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A8 Chip in iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Capable of Playing 4K Video

Why do iPhones of all things receive the latest and greatest parts, yet we have to wait extremely long for simple spec upgrades on Macs?
 
I'm always a skeptic..

If Apple knew 4K was for A8, don't u think they would have said ? It's not something they would just keep quiet about and slip it in un-noticed.

Plus, this being on Youtube doesn't help,, Its converted.
 
Are you guys serious?! You're surprised that a device of at least €799 can play UHD?! My OnePlus One, with the same screen specs AND 64GB also plays UHD. Without any tricks or special apps. It cost me €299, instead of €899. Again, seriously.
 
I feel with this finding there is going to be a good chance of the :apple:TV being released at the same time as the 5K monitor. Would be a pretty sweet combo.
 
Next year's TV will have this year's iPhone chip. It only makes sense that they'd engineer it for 4K support.
 
proline said:
Wrong. The 2015 Apple TV will in fact have an A8 chip. It's Apple's only mobile chip that can decode H.265, which will be essential for decoding video better than 1080. Apple cannot wait until 2016 to improve the Apple TV, and they simply aren't going to make an entire new chip for it. It will be an A8, possibly single core variant.

Amazing how the power of reason can reveal things to you.
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It's also real easy to hit a target in the dark so long as you never turn the lights on.

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wesk702 said:
I feel with this finding there is going to be a good chance of the :apple:TV being released at the same time as the 5K monitor. Would be a pretty sweet combo.
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A 5k monitor has nothing to do with this chip and everything to do with the new HDMI, display port and thunderbolt 3 specs which won't be released for a while.

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AlecZ said:
Why do iPhones of all things receive the latest and greatest parts, yet we have to wait extremely long for simple spec upgrades on Macs?
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Because Apple controls the engineering and release of their ARM processors and they don't control the release of Intel's chips.

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mozumder said:
It won't be for this generation of chips.

If they haven't announced the AppleTV by now, then they missed the holiday season, and that means they're going to wait for next year, by which time the A9X or whatever will be out.
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You mean like the Apple Watch holiday date they also missed? There's no need to release Apple TV during holidays. 4k displays are the thing you have to convince consumers to buy, not $100 Apple TV. Not many people get $2000 TVs for Xmas.
 
Tankmaze said:
4K video ? wait until apple provide iPhone with 64gb as the entry level.
with 16 gb space, it is pretty much useless.
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You mean 4K video on a 64/128 GB iPhone is useless while Apple still offers 16GB entry phones? Or you mean that everyone MUST use 4K video, so Apple must offer 64GB entry phones?

Not much logic there in your statement.
 
wigby said:
It's also real easy to hit a target in the dark so long as you never turn the lights on.



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You mean like the Apple Watch holiday date they also missed? There's no need to release Apple TV during holidays. 4k displays are the thing you have to convince consumers to buy, not $100 Apple TV. Not many people get $2000 TVs for Xmas.
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Like the same people will pay $500 for an Apple watch??
 
cdmoore74 said:
With Apple still rocking 16gb phones it would be disastrous to have 4k video enabled.
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Another logic-free post. How is it disastrous on a 64/128 GB iPhone to have 4K enabled with "Apple still rocking 16gb phones"? What impact does it have on users with higher-capacity phones what capacity the entry phone has? Perhaps there are people who don't need 4K video on their phones, so they are happy with 16GB. No? Impossible? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 
MentalFloss said:
You mean 4K video on a 64/128 GB iPhone is useless while Apple still offers 16GB entry phones? Or you mean that everyone MUST use 4K video, so Apple must offer 64GB entry phones?

Not much logic there in your statement.
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4k capable video on a 16gb iphone is useless. 10 minutes video would "cost" you 3,5GB. Assume you don't install apps and no pictures on your phone with 12 gb free space on the 16 gb iphone, you would only get 30-40 minutes video... See where i'm getting at? Useless.
 
Tankmaze said:
4k capable video on a 16gb iphone is useless. 10 minutes video would "cost" you 3,5GB. Assume you don't install apps and no pictures on your phone with 12 gb free space on the 16 gb iphone, you would only get 30-40 minutes video... See where i'm getting at? Useless.
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So? Just because one can't store 4k video on a 16 gb iPhone means such a feature is worthless on a larger capacity device?

I see where you are getting at. I just don't think it's very relevant.
 
Tankmaze said:
4k capable video on a 16gb iphone is useless. 10 minutes video would "cost" you 3,5GB. Assume you don't install apps and no pictures on your phone with 12 gb free space on the 16 gb iphone, you would only get 30-40 minutes video... See where i'm getting at? Useless.
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No, I don't see what you're getting at. Yes, 4K video on a 16GB phone is useless. But that does not imply that a 16GB phone is useless, and it does not imply that 4K is useless while Apple is selling a 16GB iPhone.

It may surprise you, but even if the iPhone 6/6S is capable of playing 4K video, there will still be people who don't care about playing 4K video on a 1920x1080 screen. And if they have been happy with a 16GB phone so far, they will still be happy with it in the future.

This is just another opportunity for people to whine about how terrible it is that Apple is still selling a 16GB entry iPhone.
 
I have no desire for 4k on a phone, to be fair I have no care for a 4k tv in my home either, it's just not necessary even more so as there are little to no 4k services available in the mainstream yet, heck even in the UK on subscription services (ie Sky and Virgin) there are many many channels with SD only services, and when I've been working in the U.S. the quality is even worse

Do I like the idea it has the capability, sure, but not something I would use
 
Tankmaze said:
4k capable video on a 16gb iphone is useless. 10 minutes video would "cost" you 3,5GB. Assume you don't install apps and no pictures on your phone with 12 gb free space on the 16 gb iphone, you would only get 30-40 minutes video... See where i'm getting at? Useless.
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CURRENT video is "useless" on 16gb phones @ 1gb per 8 minutes.
So are large apps...
So are large games...
Yet these "useless" phones continue to sell!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guess not everybody uses their phone like you do. A huge number of people do light photography, Facebook, etc...
See what everybody else is getting at?
 
It will be exciting news when the iPhone can record 4k and have capability to store it with removable memory. The new droid turbo from Motorola can record in 4k

I'd also like to see option to record in 720p or standard def if I want. 1080p file sizes are ridiculous and even more so when turning on 60 fps.
 
mi7chy said:
4K at what bitrate? Note 3 can decode 4K at 275Mbps rate from internal storage or 120Mbps over 5GHz 802.11ac and supports MKV format with several players like MX Player app without the need to convert to iTunes compatible format that takes time and disk space.
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At 50Mbps. lol.
Apple is playing catch-up. Again!
 
ChrisA said:
Is it REALLY playing a 4K video if it is showing it on a 1K screen? I think it is reading a 4K video files, thrashing 3/4 of the data and displaying the remaining 1K video stream.

It is like when you buy a 24MP camera and are all happy that you have this high resolution image. But then you phone has a 2MP screen. What happens to the extra pixels? Well they are down sampled and not displayed.
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I think you missed the point of the article
 
ChrisA said:
Is it REALLY playing a 4K video if it is showing it on a 1K screen? I think it is reading a 4K video files, thrashing 3/4 of the data and displaying the remaining 1K video stream.

It is like when you buy a 24MP camera and are all happy that you have this high resolution image. But then you phone has a 2MP screen. What happens to the extra pixels? Well they are down sampled and not displayed.
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You do realise that 1080p is (pretty much) 2k.... 4k refers to the horizontal pixels...
 
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