Do you want to make home movies with the help of a digital camcorder? If so, Apple TV is the answer. You can watch your favorite movies, TV shows, videos, play games or listening to music on your HDTV home theater. How is this possible? By its wirelessly communication Apple TV (no clumsy cables to trip over) and with the help of Apple’s iTunes Store this device’s aim is to transfer the signal (streams media from one device to another) to whatever device you wish. Apple TV update is the new Apple’s 160 GB with different characteristics starting from its applications, operating system till the most important part – the hard drive (a higher capacity)– Apple released the new Apple TV model. The YouTube video browser feature and other new features were also added. Released after 2 months after Apple 40 GB was already on the market this Apple TV 160 GB did evoke opposite feelings.
So if you already bought a 40 GB Apple TV and the storage capacity is too small for you (especially if you save a lot of movies on the Apple TV or store the ones you haven’t seen yet or even rip more then 20 DVDs) what can you do? You can easily upgrade your Apple Tv at 160 GB if you follow the next steps: remove the old drive ( wiggle the ATA plug with your finger nails and peel the drive), plug your Apple TV HD to your computer (plug the IDE cable from your device to an USB adapter), type the command line: “PowerSmash-G5:~ adamnash$ diskutil list” (for those who use Power MAC G5); diskutil gives the volume of your Apple TV (for example /dev/disk2 and then the size of your device) . Change the “dd” command in order to have your AppleV img disk image.(dd means you copy an input device to an output device).
The command is: “dd if=/dev/disk2 of=/Users/Engadget/AppleTV.img bs=1024k “(in this case disk2 is the input (source drive) and “image” file” as output – located in home directory. Create a new drive (move the old disk image to a new hard drive; delete media partition using the command “ gpt remove -i 4 disk2 and the command diskutil eject disk2 “; create a media partition as big as your new drive using the command “gpt add -b 3141672 -i 4 -t hfs /dev/disk2 “ where 3141672 is the point where the empty space stars; format it and then delete the spotlight directories), install the new HD and this is it.
A second short method is: first copy the content of your HD with the command “dd if=/dev/disk2 count=1335 of=/dev/disk3 bs=1024k”. It is important for you to know that you need 2 USB to PATA/IDE adapters. (copy from disk 2 to disk 3). After this unmount the drive and then remove the current media partition. After creating the new media partition you have to unmount once again the device and type “gpt show disk*”, then unmount again the device, create the new one. Eject your drive and put it into your Apple TV.