Apple TV: Buy Now, or Wait?

[lmannyr]

I need to pick up an Apple TV. The current version is not gigabit supported. Will the next version have gigabit ethernet support?

I'll be using it mainly to airplay Plex unless Apple brings the AppStore into the ATV. When and if they do, then i'll run Plex off of the ATV. The PLEX server is on a gigabit network. With Gigabit ATV, it sure would be faster! Not interested in other boxes (Roku, etc...) since everything is Apple.

Will there be a ATV4 this year? With gigabit ethernet?

 

[Intell]

The Apple TV would see no gain from having a gigabit Ethernet connection. All of the media streamed to it falls well within 100 T-Base's abilities and about half within 10 T-base's.

 

[martinm0]

I've never had any issues streaming over wifi (from Airport Extreme) to the ATV, and some of my 1080p files are well over 10GBs, so I very much doubt we'll see gigabit in the next iteration. Heck, we'll be lucky if there is ethernet at all with the way Apple is sliming down the rMBPs and Airs.

If you need one, buy one now. At $99 you can't go wrong (or grab a refurb for $85). If a new one comes out, buy that too!! Can never have too many ATVs!

 

[macalec]

I need to pick up an Apple TV. The current version is not gigabit supported. Will the next version have gigabit ethernet support?

I'll be using it mainly to airplay Plex unless Apple brings the AppStore into the ATV. When and if they do, then i'll run Plex off of the ATV. The PLEX server is on a gigabit network. With Gigabit ATV, it sure would be faster! Not interested in other boxes (Roku, etc...) since everything is Apple.

Will there be a ATV4 this year? With gigabit ethernet?

I would not count on the Apple TV adding gigabit ethernet. Mostly because there is no need. Most consumers use wifi for streaming HD content with no issues. More likely, Apple will add 802.11ac in the future for more bandwidth.