Apple Releases tvOS 11.2 for 4th and 5th Generation Apple TV Models

[RagingBrosGaming]

Apparently, you haven't used Plex since 2009. It's a great product that works on every platform.

Please share your "modern" solution that allows us to stream our personal media library to every device that is better than Plex (which, BTW, is FREE). Keep in mind it needs to not only stream to every device IN my house, but it needs to stream to my phones and tablets when I am AWAY from my house (FOR FREE).

That’s Easy!!!

Apparently, you haven't used Plex since 2009. It's a great product that works on every platform.

Please share your "modern" solution that allows us to stream our personal media library to every device that is better than Plex (which, BTW, is FREE). Keep in mind it needs to not only stream to every device IN my house, but it needs to stream to my phones and tablets when I am AWAY from my house (FOR FREE).

See Plex has its limitations and has always had them. But with what I use, all of my music, shows, movies, pictures etc play flawlessly on every device I own at home or on the go for FREE! But I’m choosing to be secretive this morning, Why? Well if you don’t know what it is it yet then you’re obviously living in the Stone Age via Plex.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

That’s Easy!!!

See Plex has its limitations and has always had them. But with what I use, all of my music, shows, movies, pictures etc play flawlessly on every device I own at home or on the go for FREE! But I’m choosing to be secretive this morning, Why? Well if you don’t know what it is it yet then you’re obviously living in the Stone Age via Plex.

I'm not much into playing games or wasting time, so I'll just assume you're trolling since you still haven't given any proof to backup your comments.

But to use your own words, with Plex "all of my music, shows, movies, pictures etc play flawlessly on every device I own at home or on the go for FREE!".

Now, excuse me...I have some episodes of the Flinstones to watch...

 

[Jayderek]

I can upload a picture of the 4K Dolby Vision logo on every Star Wars movie page and I can upload a video showing my oled info of Dolby Vision and 4k

no screenshots yet huh? interesting

 

[jagooch]

That’s Easy!!!

See Plex has its limitations and has always had them. But with what I use, all of my music, shows, movies, pictures etc play flawlessly on every device I own at home or on the go for FREE! But I’m choosing to be secretive this morning, Why? Well if you don’t know what it is it yet then you’re obviously living in the Stone Age via Plex.

Plex is just awesome for TV shows, Movies , queuing up Youtube video to watch on the big stream. I haven't tried their Photo or Music apps yet. When I want to watch one of my blu-ray movies ( ripped to mkv ), I always use Plex, wherever in the world I am, And with the device sync feature, I can be offline and still access my media.

 

[Mac 128]

You're correct sorry yes, it doesn't also change resolution. This is what happens when I have little sleep That being said the color space and frame rate issues were big...

I agree about Amazon Prime app. Heck they haven't even updated it for iPhone X yet.

Played around with it last night. The lack of auto resolution switching may not be as big an issue as I thought. However it is still giant pain in the ass and I can't really figure out why they didn't include it. Maybe it's coming in a future update?

Normally, switching the resolution would be a 10-14 step process to go from 1080p 60Hz SDR to 4K 25Hz HDR, and back. Now, I can pretty much switch between 1080p 60Hz SDR and 4K 60Hz SDR and the ATV will auto switch between frame rate and color space from there. That's still a fair number of steps whenever I want to watch something in 4K, but several fewer than selecting the exact option with framerate and Colorspace.

But here's the good news ... It appears to automatically apply HDR 10 colors pace profiles to 1080p resolution where there's a 4K HDR movie being requested while the screen is set to 1080p instead of 4K. I haven't explored this fully, but it more or less allows me to leave the ATV set to 1080p and watch 4K HDR movies at 1080p without worrying about Proper color space or framerate, if I forget to switch to 4K for optimal PQ.

I have a Sony 900E which upscales HD to 4K beautifully (better than the ATV IMO), and if I'm being honest, the 4K resolution is the least of it. In most cases, HD looks as good as most 4K images, particularly from a certain distance. So if this works out with good Colorspace application on 1080p streams from 4K films then I won't have to constantly switch the ATV to get some benefits, particularly with casual viewing, and only make the effort for 4K, when the movie warrants it.

