Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Apple TV 4 Pre-Order Thread

Which Apple TV will you get?

  • Total voters
    907
  • Poll closed .
loekf said:
I have the FireTV and Nvidia Shield ATV controllers and those are clunky and relatively heavy compared to a DS4 controller. I hope this one is better.
Click to expand...

Hey do you have the Nvidia Shield Console? I bought mine last week and love it! Do you see the Apple TV being better than it?
 
torana355 said:
How do you know its hitting 1080p? I use the test video on netflix to test and it only gets to 720p max.
Click to expand...
Here's what I'm getting on my ATV3 (pardon the bad photo):


temp01.jpg
 
  • Like
Reactions: TurboPGT! and Lancetx
jtrue28 said:
That is incredible compression. To get 1080p? at 725KB/s is freaking amazing. (5800kb(its)s / 8...to get Bytes)
Click to expand...

6 Mbps is ok for 1080p, depending on which profile and tools you use. I've never seen e.g. banding on Netflix streams. Some scene/release groups who encode Blu-ray rips quite aggressively do much worse... (file size in the 2-5 GB range, but artifacts).
 
I had the 160gb Apple TV 1. Had the 2nd generation Apple TV 2.

Moved on to the Amazon Fire tv stick. Just got 2nd generation Amazon Fire tv.

Also have minix neo 8x-h s812 android box that's quad core with 2gb ram ($159 from Amazon)

I just ordered the Apple TV 4 64gb. Not sure.

Do you guys think it's overkill to get Apple TV 4? (I sold Apple tv1 and 2 a while back). I do like Apple interface better than Amazon and android box.

I have direct tv already as well.
 
michaelruggeri said:
I purchased the new Apple TV 4 this morning. The streaming was always better looking on the Apple TV over Roku by a small margin, but the Roku 4 closed that gap. But the new Apple TV 4 will allow us all to put our iPad apps and iPhone apps on the Apple TV screen, thus negating the need to take the extra steps to air play. That is a very nice feature. We all have apps on our mobile devices that we air play. Now, those apps will be on the screen.
Click to expand...
If you expect existing iOS apps to magically be available on the Apple TV, you will be disappointed. These devices require very different user interfaces and there are a number of differences in the runtime environment. Apps have to be ported to tvOS by the developers.
I wonder if any of you know if we will have to sign up for all the apps we have now again on the new box, or whether the new box will allow us just to port our mobile apps and the apps we have now on Apple TV to the new screen without additional steps added.
Click to expand...
It's up to the developers. They can offer tvOS apps as "universal apps" together with their iOS counterparts, or release them separately.
 
aneftp said:
I had the 160gb Apple TV 1. Had the 2nd generation Apple TV 2.

Moved on to the Amazon Fire tv stick. Just got 2nd generation Amazon Fire tv.

Also have minix neo 8x-h s812 android box that's quad core with 2gb ram ($159 from Amazon)

I just ordered the Apple TV 4 64gb. Not sure.

Do you guys think it's overkill to get Apple TV 4? (I sold Apple tv1 and 2 a while back). I do like Apple interface better than Amazon and android box.

I have direct tv already as well.
Click to expand...

If you use Airplay at all, the Apple TV 4 makes a lot of sense as that is a USP. If it wasn't for Airplay, I would be content with a Roku or Amazon Fire TV.
 
Looks like the ship date has slipped to Nov 2nd at the earliest for next day shipping.
 
mistame said:
Looks like the ship date has slipped to Nov 2nd at the earliest for next day shipping.
Click to expand...

Simply because the first available date yesterday was 30th which is a Friday. They won't ship over the weekend so the next available date is the 2nd which is Monday hence the jump.
 
NickTuesday said:
Did anyone else get a phone call from Apple regarding their Apple TV order? I wasn't home for the call and wondering what it was about.
My first time ordering directly from Apple, is this common?
Click to expand...

its possible they want to confirm your payment info since its your first online order.
 
For those asking which storage to choose, it seems like its mostly for apps and games. From the site:

Choose between 32GB or 64GB of storage.
If you plan to use your Apple TV primarily to stream movies, TV shows, and music or to play a few apps and games, you’ll probably be fine with 32GB of storage. If you plan to download and use lots of apps and games, choose the 64GB configuration.1 Keep in mind when making your decision, that some apps, when in use, do require additional storage.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back