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Apple Begins Accepting Online Orders for New Apple TV
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He said he's "cheap," so my guess is that he's close to the state line. If he has it shipped, Apple would charge the state tax rate applicable to where it is being shipped. Parts of New Hampshire fall within the Boston metro area.
Ah, that does make sense because I couldn't figure out what would be the difference in him ordering online. Got it.
no reason too most of us probably have extra HDMI cablesPretty absurd they couldn't at least include an HDMI cable so it's ready to go out of the box.
Ordered my two 64GB Apple TVs to replace my two 2nd Gen Apple TVs. I guess ebay will be littered with them now, eh?
I think your advice is spot-on. Additionally, on Apple's website when you click on "How much storage do I need?", Apple also suggests that 32 GB will be just fine for most people that do light gaming.
VuDu has new releases in 4K, as does Netflix. And 4K Blu-ray is on the way. The same, not so visionary, remarks were made about 1080P when it came out - "not much content" etc. (are you still watching a 720P display on your primary viewing screen?). And I remember the exact same arguments defending Gen 1 & 2 Apple TVs - do you recall they were 720P max? The hardware has to be in the market before the providers start putting a lot of content out to the consumer. But if you don't see the explosion of 4K - from BestBuy to Costco or Sams club - you simply have your head in the sand. At screen sizes of 50 inches and larger, 31 percent of TV shipments were 4K, and 4K LCD TV shipments grew nearly 400 percent Y/Y. (As of 1stQ 2015) Finally, The term "state of the art" refers to the highest level of general development. In consumer display technology that is currently available, in regards to resolution, that would be 4K. And the highest output resolution commercially available to the consumer in streaming is 4K, i.e., "The state of the art". Therefore, as a simple matter of fact, Apple's newest TV streaming device does not provide the "state of the art". If you don't require or desire that level of performance, then that is excellent and part of consumer choice. But that does not change the fact you can buy the Android MXIII, RoKu 4, NVIDIA® SHIELD, or Amazon Fire TV all with 4K streaming. Sorry Apple TV, but you are definitely not at the current "state of the art", which in consumer display resolution, is 4K.Exactly
Ordered one for my son to cover all upcoming holidays from Hanumas to birthday. When I visit him in the spring I'll get to see how it works and what he's using it for. I went ahead and got him the 64GB model.
The way I see it, I have had the highest capacity version of everything I've ever bought from Apple and have always had some form of storage issue. Getting anything less just to save $50 would probably end up causing a headache down the road, and that's not worth saving a few bucks over the course of the years that I'll own this.
Are you serious??
Just talked to my buddy Tim Cook. He said that if you can get the Apple shareholders to go along with your plan and if you give some of your income to those less fortunate, then Apple will swallow some of that currency fluctuation.
"Waiting" "crowds". Really?
I doubt that this will be anything near any of that.
I would say the $20.00 is well worth going in and purchasing (if it truly is a savings of 20.00). Plus the shipping costs?
Yeah, that's a no brainer.
Pretty absurd they couldn't at least include an HDMI cable so it's ready to go out of the box.
Tim Cook is CEO, every penny will be saved to improve profit margins
Not for people like me. It would cost me an hour of pay and a $15 Uber ride to get to and from the Apple Store from work, or drive two hours round trip and pay the gasoline on the weekend to save $10-20? Potential cost being somewhere around $20-100? Yeah... Pass.
I actually paid the extra shipping to get it sooner. Cheaper.
I'm betting wholeheartedly that Apple will make certain there will be plenty of stock available. I doubt those Ebayers will get much business.
I have one in my bedroom from monoprice, it has 3HDMI inputs on the back with one on the front. It also has optical, digital coaxial, and stereo out on the back. http://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=101&cp_id=10110&cs_id=1011002&p_id=5557&seq=1&format=2
I have owned every Apple TV ever made + 4 ATV3. Never had need. Not going to start now (Plus I will be using to watch movies only I hate games)
I can easily tell you've never been to an Apple store, because they're always crowded on the norm. I wasn't referring to "crowds" or "waiting" in terms of the TV. I was referring the store always being very busy and crowded with customers. Not always easy to get help there.
What shipping costs? Every piece of Apple hardware I've purchased online was shipped for free.
No, I sincerely don't like the direction they went with it. I don't like the new design or features. Superfluous, is the term to me. It is not just a passing thing. I don't like the design or features of the new one. Who on earth really plans to play games on this thing?
Sorry, I know I'm being pedantic, but you are using dpi wrong. I think you mean 720p and 1080p. Those are descriptors of the number of lines of pixels on a progressive scan display. Dpi is dots per inch (interchangeable with ppi, or pixels per inch, on a digital display) and is arch lower figure on TVS (because you are sitting for back, so you don't need it to be high.)
A 37" TV (roughly the average TV size) has a ppi of 40 at 720p or 60 at 1080p. On a 4K screen the ppi only goes up to 125. The original iPhone had a ppi of 163, for comparison (back in the pre-retina days)