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Apple to Debut New A8-Based Apple TV Box With App Store and Siri at WWDC
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No, we're talking about (up to) 4K content going out to an external 4K screen; that doesn't exist, which is why it is being rumored for this future apple TV.
Your iphone 6 is 1334x750, and the current iphone AV adapter only feeds a 1080p HDMI connection. It's not a stretch to render to that resolution, and the refresh rate adjusts to the native source rate. When the resolution is 4x the size, and the refresh rate is fixed by the screen, the processing load is seriously significant.
My guess is that the new features and storage will put AppleTV starting at $99USD. If they add the ability to run full fledged games and ports of stuff like TitanFall I'd pay even more. I can dream, right?
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Now this is a product I can get excited about! All this watch news lately is elitist $20k, 30 minute appointment baloney.
I'm ready to cut the cable cord Apple!
I'm ready to cut the cable cord Apple!
It would seem like a HD camera accessory that you could plug-in and set it where you want it to point would be a nice touch.
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Apple doesn't control the movie or music pricing even though they try mightily to get us a better deal. Also, watch for preorder and sale specials. I just got the HD Ghostbusters with extras for $4.99
I buy the iTunes movies now because they all come with extras and a DVD menu like interface that works on my iPhone, iPad, my 2 AppleTV's and iTouch. I don't even need to download the files to my computer to access any of this if i don't want to. Forget the hassle of Handbrake ripping. And I absolutely hate the UV downloads on Blurays! You have to enter codes and passwords at each of the individual studio sites and then they threaten to delete your account if you don't buy anything new within a year. Had it happen to me. I also had problems with the codes on some sites.
Give me iTunes movies any day of the week against the other options. It's still a better deal.
Seriously. Sunday called, it wants it's post back.
Are you actually still talking about this?
I posted roughly twenty minutes after you did. Apparently time has as little meaning to you as words. Wednesday is now Sunday, I guess.
I know, that's why the new AppleTV should have at least HDMI 2.0 and probably also HDCP 2.2.
However, I was strictly talking about the SoC capabilities. The A7 as well as the A8 can drive such resolutions perfectly fine already (because it can already decode 4K H.264 movies with up to 30fps and about 50mbps bitrate) and it also has to downscale that to the iPhone's native resolution, which means that an AppleTV with an A8 is more than capable to do it, because the A8 is even more powerful (4K up to 60fps and about 100mbps bitrate). The current AppleTV 3 uses an A5, so of course this doesn't currently work, even if there would be HDMI support.
Current iPhone's are not resolution limited, they can support up to 4K easily with the A8, if such a screen would be available. Also, the iPhone AV adapter is totally different kind of hardware, which has it's own limitations (it has it's own, very weak 1080p H.264 encoding/decoding unit). The SoC is a lot more powerful than you might think. It's just that Apple limits it' capabilities to the outside world through it's APIs, like the H.265 support that is already included within the A8, but no one currently has access to it, excluding Apple.
Long story short:
If the new AppleTV uses at least an A8, it can drive a 4K display without any problems. An A8X would be even better of course. Maybe Apple will use their A8X salvage parts and disable the third core (like they did with the A5), so it has a dual-core A8X in the new AppleTV. I would actually prefer this over an A8, because the A8X has a lot more graphics performance, higher memory bandwidth and should also be pretty power-efficient when you disable it's third core.
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Yeah that is what I hope will be possible. Basically the only reason why I would consider Apple TV over Amazon's Fire TV or the Google stick.
4k AppleTV capability would kind of opening the tab for me on looking at high resolution pictures without the need to plug them via USB stick into my 4k TV. Next could be the possibility to get 4k movies/series via iTunes.
My point was the ORIGINAL post was on Sunday so why are you still rambling on about it.
I must say though, you've suprised me. I didn't expect I'd have to breakdown and explain that to someone so intelligent.
Before you waste your time replying again. I'd refer to the S section of the dictionary you swallowed. Specifically the page with words beginning sar.....