 

[anticipate]

I have a Sony 900E which upscales HD to 4K beautifully (better than the ATV IMO), and if I'm being honest, the 4K resolution is the least of it. In most cases, HD looks as good as most 4K images, particularly from a certain distance. So if this works out with good Colorspace application on 1080p streams from 4K films then I won't have to constantly switch the ATV to get some benefits, particularly with casual viewing, and only make the effort for 4K, when the movie warrants it.

I see this too on modern sets (I have a Samsung MU8000 55", but I also saw it on a cheap Vizio 4K from last year). That being that HD upscaling is so good on 4K sets, given a quality HD source, that it LOOKS like 4K. I am a film producer and we target 4K for acquisition. But the crazy thing is, when I view "quality" HD on these modern sets, like footage from the old Canon C300 camera, it looks amazing!

This is unexpected but not fully surprising if you look at Hollywood. Many theaters have 4K (or more) projection schemes and many films are made on the Arri Alexa, which is a 2.5K camera. In fact a lot of Hollywood's 4K films are actually upscaled from near HD on that camera (with VFX, titles, etc in 4K). And when you're shooting 24fps on a 180 degree shutter, and you move the camera, you lose a lot of that resolution anyway.

4K in cameras is a big deal - you can crop, do a lot etc. 4K in displays is a big deal - because the upscaling is so good. 1080p sources on these displays seems to not suffer.

Bottom line - I get it

 

[kmm333]

My AirPods still won’t show up as a speaker with this update. I have to manually connect them in Settings. Wasn’t this supposed to be a feature addition in tvOS 11?

 

[friedmud]

This is a major update for ATV 4K users with 4K TVs especially those with HDR sets. Now you can specify in the menu for the ATV to respect the DR and frame rate of the content, and let the TV do the scaling/conversion instead of the ATV. It's a small thing but a huge, necessary update so the TV isn't forced to display incorrect mismatched colors and frame rates for non-compliant content.

The ability to respect HDR has definitely made things a LOT better. Before this, I had to turn off HDR on my ATV 4k because so much stuff looked washed out (including the main ATV home screen!). Now everything looks just like it should!

I wish it also let you honor the native resolution of the content. My TV (Sony 65X900E) does a MUCH better job of upscaling 1080p, noisy content than the ATV 4k does. For instance, watching old shows on the built-in Netflix App looks a lot better than using the Netflix App on the ATV 4k.

Its interesting I was really looking forward to this but now it makes me realize how much content is actually not HDR. I think one more tweak to make this work better is to not have it switch every time it goes back to the menu. In Netflix especially its super annoying with the constant DR switching. It kind of makes sense seeing it work in practice why Apple initally went the route they did.

I'll take a 2-second black screen any day instead of the washed-out nonsense that the ATV4k was originally doing.

 

[amegicfox]

after updating Apple TV 4 to 11.2, when using a MacBook Air on airplay the audio is cracking

is anyone having this problem

 

[ikir]

It is a HiSense H8

It is a H65MEC5555. Do you know it has a read HDR? It should

 

[jb-net]

Great. Next ToDo: YouTube 4K.

 

[Mufasa804]

Great. Next ToDo: YouTube 4K.

Much needed but it's not going to happen any time soon. Or ever possibly.

 

[anticipate]

Much needed but it's not going to happen any time soon. Or ever possibly.

It's one of the two apps that I still use on my "Smart TV" ( a Samsung) to get 4K; YouTube and Vudu. (neither are 4K on ATV). On my older Vizio 4K TV, it had the problem of also not supporting the right CODEC so it also didn't play 4K YT. haha

Now I just have two sources: 4K ATV for most content, and the Samsung for YT/Vudu (in 4K). Rumor is Comcast will have an ATV app for their services too at some point, then I can ditch their box.