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Apple TV 4 wishlist

xmlninja said:
Whats your guys wishlist for apple tv 4?
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1) UHD 3840x2160p60

2) HDMI 2.0

3) If the remote is redesigned, keep the responsive button style. (Some people would like a fancier remote, but, I hate small, mushy buttons. Keep the big, short-stroke, positive-click buttons.)

4) An optional high-friction weight to attach to the bottom so it won't slip off the table.
 
here are mine


-UI with ability for user profiles (the wife and I don't watch the same things)
-Updated iOS Apple Remote App to build preferred shows list and sync to apple TV
-Remote with Touch ID to recognize different users (this would turn on the Apple TV and load all that Users preferred app/shows/movies and recommendations)
 
1. Digital TV tuner(s) - HDTV antenna
2. Cablecard support?
3. Integrated Live TV/Apple TV experience
4. Tivo-like guide and DVR functions.
5. Amazon Prime Streaming (It's probably Amazon not allowing this)
6. Integrated TV/Apple TV remote

I'd like to replace my TiVo. I currently have an Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and a TiVo box. Wish I could replace with one unit.

The TiVo is OK. Does not do amazon prime streaming though. Netflix app is horrible and always plays choppy.
 
Pretty much the only thing I'd like is a UI capable of handling large libraries. The current one is just incapable of coping.
 
My wish list consists mostly of what others have said:
- 4K support
- HD audio
- GUI redesign

My old 2nd gen @ 720P actually still pleases me. Only reason I haven't upgraded yet to the current 1080P model is I would rather just wait for the next one.
 
Faster 802.11n - at least on par with an iPhone, but preferably MIMO.

As for DD 5.1 audio, the current model supports it. I've streamed ripped Blu-Ray movies and they have retain the full 5.1 audio stream. The encoding needs to include AAC pass-through, in addition to the standard audio stream.
 
APlotdevice said:
You can stream via the iPhone app using AirPlay, so I don't think Amazon is the limiting factor here.
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I used to AirPlay the Amazon Prime app from my iPad before I got a TV with the Amazon Prime app built in, but it would still be nice to have this as an app on the Apple TV itself.
 
-H.265 is a must going forward.
-Better UI
-Better remote
-App store

Add safari to it. It is easy to airplay any videos played in safari, but it is even easier to have that feature built in.
 
-Hand off like the app that shows up when you enter an Apple Store on the bottom left corner of an iPhone.

-Bluetooth remote so you don't have to point at the device and can hide it.

-Full Siri integration. Homekit, etc.

-More Airplay games. This is something with a lot of potential that isn't really advertised.

-NFC chip to use Apple Pay for TV subscriptions.

-Better integration within the Apple Ecosystem.

-Not directly an Apple TV thing but Rent-to-Buy would be great and so would upgrading to HD for the movie store.

-It would also be cool to use my Macbook's keyboard to control the Apple TV when I press down "fn".

-Lastly: being able to answer calls when airplaying an iTunes Store movie from phone like if you do it at a friends house you can still independently use your phone to it's full capacity without the movie turning off until you disconnect form local network.
 
Hardware:
- Modern multi-core SoC and plenty of system RAM (2+ GB) for apps/games
- UHD/4K + HDMI 2.x (or any other appropriate future-forward spec) support
- Low-latency Bluetooth input device support, primarily for game controllers
- Built-in Time Capsule - several tiers would be okay, but I'd at least expect 1TB/2TB/4TB options.

Software:
- App Store
- Siri
- HomeKit integration
- Time Capsule specific features:
: Time Machine for all macs on a network
: Cache content from Apple's iTunes, iOS and Mac App Store ecosystems (would prevent expending bandwidth on redundant downloading of content)

I no longer believe a TV Tuner is forward thinking enough. With the App Store opened up, anyone could push their content natively to AppleTV. But Apple would be able to offer subscriptions to content as well. With Siri integration, accessing the content would be easier than ever.
 
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Safari or a dedicated App Store. I think both would accomplish much the same ends even if they arrive there quite differently.

Would also love to see an AppleTV app for my phone. Something that lets me touch the screen, organize the layout and interface it like it appears to be designed to do. The Remote app is great for iTunes, but it sucks for the AppleTV, IMHO.
 
