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Apple TV 2 Hacked to Inject Third Party Software

Apple TV 2 Hacked to Inject Third Party Software

Posted October 19, 2010 at 11:17pm by iClarified
The Apple TV 2 has been hacked to inject third party software via an unreleased version of Greenpois0n.

P0sixninja posted the screenshot below to announced the accomplishment and said:

Credits go to @nitoTV, @dhowett, and @westbaer for the awesome AppleTV loader


We'll keep you up to date with developments as they occur.


Apple TV 2 Hacked to Inject Third Party Software
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fez
fez - October 19, 2010 at 11:51pm
Can't be long now and my little Atv will be playing all movie formats
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ghdth
ghdth - October 20, 2010 at 12:10am
hope there's more to look forward to than more video formats
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Mortifer
Mortifer - October 20, 2010 at 3:28am
Yeah can't wait just bought one last week knowing they would make this little cheap device a great mediabox replacement
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James
James - October 20, 2010 at 10:55am
I didn't have to hack my cinematube and it plays all movie formats. And no hack will allow appletv to play 1080p. And no hack will give it usb ports. it's weak. Great job by the dev's but too bad about the hardware limitations. The only positive thing will be if they get apps working on it.
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lamont
lamont - October 20, 2010 at 6:52pm
Apple TV already has a USB port probably how it was hacked
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