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Apple Begins Accepting Online Orders for New Apple TV
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You could use an Apple Store card to buy an iTunes card, but not the other way around.
Chances are the overnight will reach you first. Did you really need the TV that quickly that it was worth paying $17 extra? Could've rented 2-3 good movies or bought some apps for it with that money.
I was all set to order one this morning, and then during the process, just backed out. It looks great, but I think I'm going to wait to see what is available in the App Store before making the purchase. I want to see what this thing can do that justifies getting rid of my current Apple TV.
You'd be better off buying a more modern tv with more than 2 hdmi inputs... Switching the wire back and forth will get old FAST.
Touche, as I have about 5 laying around myself. Just struck me as odd I guess. Lightning cable being included will be very useful nonetheless.
It is a bit pain in the assy but fact is most HDMI devices do not come with the cable. Sure, they could price the product $5 more and pack in a $2 cable so the product true plug n' play out of the box but my guess is big box retailers lean on manufacturers to not include the cable. This way the retail has a venue to make more profit on the sale since most electronics are low margin.
That's not to say Apple isn't making good margins here, just that electronics in general are low profit propositions which is why retailers lean so hard on extras like cables and extended warranties.
Oh for sure I would be better off that way but I'm not in the market for a new tv at this time so swapping them out will have to work for now lol
Thanks for the input though.
Yeah, or "My buddy at Apple" or "My friend at Fedex is getting mine to me a day early"
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Is every producer of products in the US expected to adjust their prices to account for your country's currency fluctuations? Pretty weird logic, IMO.
One huge difference; 4K doesn't really provide that much of an improved image quality unless you have a really large TV and sit rather close. Things like more fluid image by going Plasma or OLED makes a much larger difference compared to 1080P vs 4K. And the current content is really lacklustre, 4K through Netflix is using such a low bitrate that it barley looks anything better than 1080P to begin with.
In order to achieve good 1080P quality you need at least 8-15 mbps depending on the content, with 4K unless you utilise H.265 aka HVEC you need four times the bandwidth in order to achieve the same amount of data per pixel. That's 32 to 60 mbps and Netflix is currently limiting 4K bandwidth to around 10 mbps which isn't remotely close to be enough in order to achieve a good amount of detail per pixel.
It would make the box bigger and you know how Apple feels about small boxes.
Agree with most of what you said, but HDR makes a massive difference in PQ. Granted, there is not a lot of HDR content or even HDR 4K sets
I use an automatic switch box on one of our TV's, with my sons Xbox and an
TV. Works fine.Strikes me as odd as well. I have more lightning cables laying around then I do HDMI cables so they could have used the same reasoning and not included a lightning cable. It's inconsiderate IMO since the thing really is useless out of the box. Very un-Apple but they've been doing that with the Apple TVs so I'm not surprised this generation. Same thing happened to me when I bought PS3 controller and there was no micro-USB cable provided. I actually don't have Micro-USB devices in my household so I didn't have a cable to charge the controller and be able to use it. Nintendo is doing the same thing with their 3DS and not including an AC adapter. I really wonder how much these cost-cutting tactics save the companies.
There are switches that switch automatically when they get an input signal - nothing to do and works like magic. Might not work for the apple tv since that one has no true on/off - but if you put your other two devices (e.g. cable and game station) on it, you should be fine. I had one for years before I upgraded my TV and I rarely had to touch the buttons to switch by hand.
Or alternatively (what I used on my other older TV): most programmable remotes can also control HDMI switches - so you go once through the pain of setting up the remote and than you can store all the remotes in a safe place, use only one programmable one, and have (almost) unlimited HDMI ports at your disposal.
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Thanks for the level headed response Marvin. I watch a 65" 4K from about 12' - and tend to think I can see the difference between non and 4K content. But that said, I'm pretty darn happy watching 1080p on this screen too.
I'm probably just more annoyed at Apple for the same reason as I'm annoyed about soldering ram, or a 5400 rpm drive in premium priced equipment. I want Apple be to better, and not settle for what they can get away with...
A favorite story of mine regarding Apple is that S. Jobs spent oodles of time and money getting the backlighting under the apple logo (on laptop covers) just right. Would they do that same thing today - doesn't look like it.
It's also probably 'what cable to include'. Five feet? What if TV is on wall? Nine feet? Then Apple has to have cables in stores for replacements. No, thanks, I bet was the response to all that.
I don't think many video items have HDMI cables except DirecTV DVRs which are (sometimes) supposed to be installed by an 'installer'. And I have several cables ready to go, too. Last time I ordered something from Monoprice, I threw in several just for an occasion like this.
did i NEED it that badly - no - did i want it that badly - yes
I bet they both show up Friday in which case I'll return the one with the expedited shipping.