You know - the thing that bothers me about what is being said (by Apple) about the current state of TV, the UI, etc is hypocritical. Sure Apple hasn't been in the market as long... but they've had plenty of time to fix their UI over the past few years and have done little in that realm. I greatly look forward to seeing how they overhaul the UI for Apple TV. The whole sawdust in the eye thing.
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But this year it makes more sense imo. IOS 9 will focus on stabilization and performance. New features will mainly be AppleWatch native apps and AppleTV. Well, at least these are my wishes.
Yeah. This reminds me of the apps for web sites. When that first began, I thought it was great. But as we got more, it began to be a pain. A browser is so much easier to move from one site to the other with.
It's easier to move to the proper channel with a controller than to look through the channels with Apple's remote. Click to move right or left, pop, pop, pop, then click to move up or down, pop, pop, pop.
It's a real pain. Moving to more channels with a controller using numbers is much easier as we get more of them. I don't know how Apple intends to resolve this, but if they're going to have a lot of channels eventually, it will get even more unwieldy than it is now.
Most people are looking for a specific show, one they watch every week. It's not like going into a bookstore and browsing the shelves until you find something you like.
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Yes 4k is exactly what I'm looking for to properly fuel my 65' UHD TV. So far I was holding off to buy an Apple TV as it supports only HDTV.
I hope the new Apple TV will support 4K movies.
The new Apple TV will probably return to the $99 price point. The recently announced $69 price point is probably to clear out the inventory of the current product.
This...
There's an app called FanTV (previously Fanhattan I think) that allows you to search a specific show or movie and it tells you what platforms it's on. Saves me having to go and search for it through multiple services.
There's an app called FanTV (previously Fanhattan I think) that allows you to search a specific show or movie and it tells you what platforms it's on. Saves me having to go and search for it through multiple services.
With Metal, if Apple put an A8X in the next Apple TV and aren't stingy with flash memory, we'd have a console very competitive with the Xbox 360 on a technical level.
You should know the answer to that....of course not.
It'll support iTunes and AirPlay and that's about it. It'll only support other Apple products.
Remote Audio
Apple, if you are reading this please incorporate remote audio for those of us with young children (or other reasons to want to not use speakers).
Apple, if you are reading this please incorporate remote audio for those of us with young children (or other reasons to want to not use speakers).
And/or will it appease sports fans with the built in siri integration so you can yell at the tv and it will yell back (finally)
How did you sell it for $250? Is there some reason why people want the second generation over the third generation?
I have a second gen model that I bought when it first came out. What am I missing here?
I believe the ability to jailbreak? I don't have the AT3 and haven't kept up on "hacking" it
I'm skeptical when it comes to the new TV and new subscription music service. Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac said on MacBreak Weekly that he didn't expect a major UI overhaul for TV. He also claims no major iTunes overhaul; that the new subscription service will basically just be bolted on to the existing iTunes along side iTunes Radio. Plus he says a lot of engineers on the music project have left Apple because they weren't happy, especially engineers working on the Android version of the service.
Hit out of the park
I agree that if Apple really wants to grab the TV business by the tail & make a few more gazillion dollars they will price the new unit at $99.
Heck, with all the "add ons" they will more than make up the R & D expenses plus a little more for a few lattes.
I agree that if Apple really wants to grab the TV business by the tail & make a few more gazillion dollars they will price the new unit at $99.
Heck, with all the "add ons" they will more than make up the R & D expenses plus a little more for a few lattes.
No kidding- the hackable
tv That's why I haven't upgraded to
tv 3.