So the Apple TV hit the street last week. I wasn’t aware of it until a friend just IM’d me informing me that he kept up his long-standing tradition of early adoption, putting one of these shiny new units next to his Nintendo Wii and Sony PlayStation 3.

Here’s the killer feature he relayed to me:

You’d like apple tv. There’s a built-in movie trailer streaming function.

To think: If Apple had released this unit 7 years ago, I might never have started down the path of multimedia hacking.