to play any of these, and download video podcasts rom sesame street, superwhy and a ton of other children’s programming. But as we bought the pixar DVD box set and ripped them with handbrake, I found my 40Gb capacity was not enough for all my music and videos. So I decided to try to upgrade my AppleTV hard drive to 250Gb to future proof it for a while. After a few mistaken orders, I got the hard drive for <$100 and followed the instructions online, had to dig up a workaround for an error I kept getting, and finally ended up with everything working with a 230Gb capacity instead of 30Gb! Sweet!
