Watch Network TV Episodes on Apple TV

CNET the Apple Byte Brian Tong: What's up, I am Brian Tong and welcome to the Apple Byte. Apple announce their quarterly earnings this week, so let's start there. Apple has ragged up to $ 1.14 billion of profit for the fiscal Q4 as Steve Jobs called it one of their best in Apple's history. The big has sold more Macs compared to any quarter in its history and it's sold more iPhones in Q4 then all the previous quarters combined. Are the guys have think different immune to the rough economic times, we'll keep tabs this one for you. Apple has blessed through its goal of selling 10 million iPhones for 2008. 6.9 million of them were sold in fiscal Q4, and its helped Apple to snag about 17% of the U.S. smartphone market and it's the second best cell in U.S. mobile hand set according to NPD. So what phone still holds the top spot as the best seller? The Motorola Razr V3, the razr I will tell you how the iPhone gets at top spot free iPhone with a contract baby, listen to me Steve though I will make you millions more. Now, want to get a free streaming video of network TV episodes like Friends and the office on your Apple TV, Tom Merritt shows you how in this insider secret. Hack Apple TV Tom Merritt: Boxee is the service based on XBMC that is currently in private alpha. You can get some free invites actually they were nice enough to setup one just for you at boxee.tv/cnet. Then you will have to download and set that service up separately. Let's get started on them on, make sure you have your Apple TV turned off, then make sure you have a USB stick with at least 1GB of space. Download atvusb-creator from Google code. Insert a bootable USB drive into your Mac, run the atvusb-creator, select ATV patchstick and make sure the XBMC and Boxee plug-ins are selected. Now make sure your USB drive is selected and press create using. Again, make sure your Apple TV is off remove the USB drive and plug it into your Apple TV. Power on your Apple TV and the patchstick will run the ATV boot loader. After the boot loader finishes, remove it and restart your Apple TV. It now has options for Boxee, XBMC right there on their main menu. Click on Boxee then select update boot launcher this is going to help prevent some problems with the remote. Then select XBMC Boxee then update and then Boxee, this will download Boxee from the net. Once it's done installing restart your Apple TV then do the same thing for XBMC, you will probably want to explore the facts at XBMC and the blog at Boxee to make the most of your new capabilities, that's it for this insider secret I am Tom Merritt cnet.com. Brian Tong: All right, thanks Tom, Boxee also just added support for Hulu, CBS and Comedy Central content, so it's good to see someone is doing something with the Apple TV right now even if is just a hobby for Apple. The iPhone 3G has been out for a while and Apple is all about the looks so we wanted to examine who is the hot one between the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G in I of the Beholder. Which phone looks classier the original iPhone has a brush metal surface that's classy, classy, and which phone is more versatile. Will the iPhone 3G gives you color choices with black or white and finally which phone can you hold upside down where you're more likely to get away with it. Charlie knows it's not the OG iPhone seen screwed that one up big time and the bloggers let him know and probably number 17 in the Bionic Woman you are guilty too. Male Speaker: Really. Female Speaker: Really. Brian Tong: What if that was the iPhone 3G at least it wouldn't have been that bad. The applebyte's verdict iPhone 3G, now we want to hear from you so email us at theapplebyte@cnet.com. Thanks for watching and come back next time for another bite of the apple. CNET the Apple Byte