Evolving Apple TV?

Apple TV could evolve into a gizmo making our TVs talk to the Internet in a creative way. The original Apple TV, released in the spring of 2007, excelled at just one thing: displaying on a big-screen TV the movies and video that you downloaded from the Net. A year later, Apple (AAPL) released a new, free version of Apple TV software that lets users rent movies. It lets users watch programming purchased from iTunes or downloaded off Google's (GOOG) YouTube, but Apple TV remains a work in progress. If you manage to install a piece of open-source software called Boxee, it gives you access to pretty much any kind of video available on the Internet.