I agree. It’s 40cm from couch to floor which are made of wood or rug…? And brushing against the touchpad by mistake while watching a movie? My remote is on the table while I watch a movie, I am not fiddling with it. I must be weird (and you, too, apparently).
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Apple Launched Its Big New Vision for TV 10 Years Ago Today
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None of these anniversary posts are very relevant. Just filling the space when not much to write about. At least this one is 10 years instead of the random numbers in the past articles.
Apple TV shares the same struggles as the iPad Pro and Vision Pro: amazing hardware and raw performance, but lack of software support.
Even if you are correct to some degree this affects the Apple TV Far less because tvOS gives the least features out of the other OS’s Apple releases and not many people totally care about new tvOS Features they would be more happy that tvOS 26 supports every tvOS Capable system
The Apple TV is my favourite streaming device. Audio is good enough. The dealbreaker for me on other devices (apart from the OS being bad) is the lack of absolutely reliable system level frame rate matching. I want every video to play at the correct frame rate and set the display accordingly. Apparently this is a hard problem if you’re not Apple.
I used to like it, but after smart TVs have become the standard I see no use for this anymore. I haven't turned it on for at least a couple of years now.
I do that on my netflix app on my tv. Don't se the use for the apple tv gadget anymore.
Gosh I’m starting to feel old. My first Mac was a plastic MacBook with IntelCore 2 Duo and my first AppleTV was a shiny aluminum box, my first iPhone was imported from the US and jailbroken to allow a local carrier, and it was the first one. I remember purchasing software in boxes and the amazement ad Apple’s Aperture. Ok. Ok. Enough.
Anyway, AppleTV proved to be much more than a hobby in the long run. Thanks to Apple I cut the cord and never looked back.
Anyway, AppleTV proved to be much more than a hobby in the long run. Thanks to Apple I cut the cord and never looked back.
I still have them because of Atmos surround sound via AirPods Pro. It's witchcraft.
We have two of AppleTV 4K 2017 (64GB) and they both run tvOS26 without noticeable issues. Haven't seen jerky movements or stutter so far. If you really look closely, then there is a very slight difference in UI speed when connected to a HD TV or a 4K TV.
When I bought the first one it has been in daily use ever since. It replaced cable and DVD in just two weeks and that is now 8 years ago. The second one for the bedroom was bought just a few months later. No regrets whatsoever.
But I'm certainly in for a new model that supports hardware raytracing. Fingers crossed.
Hello,
this might be a settings issue? Go to Settings.>Video and Audio> Format - select- 4K SDR.
Go down to Match Content> Range & Frame Rate (turn On).
You should still see video in HDR and Dolby Vision. When its broadcast that way.
You should lose the other things You have been experiencing.
There was a thread about this a few days ago. I can’t find now?
Hope this helps.
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We are strong on Apple products (MBP and Air with M1, watches, ipads), but have sold both apple TV boxes and happy with firesticks on all 5 TVs.
ChannelsDVR is among the smartest things we moved to. Been three years and LOVE it. Up until this spring, have been running it on a 2013 MBP as the server. Wife friendly too!