I agree, BUT they really need to get a foothold with these devices. Something so everyone wants one.
Preferably a cheaper price, but I'd think something like a $50 video credit or a year of Apple Music (6 months?) would help.
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I agree, BUT they really need to get a foothold with these devices. Something so everyone wants one.
Preferably a cheaper price, but I'd think something like a $50 video credit or a year of Apple Music (6 months?) would help.
Have to agree. First you gotta get past all those that don't have enough bandwidth. And those that do won't see much difference. You need a big screen tv to really see the difference. 75" or more.
Curious on why? I feel they are just playing catch up with it... I have one of the older ones and never use it
I really hope they do a gaming bundle with a controller. They put way too much hope in setting Apple TV up as a platform without considering the powers of defaults. iOS stumbled into becoming the largest gaming platform in the world on the strength of innovative inputs combined with market saturation. Apple TV have the strengths of building upon iOS, but does not have the saturation nor the expectations of gaming inputs to make it a viable platform. I hope they have learnt from this this time around.
Excessive in this day and age. I’m an AV snob and have spent a great deal on gear over the years and grew up with great systems and worked in music doing production and engineering. That said, I think people who think they’re getting performance improvements from things like this are fooling themselves, and I’ve yet to see anyone reliably tell any sort of difference in any A/B testing. Unless you have a receiver or processor doing video conversion and you can’t turn it off (in which case you should worry more about getting a better processor), splitting the signals like this is unnecessary. Many processors/receivers have this fornpeople with projectors in addition to more traditional flat screens in the same setup, but splitting up digital audio and video? No. Silly. It’s not like analog where the signal can degrade. It either gets there or it doesn’t.
If it's true that an Apple employee emailed 9to5Mac and MacRumors the links to the GM build as Daring Fireball suggests then this shouldn't be called a leak. A leak is unintentional. This would be a malicious act. I'm not quite sure how I feel about that.
Like Steve Jobs said...Its a wide screen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough internet communicator.
I would consider buying this if it's sensibly priced.
But I have no confidence it will be sensibly priced.
But I have no confidence it will be sensibly priced.
That'd be nice but Apple TVs are pretty cheap products. Adding real gaming support means adding a heavy-duty storage device, and that's going to drive up the cost significantly. And the controller would be pretty expensive as well.
I do mean as an option. Sure it won't be a default default. But it will at least be a sanctioned default, and that might bring it over the bar for many developers saturation-wise.
Right now, asking developers to target people who go out of their way to buy third party devices is just too much.
I am getting some flickering on the left had side of the screen. No other devices have this problem and I have tried changing cables, adjusting settings and anything else I can find. I even hard reset the device. Nothing...
I still think that Apple as they have always have in the past skimped on RAM.
For me, it'll be the perfect device because I have 600 iTunes movies and TV Shows, so with built in upscaling (which most 4K devices have) my 1080p content should look a LOT better. I find the ATV 4 buggy as hell, so I'm hoping this new model is more stable and with better ram and processing less buffering issues. That plus it'll have Vudu UHD Support (hopefully), Amazon 4K HDR, Hulu 4K HDR and Netflix HDR, plus Xfinity (for the most part fully supports ATV where it doesn't support AndroidTV) will make this a must have upgrade for me. Plus my entire media server of 3,000 ripped movies and tV Shows is sort of based on iTunes Homeshare (even though I've been using Plex more lately)
....and it STILL doesn't support DTS/MA-HD audio tracks! I'll never understand why Apple doesn't add this feature. I'll stick with my Nvidia Shield TV box.
Ah the first one to start the stupid "4K sucks" rants. Congrats. Why do you care? No one is forcing you to buy this. Apple isn't hanging you up by your ankles and shaking the money out of your pocket.
