I'm afraid I know nothing about AppleTV or the hacking scene other than to play mkvs on an AppleTV you need to install Perian...

So my question is this: Is it a reasonable assumption that in about six months Perian will have hacked its way into AppleTV 2.0? Or should I just go ahead and buy one now and stuff it away somewhere?

I know there is absolutely no way to know for sure, but what I'm asking is if people that are more familiar with it than I can GUESS whether or not there's a reasonable chance.

Plus if all else fails, I'm sure you can downgrade the firmware... right? *looks at iPhone*