The most current Appletv has the white outline around the “menu“ prior to that it was just black, Apple doesn’t sell the older style anymore it’s not white because it’s sold separately It’s just the current model that ships with the Appletv.
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At least they dropped it from $79 to $59. Amazon has it for $53. Probably find it for less on a sale. You are likely using the app on the phone or pad in the mean time to remote control the ATV4K.
Also you have this new substitute as alternate choice, but I like the pad movement of Apple's.
Hoping someday a true design genius at Apple re-realizes that treating consumer product releases as minimalist design contests can finally reach the point of “too much.” Ios7 cough cough.
I’ve noticed that too. That plus the gross profile pic there’s clearly some attempt at a “brand” going on
This sounds like omen of Apple’s typical spec updates. I don’t see any rumored feature to get excited about and get me to upgrade my current 4K unit.
OMG that remote is beyond frustrating to use. I put a glow in the dark silicon sleeve on my remotes to help me find them and to know without looking which way is up.
Watching sports muted works perfectly fine. So does watching pretty much anything if you are deaf.
You should just use the Remote app on your phone. I’m guessing you will have your phone with you more often than not. I find it actually really useful.
Definitely agree with them going with 8K capability and thus the need for the A14 instead of the old A12 chip.
I work with blind and low vision people providing Access Technology services. The Apple TV is the most accessible set top box and TV interface overall. The remote is the key tool enabling the blind to access the Apple TV and all the apps that come with it. VoiceOver with the remote is very much like on iOS and blind users knowing VO on iPhone can pick up the remote and fly across the interface.
Dear Apple,
Ever since Disney+ came out last year, you have failed to refresh your 3.5-year-old-ancient-AppleTV. I waited and waited and waited patiently to plunk down $199 apiece for 2 new units for our house. Also, the Netflix app was years old and was basically useless unless I knew exactly what I wanted to watch.
Finally, I could wait no longer. I plopped down a whopping $29 for a Roku and I am floored by it's price-for-features as well, of course, it's Disney+ support. Oh, and Netflix is amazing on it.
-An ex-avid AppleTV fan
Ever since Disney+ came out last year, you have failed to refresh your 3.5-year-old-ancient-AppleTV. I waited and waited and waited patiently to plunk down $199 apiece for 2 new units for our house. Also, the Netflix app was years old and was basically useless unless I knew exactly what I wanted to watch.
Finally, I could wait no longer. I plopped down a whopping $29 for a Roku and I am floored by it's price-for-features as well, of course, it's Disney+ support. Oh, and Netflix is amazing on it.
-An ex-avid AppleTV fan
Hopefully the new remote is not made of freakin glass, my 5yr old smashed 3 remotes already, we have concrete floors at home and just dropping the remote from the couch to the floor its enough to smash them....
I do use the remote app on my phone or Apple Watch most of the time as my kids have usually lost or hidden the remote.
haha..oh no...
I hope not.. Watch the space of Apple remote drop tests with the only difference, we KNOW this will be a bust. All of them would break.
3rd generation Apple TV's, well they are old and no longer get the latest apps.
If you had a 4th generation (HD only) , or Apple TV 4K you wouldn't be complaining as all the apps are kept up to date. If using recent TV's this also would have been a non-issue too. They have the apps.
Thank you! I have been so disappointed with the reports, especially the last one. But people on here alway contradicted when I posted a negative review on it. You are dead right, it was form over anything else. It's like, let's design something that looks nice, but not actually test if it works!
I always thought Apple really should have made their own controller. They could have made so HUGE REVENUE. If only they knew how to make the next amazing controller.
That's already there. Use the TV app where it brings all apps together so you can look at content rather than apps. Or use search which goes across apps. The down side is it only works with apps that opt in to this. It seems all but Netflix have.
Most everything else you want is up to the app/service provider and not apple.
There are indications that a new remote might have buttons instead of the swipe pad. iOS 14 gives you the option to change the TV app to push button arrows instead of swiping. Works well.
A phone is something you look at. But I shouldn’t have to look at my remote. It needs tactile buttons. A phone doesn’t.That's sounds awfully familiar. Remember the people that used to complain when the iPhone first launched.
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I could definitely see how some might find it it a bit intimidating and maybe even unintuitive at first. I certainly felt this way coming from Windows to macOS ten years ago.
And yes, some of those complaining here maybe just don't like it and never will. Though I think there's a fair amount, if we're being honest, that simply haven't taken the time to learn it, and decided it just wasn't what they were used to.
My folks didn't like it either (in their 70's), but after spending 20 minutes showing them everything it can do, they now love it.
To me it feels faster and more fun to navigate my TV and Home with. It's also so convenient to say "Movies" and the lights dim and makes everything cozy.
Realityck notes: (snip) "You can buy a ultra expensive Kaleidoscope system if you want download movies for 20 - 40 mins with 200+ Mbps connection with wanting 100 Mbps bit rate content from a large downloaded digital file." (snip)
Being able to accomplish that without shelling out for Kaleidoscope seems like the kind of feature that ATV 5 should offer to justify it's cost vs a ROKU stick. I know people want ATV 5 ASAP, but, IMHO, the crucial metric is capabilities beyond what the current ATV 4 or its competitors provide.
Don't know what the availability/cost metric is for HDMI 2.1 chipsets, but I'd consider an ATV 5 without HDMI 2.1 as a fail - especially if they want to keep the price point in the $150-200 range.
Being able to accomplish that without shelling out for Kaleidoscope seems like the kind of feature that ATV 5 should offer to justify it's cost vs a ROKU stick. I know people want ATV 5 ASAP, but, IMHO, the crucial metric is capabilities beyond what the current ATV 4 or its competitors provide.
Don't know what the availability/cost metric is for HDMI 2.1 chipsets, but I'd consider an ATV 5 without HDMI 2.1 as a fail - especially if they want to keep the price point in the $150-200 range.