Apple first released the Apple TV set-top box in 2006. Here’s how to refurbish and restore one of the original units, to make the set-top box as good as new.
Apple TV 1st generation.
All through the 1990s, Apple had been toying with the idea of making a set-top TV box for home users. Like a cable TV box, Apple wanted to have a TV platform that was compact, inexpensive, and easy to use.
Apple’s first stab at a TV device was in the early 1990s when it started a project called Apple Interactive Television Box. It was loosely based on a Mac of the time called the Quadra 605.