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Apple Announces New Apple TV With Siri, App Store, New User Interface and Remote
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Since siri on iPhone is relaxed about finding escorts, wonder how the siri show me porn'll work?!
there is an updated interface with new hardware. Baffling why you would want to use an App on the phone instead of a remote
Doesn't matter what Apple does for some, there are trolls here that obviously either work for other companies or will never be happy.
False, absolutely false. The majority of 4K tv's being produced are not "faux-k" You really need to check the specs on the tv's. 3840 x 2160 is twice as many pixels as 1920 x 1080. Yes. technically, 4K is 4096 x 2160, but the tv industry has agreed that 3840 x 2160 will be the industry standard for 4K. Secondly, 4K with HDR is amazing. Until you see it, you have no idea what you are missing. The fact that the ATV can not do 4K or HDR, is a failure. many shows are now being done with 4k cameras, even though the broadcasters are still stuck in 1080i and 720p world. That will allow those of us who stream, to actually see the shows in 4k when they reach Netflix. It will look a lot better than current HD. Fox has said from this point forward, all movies will be done in HDR. Apple missed the boat.
If and only iff you define "outdated" as not supporting a smattering of 4k content, then I guess you are right.
On a similar note, MacBooks have been obsolete for the past decade because they haven't supported BluRay, and all Ferraris sold today are obsolete because they run on ground-based hydrocarbons.
If you have a 4k TV and the draw of 4k content draws you to other boxes, that's how you'll make your decision. Presupposing an eventual mass market move to 4k sets, there are still a lot of folks a lot of years away from buying a 4k TV, and that is a vast majority of the set top box marketplace.
Doesn't seem like many noticed this but there's two new remotes for the new Apple TV. One with Siri integration for supported countries and one without, for the countries that don't support it.
"The Apple TV Remote comes in two flavors—one with Siri built in and the other with onscreen search capabilities. The Siri Remote is available in the following countries:
https://developer.apple.com/library..._PG/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40015241
"The Apple TV Remote comes in two flavors—one with Siri built in and the other with onscreen search capabilities. The Siri Remote is available in the following countries:
- Australia
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- Japan
- Spain
- United Kingdom
- United States
https://developer.apple.com/library..._PG/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40015241
"We look at the tablet and think it's going to fail..."
"7 inch tablets are dead on arrival.."
"If you see a stylus or task manager, they blew it..."
You don't need 4k, like you didn't need LTE, like you didn't need 1080p etc etc.
4k will come in a couple of years when everyone else is moving on.
"7 inch tablets are dead on arrival.."
"If you see a stylus or task manager, they blew it..."
You don't need 4k, like you didn't need LTE, like you didn't need 1080p etc etc.
4k will come in a couple of years when everyone else is moving on.
true,,,, I have a QNAP and run the iTunes server for my music, but still have a mac mini to handle the movies.
For all you people that love Roku and NVidia, why are you here? go to their forums, don't see the point in coming here
I have been thinking about an App with your local broadcast - considered an antenna input but even better would be an antenna with a signal that would interact with an app. and if the creator could have access to a TV listing service to populate the search...
Another nice one related would be a "TV Guide" app where you would set it up to give it all your "live" apps...including local broadcast...and it would create a guide for what is on now....
Well it's just one thing that wasn't needed. The new interface isn't much of a change, it needed to be a massive change. Just updating the internals and saying here we changed a few graphics isn't great at all. And for Tim to come out and say this is the future of tv.. ahh no. The concept is the future, the way Apple went about it with a clunky interface that's pretty much half-assed isn't! Not to mention the Apple Watch was originally said to be able to control Apple TV and use Siri so again why are they so big on adding a remote with those features? Is it for those who don't have an iphone/ipad/apple watch? Probably the only reason I can think of.
Just really wish they changed the interface, maybe next year with IOS X they'll change everything across the board, guess we shall see what happens. I'm holding off getting this apple tv as there's nothing about it that screams PURCHASE ME!
It's not possible... yet.
1. The iPhone 6S only got 4K this year. The guts of this AppleTV is similar to the 6.
2. It has one USB-C port. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the port is likely to plug in an external hard drive a-la game console/PVR. Otherwise there isn't enough storage to store a 4K video, and streaming one isn't possible yet because "broadband" is defined as 25Mbps as of Jan 2015, and the average ISP isn't offering 25Mbps as baseline. 4K requires 25Mbps (Netflix requires 25Mbps for UHD)
3. HDMI 1.4 can't do 4K @ 60fps, and Everyone who bought a UHD television before HDMI 2.0a has this, which only came out this year (HDMI 2.0 was 2013 but TV's have a slow production pipe.) 4K@60fps requires HDMI 2.0(a) or Displayport.
Source: http://www.avsforum.com/forum/168-hdmi-q-one-connector-world/1523994-hdmi-2-0-cedia-webinar.html
Even devices like the GoPro can't do 4Kp60
So a "30fps" experience on a TV is miserable when an iPhone or iPad app/game runs at the screen's native resolution and refresh rate (60fps.) It's a poor experience to switch between 4K UHD and 1080p, and we know the ARM parts aren't really capable of rendering software at 4K. Sure you "might" playback 4K video with the existing ARM parts using the dedicated decoder/encoder, but that does nothing for the rest of the software.
I have been thinking about an App with your local broadcast - considered an antenna input but even better would be an antenna with a signal that would interact with an app. and if the creator could have access to a TV listing service to populate the search...
Another nice one related would be a "TV Guide" app where you would set it up to give it all your "live" apps...including local broadcast...and it would create a guide for what is on now....
Are people really surprised about lack of 4K? I've yet to meet anyone with a 4K telly, there is still loads of content thats not even HD and the internet would grind to a halt if we all started streaming 4K. I'd be happy if there was a Synology app that i could easily stream all the DVD rips that I took years to do on my NAS.
Unless I missed it, there was zero mention of HomeKit and a tie in with the new Apple TV. I guess Apple has gone back to the drawing board with HomeKit?
true,,,, I have a QNAP and run the iTunes server for my music, but still have a mac mini to handle the movies.
why would someone wanna use their tv to play music is beyond me. plus with the roku you get a private channel like machtv and get all ppv events, HBO,DISCOVERY CH, A&E,ESPN,SKY SPORTS, ETC... and all NFL,NBA,NHL,MLB games in HD all for about 20.00a month. thanks but no thanks no apple tv for me
The were thinking the same thingI'm thinking: 4K is on the horizon but not yet in many people's homes. Heck, my cable company barely has HD. Right now I don't see any 4K content available on iTunes, or anywhere else. I'm sure it's out there but I don't see it anywhere. And to be honest it takes long enough to download an HD film. 4K? I don't have the bandwidth. Oh, 4K will take over someday, but by then I'll be on the next AppleTV box, or the one after that. For most of us 4K is where HD was in the late '90s, about a decade away.