Apple TV 4
4k
3D

NAS iTunes Server support so that I my media on NAS can finally be complete
HomeKit support
Hey Siri
Safari, just like any other iOS device
Facetime - requires a camera, or even 'airplay' from your other Apple devices's camera
App store - if an app works on iPad air, it is already better than 1080p, so it should be ok.
Game controllers
Amazon (ok, its a pipe dream)

Cord-cutting optional content i.e. I would like to subscribe to ESPN on Apple TV with no cable TV subscription. Ditto for any other channel. People skip commercials anyway, so let me just pay to for a subscription to any network I want. Of course, this requires the network to play nice, but I would sure like to pick and choose.

Unified search feature like Logitech Revue had - If I search for Firefly, it looks for media in my library, iTunes, Netflix, Amazon, youtube, and rest of WWW to provide results.

Better airplay (less lag when computer to TV)
 
I'll add smart and on the fly support for multiple photo libraries (iphoto/Aperture and of course upcoming replacement desktop photo app)


mtbdudex said:
I've got a AppleTV Gen 1 with 160GB hard drive, it syncs to whatever I tell it in iTunes.

That's a royal PIA for me, a hobbyist photographer, I use Aperture with 9 different aperture libraries.....

I have to go into Aperture, choose the specific aperture library, then exit it.

Then go into iTunes, select aperture, then it will sync to that.....way too time consuming, and sync takes long-long time


I bought a Apple TV Gen 3, not opened yet.

If I decide to keep and open that, can I on the fly from the Apple TV Gen 3 menu on the HDTV tell it what aperture photo library to view for slideshows?

Or is that still dictated by iTunes?
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1. 4k playback.
2. displayport and hdmi and optical audio output.
3. h.265 support
4. act as a hub for your media. So having an external USB hard drive with all of your movies on it plugged into the apple tv, and the apple tv would serve other apple tv's or your itunes on your computer. Currently your usb drive is streamed from itunes on your computer. I'd like to watch some movies without my computer being required to be on. Better yet, integrating time capsule into it would be amazing.
5. New remote, bluetooth instead of IR
 
christarp said:
1. 4k playback.
2. displayport and hdmi and optical audio output.
3. h.265 support
4. act as a hub for your media. So having an external USB hard drive with all of your movies on it plugged into the apple tv, and the apple tv would serve other apple tv's or your itunes on your computer. Currently your usb drive is streamed from itunes on your computer. I'd like to watch some movies without my computer being required to be on. Better yet, integrating time capsule into it would be amazing.
5. New remote, bluetooth instead of IR
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Bluetooth on PS3/PS4 makes using a universal remote a PIA, so if Apple also put a 3.5mm IR input on the Gen4 back, then I'm ok with that.

Many AVR's, CableBoxes, Bluray players have 3.5mm IR input on the back for rack mtg out of sight of the display.
 
mtbdudex said:
Bluetooth on PS3/PS4 makes using a universal remote a PIA, unless they also put a 3.5mm IR input on the back, then I'm ok with that.
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True, universal remotes would be tougher. I suppose they could just leave the IR port on the front. I just don't like IR because where everything is it's hard to get it pointed at it just right.
 
I've just upgraded my aTV2 (jailbreak for infuse and Plex, when it worked) for a aTV3 now plexconnect (via openPlex) is so straight forward and reliable.

To be honest, all I really want is an App Store so I can get proper apps for some of the channels I want to watch, like Plex, iPlayer, etc. Dont understand why Apple haven't already done this as it's another, albeit small, revenue stream.

Anything else would just be the cherry on top :D
 
christarp said:
1. 4k playback.
2. displayport and hdmi and optical audio output.
3. h.265 support
4. act as a hub for your media. So having an external USB hard drive with all of your movies on it plugged into the apple tv, and the apple tv would serve other apple tv's or your itunes on your computer. Currently your usb drive is streamed from itunes on your computer. I'd like to watch some movies without my computer being required to be on. Better yet, integrating time capsule into it would be amazing.
5. New remote, bluetooth instead of IR
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I support a switch to bluetooth if only so that we'd have an official remote that could work with newer Macs and iOS devices.

I doubt Apple would integrate time capsule or even just hard drive support, as it would reduce demand for the AirPort Extreme and AP Time Capsule.
 
christarp said:
True, universal remotes would be tougher. I suppose they could just leave the IR port on the front. I just don't like IR because where everything is it's hard to get it pointed at it just right.
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agreed, hence having a 3.5mm IR input is the best solution, the IR emitter can be anywhere and the plug transfers the signal.

You put one of these somewhere visible to remote but out of view of nrmal viewing
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plug into here, the IR in
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