XP I’ll grant you. 95/98 would be a reaaaaaaal stretch outside of legacy niche use cases.
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iTunes Store Won't Work on Original Apple TV and Windows XP/Vista PCs as of May 25
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Eh, does this theoretical TV not have HDMI ports?
If ten years later you had to plugin an external box to keep watching DRM'd content, I can't see how it would be any worse than a TV without anything builtin.
iOS 7 was the last version of iTunes on Power PC.
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My 2006 Sony KDF 50" Projection TV still works with Apple TV and HDMI HDCP.
So, what do with my gen 1 Apple TV now? Any cool ideas?
This is literally every Smart TV being sold right now.
I don't remember if you were able to sync those with a computer. If you can then you can still limp along that way. Otherwise add it on to the heap of discarded consumer electronics that the companies that made them decided were obsolete.
that reminds me of this article on New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/magazine/what-i-learned-from-watching-my-ipads-slow-death.html
I still have one of these. I'm looking to repurpose it. I've tried installing OSX Tiger on it but it was way too damn slow to function even as a single purpose Mac i.e. an iTunes server. Anybody have any ideas?
I think the new version of AppleTV should have a huge harddrive or user serviceable SSD or atleast a SSD reader expandable. The Amount of onboard storage in too less.
I just was looking at my old apple tv today. Deciding whether to trash it or give it away to a collector.
I wonder if they're trying to close off the ability for pirates to remove DRM from iTunes content.
Windows 7 and newer probably have improved DRM that make it harder to rip content.
Of course, I have absolutely no doubts whatsoever that content will continue to be ripped; if you can watch something on your computer, it can be copied. They can make it difficult but eventually someone always figures it out.
Windows 7 and newer probably have improved DRM that make it harder to rip content.
Of course, I have absolutely no doubts whatsoever that content will continue to be ripped; if you can watch something on your computer, it can be copied. They can make it difficult but eventually someone always figures it out.
I suspect they're dropping support for TLS older than 1.2. I got something similar from Microsoft about Office 365 and basically ending all Windows XP access. There are a number of issues with older versions of TLS.
Yep major pushes away from older TLS all over the place. I know in my field that I am seeing multiple partners and even products within company have drop dead timelines this year to drop support for older TLS. Actually been working on that for our products and servers in my group.
I am sure those download or stream movies from the iTunes store daily. Especially the ones without internet access. 4k works great from a floppy disk
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1898610_1898625_1898627,00.html
As the original Longhorn releases it was great but there were so many issues with security that by the time of public release it was more of a bloated mess, a skinned version of XP I believe. Win 7 however, was everything Vista should have been. My home servers still run it and have been rock solid.
I initially thought it would be a TLS or Cipher reason but that wouldn’t explain Vista which does support 1.2 natively in the OS. I think it’s more likely that they are dropping it just because MS no longer does.
And those companies probably won’t use iTunes anyway.
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Thing is, no one can provide lifetime support of a single product. Plus, Windows XP and Vista are pretty old now.
If so, than not updating the original Apple TV (few text files) by Apple is just pathetic and arrogant. :-(
This does not make sense, if they are disconnected they don't use iTunes now do they.
Yes, you are right.
It runs on Tiger, you can install OS X tiger on it but it is slooooowwwww, I know, I did.
Maybe use it as a server.
You can still put music on it and listen to it.
Yes you can.
I did too and it was horribly slow.
Don't know, put Linux on it, a VPN server, a Ubiquiti controller, just some ideas.
Seems to me nobody ever buys stuff from the 1st generation Apple Tv so why should they still put time in it to update, it's a decade old.
I still have on but in a far away location, my girl uses it in Indonesia.
I had one of these. Think I got it in 2010 and had it until 2012 before I upgraded to the series 3. I’m suprised it’s still being supported by anything.