I'd be disappointed if it wasn't a significant upgrade in functionality from the current version. Siri integration is one. I'd also hope there's better app organization. The layout now is an absolute nightmare.
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Apple Plans to Debut New Apple TV in September With Touch-Based Remote, Full App Store
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I'd be disappointed if it wasn't a significant upgrade in functionality from the current version. Siri integration is one. I'd also hope there's better app organization. The layout now is an absolute nightmare.
Curious here too. Don't know if it'll be more expensive, but I doubt that in the end it'll be any cheaper, and besides we'll just be paying a different piper. Everything hinges on whether we'll be able to truly get the channels we want (and only the channels we want), without any bundling, as well as the various prices of these individual channels.
But the fact that the rumored Apple 'bundle' will consist of approx 25 channels at a cost of $30-$40 makes me think there will be some bundling, and we will be unable to precisely pick our own individual channel line-up.
Either way I will be in the market for the new
TV.
Why use vlc when you can use Quicktime? Even if you have wmv files you can add Flip for mac to play those with Quicktime. Is this some kind of pirating need?
If they have a decent graphics chip in this, it could be a console killer. Especially if priced at $99.
Give me deep linking/search into Netflix, iTunes, add Amazon, and throw in a 3rd party DLNA app and I'm sold.
Why bring up piracy? Can't it be a simple matter of wanting to use free open-source software or VLC being a personal favorite?
This. Actually, I use a high-end programmed universal remote for mine, but there's no way a touch pad remote will be superior to the current Apple remote. You need a tactile experience when watching television.
Probably the same people paying $20 for less channels on Sling TV.
It its truly new it needs to have at minimum "space shifting" to other iOS devices. But what would make it really great is if it offered "time shifting" (via an optional USB drive) too. None of that is novel. Comcast and DirecTV already offer this service. But it's not available to my knowledge on a stand-alone, no monthly fee, device. Sling does time-shifting. Don't know if there is "free" time shifting anymore.
I can't think of another reason to upgrade either my Apple TV 3 unless a killer app develops. If Apple TV 4 is just a platform for Apple's own "non-cable" cable then I'll pass. But I'm hoping it going to compete with SlingBox.
I can't think of another reason to upgrade either my Apple TV 3 unless a killer app develops. If Apple TV 4 is just a platform for Apple's own "non-cable" cable then I'll pass. But I'm hoping it going to compete with SlingBox.
True. But this is a device that has to have a power cord and an HDMI cable attached to it - at some point, smallness becomes a liability.
I never got an Apple TV just because typing the names with that white thing was so annoying, such turn off. I hope they release a good remote control.
That's a lot of writing that's going to be needed. Maybe I should consider a career change...
Agreed. Having a touch remote seems like a problem, unless that touch remote can now also control all my other devices. I don't need more than one remote to control TV, stereo, plex unit, cable box and AppleTV. Please let me keep using a single Harmony remote.
I used an Apple TV for a couple of years then finally moved it to the basement TV and put an Amazon Fire on my TV in the living room. Amazon has their act together with voice commands and free streaming video for Prime members. I am hoping Apple comes out with something amazing enough to compel me to buy a new Apple TV but it is going to take more than adding Siri and a touch remote.
About time apple! You've been giving Apple TV no love and its not right.