Of course it's only for the betas. How could anyone could think that a release version would require connecting your atv to your computer to update. Occasionally using common sense would be a good idea, not a bad one.
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Apple Releases First Beta of tvOS 9.1
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I wouldn't call it significant (more Apply hype machine than fact). It shares 95-96% of it's code with IOS 9, so only 4-5% of TvOS is unique to the ATV. Most of that has been speculated to be solely related to app slicing and how it displays info on films/shows.
Sorry I am too lazy to retrieve sources to cite, but google. There have been a ton of articles out in the tech news media about it (Verge, Cnet, all the usual suspects).
Emoji of course. I've been waiting for this for a long time on my TV set
Looks wise, aside from a color swap and a tile animation, it's really on the surface the same. Heck, navigation with the remote is exactly the same.... text input still sucks.... BUT..... the voice search with Siri does give a meaningful and worthwhile experience worth an upgrade, as well as the speed improvements in both streaming and on the system end.
I'll give you this... the 2012 update was noting more than 720-1080p with a slight under the hood speed bump, barely counts.... so we're talking 5 years.... and yes, in 5 years I think a lot of people expected more, and apple could have delivered a lot more (great improvement but not ready for prime time in a lot of ways.... totally unpolished).... but the app store (when they fix the mess that it currently is) is where it will shine. The iPhone wasn't all that special or exciting until developers built apps that made it special. That will likely be true of the ATV. It's only going to get better. And if apple gets the new siri remote out of their butts and let's developers skirt the need to make every game work with it... it has great game potential for the casual gamer. The siri remote is great for some game situations, awful for most. It's the best and worse advancement of the ATV.... it brings some innovation to the device but stifles innvoation in apps and has caused a large number of developers to pause. The developers are going to be who bring new function.... not apple... as it was with the iPhone and iPad. IOS itself offers very little to the end user.... it's the apps/developers that do.
Is a universal search API for all apps like my personal iTunes library and for apps like Plex available for 9.1?
give Devs time. Better apps are a coming
mine did this as well until I turned on HDMI CEC control for the receiver- Remote turns off my television but not my audio receiver
iTunes sucks. That's the hard truth.... It needs a serious overhaul if it's to perform like a real media center like Plex
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Yes, you can stream video from your Mac but I want to see a desktop extension I can move my mouse in and out.
watchOS isn't built off iOS (as people think it is). tvOS and iOS are essentially the same, that's why tvOS and iOS apps are universal. Apple Watch apps are extensions inside the iOS binary.
Interesting huh?
I would love voice dictation. I hate using that horrible on screen keyboard. So far that's my only gripe.
But isn't iOS just built off of OS X? Steve announced it in the iPhone unveiling at WWDC 2007. Yet it still deserved its own OS name (at the time, iPhone OS).
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Am I the only person that's super annoyed that there's no TV power button on the remote? It's the only thing that stops the ATV from being absolutely perfect. My TV doesn't support HDMI-CEC, and I'm not sure I see the point of having volume buttons but leaving off power
Am I the only person that's super annoyed that there's no TV power button on the remote? It's the only thing that stops the ATV from being absolutely perfect. My TV doesn't support HDMI-CEC, and I'm not sure I see the point of having volume buttons but leaving off power
If you hold the TV button down for a second, a sleep pop-up option appears and if you press sleep, it turns it your TV off. It works on my 32" LG LED TV that does not support HDMI-CEC. And as such, waking the TV up does not turn on the TV, but it does indeed shut it down, which I can't explain.
Not everyone's receiver has HDMI, so without optical there is no other way of getting 5.1 sound. Even worse, some early HDMI receivers came with an HDMI version that would only support video, not audio.
But if you own a 4K TV all those apps are already built into the TV? My Samsung has Netflix, Amazon etc in 4K
But it won't connect to a Bluetooth keyboard.
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I had this problem as well. Presumably you are running HDMI directly into your TV. Most newer TVs have optical audio out. Your TV should strip audio from the HDMI input and send it back out that port. Just run a cable from there to your AV Receiver and Bob's your uncle.
Wouldn't it be easy to either remove apps from the "app store" or mark apps in the "app store" when an app in the store is installed by the user?
Hard to believe that entering user ID and password information remains as cumbersome as it does. My Samsung smart TV has a much better point and click process for entering such information, which is a surprise given the Samsung smart TV pretty much sucks.
Hard to believe that entering user ID and password information remains as cumbersome as it does. My Samsung smart TV has a much better point and click process for entering such information, which is a surprise given the Samsung smart TV pretty much sucks.
No, but are you a developer?
They share the Foundation. The UI is a completely different framework.
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Is there anyone who actually installed the OS to tell us if they changed or improved something?