How excited would you be to know that your beautiful Apple TV can now (via a handy little bit of haxxing) can now be used to display all of those, erm, alternatively-formatted video files on your big ole’ HD TV? Ok, we all knew it wouldn’t take long, but the moment has come.

A friendly soul has taken the time to outline the specific actions required to make your xvid, divx, and wmv files play on your Apple TV, right here.

Take a peek at it, try it out, and let us know how it worked out for you. Our budget here at Apple Blorge doesn’t quite cover our very own Apple TV yet, so, ah…we’d love to know how much fun all of you are having!

Update 1: check out this other site if you’re really interested in “modifying” your Apple TV: Apple TV Hacks