I wish I could just opt in for only nature. I'm so sick of seeing certain cities.
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Apple TV Gets New Underwater Screensavers
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I was gonna say...a few nights ago, I looked up...and there was a humpback whale. I thought, "I didn't know that one even existed".
I love the cityscapes, they are beautiful. But the space and underwater screensavers are not it, so boring.
The people that design these are probably the same people who sit around and make the emojis that "everyone" loves........shrug. Valuable use of resources.
Here's a good clone: https://www.screensaversplanet.com/screensavers/after-dark-flying-toasters-1153/
No settings or "Ride of the Valkyries" music, but it's free and works on Catalina.
These are professional photographers contracted by Apple.
Here's a lollipop. Be happy, eh?
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I greatly appreciate Apple's effort to capture the world in 4K and deliver to imagery to millions of households around the world... for free! These captures are a great way to show the people the world that we are destroying with our industry.
Mine too, started with tvOS 13. What a turd of an update.
I wish Apple would fix this.
I guess this is new?
Where?? Not for the aerial screensavers there isn't. PLEASE prove me wrong as there are some screensavers I absolutely hate and some that I really like. No clue why Apple doesn't allow us to pick our favorites.
I love these screensavers. Many times, I'll have music playing and the TV on just to watch the screensaver as I'm going about doing stuff in my house.
The Bump-head Parrot Fish one looks absolutely STUNNING on my 75" 4K TV, especially in a mostly darkened room. I had wanted a way to display it at will. Now, thanks to learning about the swipe to change function I can do that. By the way the swipe works on the remote app as well as the actual remote. Now if I could find a way to delete the ones I don't care for...
This has been one of my most wanted features of tvOS since the introduction of the Aerials.
Still nothing......
Aside from "we're busy doing other stuff", I suspect there are two reasons why Apple hasn't ported these itself:
One, they're quite big, and on tvOS Apple is mostly in charge of fitting what can fit in memory and purging code and data resources of less-used things (which can be reloaded from Apple as needed), while on the Mac, many users have much less free space and wouldn't appreciate the system eating huge chunks of it.
Two, since they're quite big, they eat up a lot of bandwidth to download. Apple can pretty reasonably assume that a running AppleTV is on some sort of broadband connection, where downloading a few gigabytes at any time is somewhat reasonable. On a Mac, on the other hand, users may get somewhat upset if they're on a low-bandwidth WiFi connection in a coffee shop and their Mac decides to download a gigabyte or two of screensavers (and any schedule you can think of for alleviating this problem wouldn't apply to everybody).
Solve those two, and you're back to it being probably pretty low on the to-do list (since pretty screensavers are a legit selling point for the AppleTV, while for the Mac they can come across as a waste of batteries).
In the meantime, several here have posted the link to the "Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for Mac" on GitHub - that's a way to do it now (was coming in here to post it myself).
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Please don't get rid of the TouchPad, I quite like it. It's very intuitive to use (as in, don't have to think about it). Making the remote white (or, hell, bright red) wouldn't hurt - and would fit with Apple's white accessories theme - but I suspect they'd balk at having the remote and ATV be different colors.
I'd like them to keep the same control layout (maybe add a mute button if people really want it), but make the casing a little larger and more rounded/ergonomic. The super-thin slab of glass and metal is "elegant" but it's stupidly hard to pick up off a table. When it's in a Griffin SurvivorPlay case (long since discontinued, and far superior to the cheap silicone cases on Amazon), it's much more comfortable to hold, easier to pick up, and easier to orient in the hand. Putting Apple's Remote Loop on it also makes it easier to orient, and thus equipped, it's my favorite remote. But, I shouldn't have to wrap it up in accessories to make it usable.
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Oof I may be wrong. I’m not home with my Apple TV so I may be thinking of the settings for the photos sections. Sorry if I got your hope up.
Come on! Stop being a cheap skate. It's insulting wanting the A12X chip in a product for 129.
People are getting greedy and I don't like it. Save hard for something that is beautiful made, built and updated monthly. All of those things cost money. If you don't want to pay there rather decent 179, then buy a crappy Amazon or Android product. I guarantee the experience will be poor and you'll miss the polished Apple experience.
A TOM FORD product will never be the price of a H&M piece and an Apple product will never be the price of a poor Amazon design.
Apple does not do cheap. It's aim in everything is to offer a beautiful user experience for many years. The Apple TV 4K just like the HD model and the 3 and 2 before that do that very very well.
If you want cheap, please shop elsewhere. I'd rather have quality from my all in one media centre.
Yes, you can “switch users”, but that only works for media. Doesn’t apply to anything else. My wording was perhaps poorly chosen, but from my perspective SWITCH USER should change everything to that user.
Also, there’s nothing quick about the process.
You’re in luck. There’s an awesome Third party screensaver that pulls these very videos and has tons of display options. I can’t remember the name but google around for it, it’s awesome.
Would you buy a 4K box right now? I’m itching to upgrade from my 3rd generation as it appears to be getting glitchy. But my usual luck will see a new one will come out just as my return period expires. It happened before!
Honestly for the price I'd just get one now. If a new one comes out you can always sell the 4k box (even sell the 3rd gen as parts too for a few bucks) to recover some of your money. There are no rumors of a new box, and the soonest it will come is March, but that's unlikely.
I want my Flying Toasters back!!!!!
Uhh.... no one understood that reference? It was a screensaver reference from the 1980s-90s. I must be old.
Uhh.... no one understood that reference? It was a screensaver reference from the 1980s-90s. I must be old.
I got it - I got that reference.I want my Flying Toasters back!!!!!
Uhh.... no one understood that reference? It was a screensaver reference from the 1980s-90s. I must be old.
Also the flying monkeys one.