I don’t think the AppleTV classic tried to appeal to all users at all. It’s pretty much the same as the current one except it lacks Netflix and the new UI. I consider the new AppleTV a little more than a simple hardware refresh that allows the price to drop and the video capability to improve slightly. I’m not sure the old one could handle HD Netflix. The graphics card in the old AppleTV was only an underclocked 7300 and it lacked full h.264 decoding while the CPU only ran at 1ghz.
