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XBMC on Apple TV 2 First Impressions

My ATV2 arrived today, which I ordered straight away after I header on twitter that the xbmc team had ported to iOS .  Obviously im being a bit bleeding edge here.  However I'm currently watching a 1080p trailer from my nas with zero visible frame drops. XBMC is a bit buggy currently but we'll let them off its only been out a couple of days. My main issue currently is the resolution of the AppleTV 2 it natively outputs in 1280x720 or 720p.  Which is fine im currently using it on a 1080p Samsung 2333hd and looks better than you'd expect for upscaling.  The big problem is ironically on a 720p,  now because of reasons I fail to understand (despite trying) 720p TV's generally have a resolution of 1366 x 768, a signal of 1280x720 is going to appear out of focus. It's still unclear as to whether the 720p output is hardware limited or whether we can adjust it to better suit 720p tv's (madness). Conclusion is it works and it works well,  the number of features xbmc brin...