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Five New Features Coming in tvOS 18 This Fall
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I still don't get this. As someone who connects the homepod to the Apple TV, it seems like having a Home App would be necessary. I also wish Apple TV would have it's own browser, and maybe a last.fm app to incorporate my Apple Music with. I know they don't want to do more stuff with Android, but as a streamer box, Apple has to know that people who have Android phones probably also have Apple TVs.
Apple TV can be so much more and I feel like Apple neglects it.
What tvOS actually needs:
- Proper user support and parental controls to keep kids away from inappropriate content
- Netflix integration into Watch Next
- A live TV interface with global partners
- Proper user support and parental controls to keep kids away from inappropriate content
- Netflix integration into Watch Next
- A live TV interface with global partners
Per a talk in the developers conference, support for HDR images should be in tvOS 18 at some point.
I just tried an HDR image now and it doesn't appear HDR so it might be a while yet, or the formats they actually support right now are not the ones I tried.
I just tried an HDR image now and it doesn't appear HDR so it might be a while yet, or the formats they actually support right now are not the ones I tried.
The last time I looked at Apple TV I didn’t think it supported Amazon Prime, Netflix, PBS Passport, and Plex in 4k. Does it do that now? I just got Roku Ultra after the cheapo Roku quit doing Plex playback correctly. $75 without issue. And super fast. Nice simple remote. What does Apple TV do that Roku doesn’t with my simple needs?
I would like to ditch my Android media player pretty badly. And Apple could hook me into their ecosystem so easily.
If only bitstream audio.
If only bitstream audio.
Sounds like you haven’t looked at Apple TV in like 7 years. Many of those apps had 4k when the Apple TV 4K launched in 2017 especially Netflix.
What am I missing? I have it set for passthrough and I see the Atmos indicator come up all the time?
Not unless Apple Intelligence can send an avatar back in time to the set to shout "Oi! Nolan! NO!!! Just because everybody on the set already knows the script backwards doesn't mean that your audience does! Tell your actors to stop mumbling, and, while your at it, stop sending your sound engineer out to get you coffee - they're as important as the camera guys!"
Unless, maybe, Siri could grab the subtitles and read them out aloud? Hmm. I should patent that
Meanwhile - if we're doomed to a future where (a) we all need to enable the "subtitles for people with perfectly adequate hearing but who just can't interpret 'mumble mumble whisper garble sob'" and (b) even shows made for widescreen TV leave back top/bottom bars on your widescreen TV - can we have an update that always displays the subtitles on the black bar? Filtering out subs like "[sesquipedalian ocarina music plays]" would be nice, too...
Netflix only support 4k on their premium subscriptions. (Not Apple's fault, of course).
What does ‘appear intelligently’ mean?
What does ‘movie is rewound‘ mean?
How are those a bonus to the other changes?
this ... and perhaps a USB port for external storage on the next Apple TV box
just installed some games on Retroarch ... wondering when the files get deleted
Missed the info, do these special features work with the HD Apple TV or does it have to be the 4K one? We have not upgraded to the 4K because we have a 1080 P TV which has 3-D. Personally I have been a fan of 3-D and I don’t want to upgrade to a TV that doesn’t have it. so we have just kept the HD Apple TV, which still works.
Many films are wider than 16:9, so movie buffs might have a wider projector or put an anamorphic projection lens on.
