If there was a great karaoke app that might just push me to buy this thing. Sing into your Siri remote...would be awesome.
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Apple TV 4 Reviews: Siri is Helpful and There's Loads of Potential
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Or maybe, just maybe, Tim Cook might want to try and use some of the products his company is making? This never would have happened if Steve Jobs was there. The new Apple is happy with mediocrity. That's what happens when you have a CEO that leads by delegating.
So, I am still not sure that the 64gb is warranted. Thinking that the 32gb should be more than plenty. I will be buying 2 (one now, for one room, and another later, for another room), so I guess the 32gb will hold me over until I wrap my brain around how 64gb will even be necessary.
I think that was a great review, and I rather wait until Apple really get the ball rolling, and see all the features and updates working well on the the new Apple TV. In the meantime I will enjoy my Roku 4 with 4K!
I wonder if I can get my $17 stupid tax back for asking to get it tomorrow??
Mine still has preparing for shipment as the status... I'll update if it changes.
Ordered 7am PST on preorder morning 64gb version. Portland, OR USA.
Mine still has preparing for shipment as the status... I'll update if it changes.
Ordered 7am PST on preorder morning 64gb version. Portland, OR USA.
I would not have thought that "helping you find a remote that is lost in the cushions" to be the killer use case for a loop attachment. I'm not convinced Apple thought that, either. My guess is that they intended the loop to be used as with a Wii, making it exceedingly optional.
People have now stated that they should have included both the loop and HDMI cable in the base, at no charge. I'm sure there is someone saying the same thing about a game controller. It all adds up, people. Which is why they made the correct call, and included none of these things.
Interesting comment. I was wondering why they did this. But if they went to a grid, wouldn't it just wrap if you went past the end of the line?
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Read the Bloomberg article, it goes into effect Oct.29th (so sometime today) and it clearly says 3rd party listings will be removed. But it's just BS right?
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I never said its illegal to jailbreak. I said you want it jail broken to do illegal stuff. Two different things.
Well, no apps were actually
You can ALSO GET A CONVERTER $20-30 bucks. Coax or optical to HDMI, they exist you know... Man.
Fair enough. I don't really care who's doing it or not doing it -- sounds like me, the consumer, gets the short end of the stick. Since I already paid for Amazon Prime and all of my other TV's/streaming boxes work w/it, then I guess it's Apple who won't get my money at this time. They probably don't care, but I wonder if there's others out there like me.
They may be best off to make amends and work with Amazon so Amazon will create an ATV app if they *truly* want their product to be "the future of television" (in my house). I don't see how you can claim to be the future of television but make it non-inclusive.
Personally I'd rather have a dedicated "rewind 15 seconds" button on the remote rather than having to invoke siri each time I wondered what someone said.
It actually does. Selecting side to side is much, much faster than having to go diagonally such as to pick up the shift key in the second row. Once you get used to the trackpad, you can zip pretty quickly and accurately to the desired letter.
That said, keyboard entry still sucks. But the old layout really sucked too. So it's not like we've lost some fabulous UI, the old UI was awful too. The real solution is to avoid the onscreen keyboard - dictation mostly or an iPhone remote or a bluetooth keyboard.
I thought about this and I read that it works for some, not for others (check amazon forum). regardless, that would mean I need to run it off of an iOS device which I may not always have handy for my daughter to utilize. Plus I would imagine this would be a battery drain on said iOS device. Clunky workaround for something that should be easier IMO.
I am waiting too. I've learned the hard way to NEVER buy an Apple 1st Gen product.
I buy the best product they can put out, when they put it out. So I'm still on a 17" MBP an iPad 2, Apple tv 2 (it was cheap), and no iPhone (although the 6S would've been the one before I tasted Android freedom).
My PS3s have my streaming needs covered, and my Apple tvs now gather dust.
Waiting on a 17", 2TB SSD MBP (minimum) with hopefully more than 1 dumbass port, an iPad Pro 2 (for my daughter the artist) and a better Apple tv than this before I buy anything Apple again. Oh, and for someone to make aftermarket SSDs for Apple portables, so I can upgrade that and not the whole thing when I run out of space.
Yep, might be quite a while.
I will be doing the same as you. However, I just wish ATV4 would have shipped with 4K support! Maybe in a future update?
See this thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-had-antennae-in.1913761/page-3#post-22149908
I now have a ViewHD device and it works well with my ATV3 (it provides optical audio out from HDMI input)
http://www.amazon.com/ViewHD-Extrac...p/B00LKF6CPG/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8
So I can keep my current home theatre setup and replace the ATV3 with an ATV4 (eventually - if EyeTV or similar ever comes to TVios apps). It has also solved a lip-sync problem that I had with sending EyeTV from an iMac to a projector and hifi.
I agree. I too thought the Kinect was great with my xb1 the first week and then I stopped using it. Now I feel it's just a gimmick.
I have never used voice search on the Amazon FTV either.
