Advantages of ATV First Gen vs Second Gen?

I have received both a first and second generation Apple TV. I am wondering if there are any advantages to keeping the first generation and the second generation; if it is even possible to hook both up at the same time. Does the first gen offer any advantages to the second?

I have both, they each have their advantages but overall I prefer the Apple TV.
It has it's own hard drive, so there is no need to keep a computer running, it has much better organisation of your own content and your own content is more intuitively incorporated into its interface, and you can purchase content from the Apple TV itself.
The second generation has new features such as Airplay, it's much smaller and more energy efficient.
We tend to use the older model where we watch more in a family orientated setting, ie where we watch movies together etc. The second generation model is located in places like the kitchen where we don't end to watch a lot of movies but use it for viewing photos and video taken on the phone and short videos in our iTunes libraries and you Tube etc.

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