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BBC iPlayer and Siri for Apple Music Coming to New Apple TV in Months Ahead
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Apple has stated that devs will get another update that will bring the dev kits to parity with the consumer atv's. They just won't say when. I think it's safe to say sometime today or first thing tomorrow it will happen. Reviewer devices do have the app store available, otherwise they wouldn't be able to review the apps that all of them have been referring to in their articles.
Sorry, I'm not a Sky subscriber so I use Now TV with vouchers without committing to signing up so can't answer that. It seems to have the latest programs though and you can watch live programs from some Sky channels but I'm not sure if all the channels are available.
I find the quality of it WAY below Netflix. The actual bitrate I mean, not the quality of the content. The picture looks terrible. Netflix looks great on the same TV.
An Amazon Prime TV (Or whatever they call it nowadays) app would be the best thing, and stop me having to stream Mr Robot from my phone over Airplay to the TV.
I use a Now TV box on my main telly and the picture is really good through it. Still no Dolby Digital yet even though it has been promised to to be on the way.
Yes this is what I was going to respond with. The quality of the picture when watching the football last season was below SD quality with constant buffering and pixelation.
We have Virgin, so if anything was of interested it would be the HBO stuff on Sky Atlantic - i.e. the stuff they seem keenest to keep as Sky exclusives. Might be worth another look though - if nothing else could maybe binge on all the Mad Men after it went to Sky.
It's always been Apple's "MO". Start small and build. Such as the original iPhone without 3G or App Store, later to the 4G/LTE game than others. Strict rules on APIs (like multitasking, 3rd party keyboards) then loosen up as time progresses.
There are of course many reasons for this, and it has worked well for them.
It's quite well known too, a nice article about it: http://www.macworld.com/article/1151235/apple_rolls.html
The opposite would be something like Samsung's approach, where you get many features early (often IMO poorly implemented, and we often see them cut down later, e.g. Air View now gone from the S6 (along with expandable storage, removable batteries, waterproof body).
No right or wrong, just different.
Good article.
Its true though - if you look at every new iPod or iPhone they are met with the laziest of cliches: 'evolution, nor revolution'.
Firstly, why is that a surprise anyway - do people really expect each new version of a phone to be some sort of revolution.
Secondly, you only have to look at the current iPod / iPhones compare to the originals - worlds apart, so somewhere along the line things have improved dramatically, even if its less noticeable from year to year.
I disagree. Aside from the (admittedly, very annoying) habit of splicing repetitive ads into the middle of on-demand content, it's one of the best streaming platforms on the UK market. Particularly in terms of the quality of content relative to the price. Only iPlayer does it better, in my experience.
Note: the bitrate of Now TV's streams seems to vary depending on what device your using it on. Apple devices and LG TVs get the best quality streams, but some others do not. It does indeed look really crap on a Mac/PC.
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I used an Apple TV to watch a football match last season and the quality was terrible - constant buffering, lower than SD quality and pixelation throughout as I mentioned before. And this is with a 152mb BB connection.
May I heartily agree with the "at long, bloody last!" sentiments.
I get really crappy reception on my digital tv (via aerial) and being able to AirPlay BBC iPlayer to my tv has been a godsend.
I'm hoping that the BBC will be able to create some kind of subscription service to anyone outside the UK. A nice stream of revenue hopefully. But I'm presuming that this will probably require a nod from the Government.
"I'd gladly sell my house and all my belongings to help the BBC" - 'Not the Nine O'Clock News', back in the day....
I get really crappy reception on my digital tv (via aerial) and being able to AirPlay BBC iPlayer to my tv has been a godsend.
I'm hoping that the BBC will be able to create some kind of subscription service to anyone outside the UK. A nice stream of revenue hopefully. But I'm presuming that this will probably require a nod from the Government.
"I'd gladly sell my house and all my belongings to help the BBC" - 'Not the Nine O'Clock News', back in the day....
Amazon Prime video is one app we probably won't see on Apple TV, given that Amazon have so far refused to release it for Chromecast, and that Amazon have recently stopped selling both Chromecast and Apple TV.
iPlayer has been available on both iPad and Roku for a long time. Along with pretty much every other device you could imagine.
Maybe it isn't as good for live sport. For on-demand programming it is very good, though. I watched the whole last season of Game of Thrones on it. Nice HD quality and never a glitch.
"how UK audiences watch programmes online,......"
Any as usual, the USA will get the crap "BBC america" mix of sitcoms and reality TV rather than great things like BBC 3 and BBC 4.
I would pay to get true BBC channels here in the USA
Any as usual, the USA will get the crap "BBC america" mix of sitcoms and reality TV rather than great things like BBC 3 and BBC 4.
I would pay to get true BBC channels here in the USA
"No plans" = "nothing to announce today".
They haven't. The legal negotiations around this have been happening for years.
The technical work involved with a new streaming platform is virtually nothing and never was an issue. It's about the rights and legal issues involved, as it always is.
Right, since Siri is not required for Apple Music to work on ATV, yet another reason why ATV3 should get Apple Music.Bloody Hell. Once again we in the US have been left out. Bollocks!
Seriously, I am happy to hear about Apple Music, but scratching my head about why they didn't work to make it available at launch.
Your internet connection is probably most to blame there. However I find Sky's non HD quality rather poor, and they don't provide HD channels to Now TV customers.
I can't see how there are any particular rights or legal issues involved in putting iPlayer on Apple TV. Given it's already available on every other streaming device and every other Apple device out there.