OT: Does any of the pack own and operate an appleTV that's jailbroken?

[aspendawg]

I'm considering ordering one and getting rid of my cable. Just want to know if anyone who has one has been able to watch all MSU sports being broadcast. From what I've read it possible to watch what you want for free (pay-per-view fights, movies, etc..) But I'm just getting another opinion. Surely someone on here has one..

I'll still have access to WatchESPN and hailstate but it's the few events that fall in between that I'm worried about.

 

[Rog.sixpack]

Note: You have to have a 2nd Gen Apple TV to jailbreak it

No one has been able to jailbreak the 3rd gen hardware version.

I've jailbroken phones and iPads before, never an aTV, since I didn't have the hardware, but they go for serious bank on eBay.

 

[aspendawg]

Yeah i've been looking on eBay

I had an XBOX in college that was modded/jailbroken and it was the ultimate media center. I'm just wondering if I get this thing how hard is it going to be to navigate all the programs in order to find the sports I want to watch. The most basic cable in Alaska without HD channels is like $110.00 a month which is a waste for me. I only use it for sports..everything else I stream or download so it makes sense to have something with the XBMC on it.

 

[Beretta.sixpack]

dumb question

explain to me what a jailbroken apple tv is? I have the first and 2nd generation. had no idea there was a third.

Is it similar to when we had the direct tv HU cards back late 90s? Man, I had every direct tv channel Dtv offered for like 3-4 years.....good ole days.

 

[aspendawg]

I'm no programmer but here's my take

Basically you upload a file to your aTV from your Mac. It then allows you to run "third party" programs, those of which give you free streaming access to movies as they are released onto iTunes/Theaters, Sports (pay-per-view) and god knows what other apps are out there. It also allow you to play multimedia from any device. If you want a better feel for it then check out youtube or look up appletv2 jailbreak on ebay and they'll give you a good description. In a sense it's like those descramblers/card readers from the 90's that gave you all the channels.

My jailbroken XBOX allowed me to upload every nintendo/SNES game to it and play them and also I burned the actual Xbox games to my hard-drive and took them back to the Movie Gallery (RIP). Not exactly legal, but who cares

Did i touch anything that even resembles the answer you were looking for?

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

Jailbreaking is just unlocking the device, so it can run unauthorized things. This does cancel any warranty or support, but typically when you upgrade to a newer OS it makes it not-jailbroken again.

If you don't care about legalities, yes, you can get all sorts of free stuff. Just don't get caught and have the RIAA sue you for $12 million for watching 3 illegal movies. That's happened to several people at work. I jailbroke my phone once, but didn't see the allure and changed it back.

http://www.ijailbreakappletv3.com/