Potential Capabilities

• Connect a TV tuner for recording
• Connect USB DVD drive for playback of CDs and DVDs
• Airport-like base station
• Flash video support
• Fileserver
• Webserver
• USB printserver
• Network attached storage
• Radio streaming player
• MPD Server
• Cluster node
• Arcade emulator
• Run Linux
• Software Supported: VLC, Firefox, VNC, sshd, ARD
  • for vnc / ARD use normal instructions for vnc kickstart [1] [2] etc
• Run Joost, making the Apple tv a Joost set-op box
• Work as an ICE (In Car Entertainment) unit

Please remember that there is only 256MB RAM available for everything. Servers usually use a lot of memory.