Again, it depends on the file size of that particular movie. I personally encoded 1000 movies and the difference can vary wildly. A movie in h.265 may only be 1/4 smaller. Most are 1/3. Very rarely do I get one that is half the size.
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Apple Announces 'Apple TV 4K' With 4K and HDR Video Powered by Faster A10X Chip
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True CD quality is not SACD quality. I guess you are using the "CD" layer of the Hybrid SACD, not the SACD layer...big difference. It's just CD quality 16 bit/44.1 kHz. You can rip your Hybrid SACD CD layer in Apple Lossless using iTunes and stream CD quality to any Apple TV from many generations ago.
See I bought the last ATV4 with the belief that because Siri works for my iPhone and iPad that Siri will soon work for the ATV4 in New Zealand. Siri now works on my Macs but still no Siri for the ATV4 in New Zealand.
So, what I have found is that a Kodi box from China does work with Siri just as well as the ATV4, and it does all the other things we want/need.
So for 1/5th the price I have now got streaming TV in the other rooms of my home, without the need for Apple.
When it comes to replacing my iPhone SE it will probably be with an Android phone, at least we have Android pay here in NZ with my Bank and everything else work "good enough" that the swap will be fairly painless.
And because my Mac Mini's have fallen off the upgrade treadmill I am looking at throwing Ubuntu onto one of them to have a play.
Apple gear is nice, I like it, and OS X/IOS but the real differences between Apple and other options for me is dwindling to the point where the premium price is simply no longer worth it.
I don't think it is just a typo. Pictures of the atv 4k also don't show a usb-c port. That doesn't mean it isn't there though. Maybe it is hidden somewhere else. I doubt it though.
The current atv 4 tech specs website https://www.apple.com/apple-tv/specs/ lists the ports and interfaces as:
HDMI 1.43
802.11ac Wi‑Fi with MIMO
10/100BASE-T Ethernet
Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology
IR receiver
USB‑C for service and support
Built‑in power supply
That "USB‑C for service and support" is gone for the atv 4k tech specs website https://www.apple.com/apple-tv-4k/specs/
So how exactly is "service and support" going to happen on the atv 4k?
Via ethernet or hdmi? I doubt that.
Dying to see the ifixit teardown to see if there is some internal port for serviceability. That would be a real pain for developers though.
I agree about the remote. It's too slim and small, has a slippery backside and no mute button. Also I hope Apple fixed the UI in how one "types" stuff in. Having the A-Z alphabet in one long row and not be able to scroll continuously in one direction or the other is really stupid. Take forever to enter information and search for stuff.
Nvidia Shield TV and SBCs like Odroids and Raspberry Pi's do that. It's nothing new.
I play the SACDs in my universal player for multichannel.
My Qobuz streaming subscrption is 44.1kHz lossless FLAC. There's a hi res one now, but I think it has almost no multichannel content, and my receiver only goes to 48kHz (and it is only 2.4GHz wireless).
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Or you can all watch that same movie in the same rom at the same time. You know as a family?
interesting concept in today's world it seems.
Even if the Shield does more, if I don't use, or need a USB 3 port, or need it to play anything I throw at it, and I'm giving up AirPlay, something I use personally and professionally every day, why on Earth would I buy the Shield instead?
My TV has USB ports if I want to display something from a Flash drive, and it will be easier to access than the streaming box strapped to the back of my wall mounted TV. Plus, my TV has ChromeCast, and from what I understand that will also play anything I throw at it. Both things I rarely do anyway.
So no, this seems like just what the Dr. ordered to go with my 4K TV, particularly since it's powered by Android TV which is absolutely horrible. I can't wait to stop using my TVs "smart" features, and offload them to a more reliable box.
That said, I'm wondering if Apple is going to support 4K AirPlay streaming over iOS and Mac OS 11, or is capable of it should Apple support it under OS 12.
Double or triple. Thats why I'm whining. I would love to buy an Apple TV in 4K, but the all powerful internet providers have the final say. I am not going to pay 30 to 40 dollars a month more to stream 4K.
Thats why they use HEVC(h265) for the 4K files ..
here is a comparison between H264 and H265(HEVC)
HobeSoundDarryl
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You're wasting your keystrokes. What Apple doesn't have for sale now is a stupid, useless gimmick "that no one needs"- see 4K on
TV before today. There are a ton of threads on here that ridicules 4K in an TV as late as this week. Of course, now that God, er I mean Apple has formally embraced it in this model, where oh where have all those people gone?Wait! There they are, now ridiculing desirable features like modern audio codecs Apple left out of this version... and probably filing away the anti-4K rationale for when competitors and TVs have pretty much gone 8K a few years from now.
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Dont stream them , Download them ... you can buy the Nvidia Shield if you want to watch 4K movies with HDR .. it is more open than Apple TV.
Besides HEVC file size are half to 1/3 the H264 size .. so you will not need more Data I think
HobeSoundDarryl
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What's the point of buying iPhones with cellular band hardware inside NOT compatible with your service provider? What's the point in paying up for advanced hardware in iDevices or Macs but then never really making much use of such features?
In fact, why did Apple roll out new iPhones today when every single app in the App Store runs just fine on the iPhone we already have? And why roll out a new Watch when the iPhone we already have can cover its featuresand every single Watch app available already runs just fine on the Watches already out there. Seems to me, Apple should just stop creating anything new because "what's the point" of building new hardware or features when the existing stuff seems to do the job just fine as is.
In tech, more horsepower is generally desirable for purposes beyond any one new thing. Do you like games? Better hardware will drive better games. Better video hardware will play 1080p or less at its maximum. This hardware might allow you to convert any of your own video to HEVC, saving great space without sacrificing quality.
Future proofing? When your 1080p set conks, there may no longer be 1080p sets to replace it.
Etc.
None of that and more matter to you? This model now existing makes the "4" cheaper to buy so you can save yourself money and get exactly what you want now.
There's no losers here... just more options for those that DO care about jumping on hardware advances.
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I have both Nvidia Shield 500GB and AVT 4. I use Shield as Plex server to transcode local content stored in NAS. I use ATV4 for all of TV watching: Netflix and local streaming.
Shield is powerful but its interface and remote are so 90's. Browsing through contents in Netflix and Plex is painful, old fashion one click at a time. FF and Rew are also painful, same old fashion remote.
Kodi is also so 90's. its interface is not so modern and consistent with TVos. Nothing works right in Kodi, like Android.
I have a $350 universal remote URC 880 (which I thou and rarely use it since I use Siri remote most of the time. Siri remote is light weight and simple. its touch pad is so much better with browsing large contents than old fashion remotes, by a long shot.
$120? No thanks.
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If i ever want to type more than two words, I use the remote app. Gives me a normal keyboard.
This has always been an option in iTunes. Now they may have removed it for future updates - because it's stupid Apple. But it's always been an option in the past.
... in which case, why the **** are you complaining about the price of a good you have no intention of ever buying at any price?
