Ford

Hi,

I picked up a 160GB Apple TV yesterday. It was an open box product (no scratches and everything intact) for $270 from Fry's Electronics. I'm sure they mis-marked it, but hey its quite a score.

I'm really interested in unlocking my Apple TV and adding some features such as Xvid playback and other stuff as well. Unfortunately as a PC owner it seems fairly difficult to accomplish the MOD (turning on SSH) for the Apple TV. I've seen some ok walkthroughs on youtube on how to do it with a PC but am really not interested in taking the Apple TV apart to attach the drive to the PC.

I've seen that there are one or two places where you can send your Apple TV to be modded but the patchstick tutorials seem simple enough if I had a linux distro or a Mac running OSX. Is there an easy way to build a patchstick using a Windows box? Are there places to send a memory stick to be loaded with the patchstick ready to go? Or another way I haven't read about yet?

Thanks for any suggestions

-Ford