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Apple to Debut Apple TV With 4K HDR Support at September Event
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YouTube 4K support is getting better - HDR is coming.
iTunes content should be updated, but SD/HD prices might drop to make room for a new 4K option (which you might not gain rights to depending on your purchases). However, Netflix and Amazon are really pushing it, and 4K HDR is substantially better than regular 1080p. But, 4K itself isn't all that impressive without the extended color gamut, so make sure whatever television you get has HDR. Whenever someone says they don't think HDR makes that much difference, I tend to think they haven't seen real 4K HDR vs 1080p. Old Blurays will look like a DVD compared to UHD with HDR.
I don't plan on updating until my 1080 or 720p (bedroom) panels die. 4K is nice but 1080p is more than sufficient for my great room. I sit 12' from the TV and doubt I'd be able to tell the difference. HDR, probably, but I have yet to see it to confirm reports. Honestly half the time I'm on my phone while watching like most people anyway.
But the really important question is - Will Apple TV get a native Youtube TV app? (Please)
iOS update should make its way to tvOS soon. AirPlay just isn't cutting it, and they just opened the service up to my area so now I'm waiting for the same update. Can't believe Hulu got theirs unified before YouTube.
Right, as much as I prefer Apple TV experience over Amazon Fire TV, Roku, etc., it's another box I need to plug into a TV and dedicate one of the inputs to.
I would love Apple-branded TV set with a motion sensor to detect when someone is nearby and show appropriate contents and respond to Siri commands.
1000 gig cap - 350gigs of normal use
4k uses 11.25 gigabytes per hour. So 57 hours of streaming a month. 3 TV's in my house, all streaming. That will be gone in 3 days.
It's just not viable
4k uses 11.25 gigabytes per hour. So 57 hours of streaming a month. 3 TV's in my house, all streaming. That will be gone in 3 days.
It's just not viable
You can already control the current AppleTV with Apple Watch
Interesting difference of opinion. Since I have neither and haven't done a lot of research but from the little I know HDR provides a deeper colours and blacks while pretty self explanatory 4k a sharper picture. I'm guessing the distance you sit from the TV would probably decide which of the two will make the biggest difference overall?
A 65" 4k HDR OLED is definitely on my wish list but even when on sale for around $4500 Canadian still a bit too expensive for my liking. Unless it gets down to at least $3000 I'll probably wait till my 1080p plasma kicks the bucket.
I laugh when I see posts like this. If you streamed everything with any sort of regularity, simple math shows 350GB a month ... 4K\HDR content streams an average of 10GB per hour. That means 30 hours a month... aka one hour a day, would burn your 350gb without ever turning on your computer. 3 hours a day would surpass the cap without any other data use.
With that said, most companies allow you to buy packages of discount data packs on top of the 1TB cap. Like any new technology, if you want to be bleeding edge, you pay a premium. No different.
you need a minimum of a 65 inch screen to see the massive difference. problem is a good 65 inch 4K tv is minimum $1500-$2000
do you know anything about 4K and TVs? you cannot see the real difference unless the 4K tv is 65 inches. those are minimum of $1500 for a good tv
I don't get the remote hate... has anyone tried going back to using the old remote or even the amazon fire remote? It's paaaaainful. The new remote is the single biggest reason to get the 4th gen ATV, IMO.
This is interesting for me to play my own photos as slideshows in 4K if it works properly and that is a big if. I never got my current Apple TV to stream my photos from my Mac fast enough so that it is a enjoyable experience. So I always unplug the Apple TV and plug the HDMI into my MBP.
4k and HDR would be wonderful but for the love of god pleeeeeease bring back the digital audio output!
Same here. And they just turned on 1tb cap in my area in December. But I went ahead with the fee for unlimited since I regularly went over 1tb.
Agreed. New remote is great, although I wouldn't mind it being slightly bigger. Also it's so symmetrical that when you pick it up it's hard to tell which way you're holding it without looking. Kind of annoying in a dark room.
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Electronics-UN65MU6300-65-Inch-Ultra/dp/B06XGXDDJZ
Not even the least expensive option, just a 2017 model. 4K TVs are much less expensive than they were 12 months ago.
Exactly. It’s getting painful to follow him on Twitter. Makes a big deal and links to an article, but it ends up being old info padded with nonsense.
Miss the days when he really got good scoops.
