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Apple Announces New Apple TV With Siri, App Store, New User Interface and Remote
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No, they can't because the new Apple TV is only HDMI 1.4. For 4k, you need HDMI 2.0.
Basically apple have been two years behind the competition and have only just caught up. Only there are better devices already on the market ( Nvidia shield) , similar devices in the nexus player, Amazon etc
And I'm willing to bet the completion will start releasing 4k Support far quicker than apple.
And I'm willing to bet the completion will start releasing 4k Support far quicker than apple.
The specs are at apple.com "TV" is now a top menu item. Go to "Compare Apple TVs" Specs listed there.
That is an incredibly practical feature and is almost enough to make me upgrade. I've had that happen a lot when watching cable and forgetting you can't rewind. -__-
I'm disappointed about this too. I have 2 apple TVs one in living room hDMI'd to TV and optically connected to stereo and one connected via AV amp to a projector by HDMI and optical. In the living room you can airplay music to stereo without telly on and my AV amp only supports video over HDMI.
143% bigger then. So why is it BIGGER? when the iPhone 6 is THINNER?
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I wish there were some easy way to watch "live" tv for channels such as NBC/CBS/ABC/FOX. They might be able to come out with individual apps to do this, but I wish there was the option to watch TV in the more "traditional" sense flipping through live channels.
To everyone complaining about 4k. 1) Do you have a 4k TV? 2) What 4k content do you currently watch?
To everyone complaining about 4k. 1) Do you have a 4k TV? 2) What 4k content do you currently watch?
Wondering how much memory you'll really need if you just want to use it mostly as a TV and not a gaming machine. 32GB seems like a lot when you stream pretty much everything these days, music, photos, iTunes, Netflix, etc. Maybe the 64GB is for loading all those 3D games on to it.
According to that, you can watch your "home movies". So I'm worried that they're cutting us off from our movies and tv shows on our machines. That's what I mainly use Apple TV for.
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I am thinking a third party app that you will use to play your ripped movies (or all movies) from your NAS or Mac will use the meta dat you plugged from IMDB as teh search table. Someone posted a link to a company already working on a ATV movie streaming type app.
Think about it...the App store really opens this thing up.
Yes i saw that too, I would assume that is what it is. It does make sense to have a compute Icon instead of a stupid house
Insanely huge disappointment for me, really wanted to get an updated interface with new hardware. All we really got was some updated hardware with a minor facelift to the interface. I don't care about the remote or siri, there's an app on the phone that can do all that stuff anyway and control Apple TV. Play games? Nah that's why I have a console like xbox to play on. Most app based games are still years away from prime time competition with xbox/playstation.
I guess I'm the only one here without a 4K TV and mountains of 4K content to watch?
4K TVs will only drop in price and the content (which appears to be sparse at the moment) will only increase in time. Plus, we have Apple's new streaming platform to look forward to; they're not nearly finished with the Apple TV. An entire app store and developer support isn't a "minor update." Every other device with an app store is updated on a regular basis, so don't think you have to wait 3 years for the next Apple TV. This isn't Apple's hobby project anymore, so expect to see a refresh more often.
4K TVs will only drop in price and the content (which appears to be sparse at the moment) will only increase in time. Plus, we have Apple's new streaming platform to look forward to; they're not nearly finished with the Apple TV. An entire app store and developer support isn't a "minor update." Every other device with an app store is updated on a regular basis, so don't think you have to wait 3 years for the next Apple TV. This isn't Apple's hobby project anymore, so expect to see a refresh more often.
I'm pretty sure it was ONLY Sony who said they could update their 1.4 to 2.0 by internet download. And that was like 2 years ago now... They already replaced their entire line with 2.0. I don't even know if they actually did provide that update, they just mentioned they probably could.
It's also super un-Apple like to do something like that. No 4K on iPhone 6, only new 6 S's. Just remember that.
I like the new AppleTV and will buy one as soon as available. Once I have played with it will probably upgrade the second one as well. The controller was the only thing that I am not 100% convinced on. I see that they will allow other controllers so I am sure some third party one may end being a better option. one thing I would love is the audio out jack like in the roku controllers. Would love to watch a movie while my wife sleeps or the other way around.
Well Firecore's Infuse has been officially confirmed and so has Plex so i think it's a given that Kodi will follow.
Happy days
