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Five New Features Coming in tvOS 18 This Fall

Would love apple to allow game streaming from Xbox and PSN. Although PSN probably limit you to one device....
 
My # complaint is that it's often hard to tell what icon or app you've currently selected, since there's no mouse arrow or touchscreen to provide feedback. If you look away for a second it's not clear where you left off. They should use a slight pulsing animation of the currently-selected icon to indicate what will be activated. This should be system-wide, consistent within apps.
 
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Remy149 said:
It’s designed to use either your tv speakers or HomePods not both together
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If that was the idea, then why would it support streaming to multiple speakers in the first place? I thought the while idea is that you can use Airplay to sync across multiple speakers.

Plus, it used to work just fine. I have the original HomePods, and like I said, had no issues until perhaps 1 year ago or so.
 
scottrichardson said:
Am one of the fortunate and grateful folk who does have a fairly decent home theatre and a projector, with an anamorphic lens and a 2.35:1 ratio screen. Whenever I engage my lens and run in anamorphic mode, the Apple TV interface's top and bottom are cropped off my screen.

So having this new mode will actually be handy for the times when I leave my projector/lens in the 2.35:1 setup, which is probably 75% of the time. It's only some TV shows that are still in 16:9 and most new shows that I watch are using the anamorphic format these days.

Actually - on that note - I wonder how long it will be before the 'standard' ratio for TVs becomes 2.35:1 instead of 16:9, given the fact that MOST movies and many TV shows are now in that format? Seems like the same situation we were in back when 4:3 TVs were the norm and tons of movies and shows were in 16:9 format. Nobody wants black bars!

It also seems like a hell of a waste of pixels at the moment, when you consider that a large chunk of your display is used for rendering black bars. So you only really get that "4K" horizontal resolution, but your vertical resolution is round 1608 pixels rather than 2160 pixels. (4096 x 1716 pixels) if you want to be speaking DCI/cinema language.
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I have to say this seems like a bit of a faff. Personally I cannot stand the fad (and it is just a copy-cat fad) of TV to make their shows wider than 16:9. I just cannot see the point of it.

I have a 120 inch 16:9 projector screen myself, just not practical to have anything wider.
 
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tvOS is a joke now. Apple has managed to take a wonderful interface and clog it up so badly that it's just no fun browing for content any more. Unless you know exactly what you want to watch, tvOS is useless. It't just a bunch of "Top Ten" lists.

And even when you are browsing Apple hides many titles. They just won't show up unless you do an explicit search.
 
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d5aqoëp said:
That's lossy ATMOS unfortunately. I used the movie called Ready Player One BlueRay for reference. I also sourced a same copy with lossy ATMOS. The original blueray with lossless ATMOS sounds more dynamic and I can feel my speakers and Denon Receiver really working at their best to produce Crisp Treble and Tight bass. With lossy ATMOS, the sound does feel compressed with harsh treble and flabby bass. You will know when you do side by side comparison on a good Speaker system.
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But then it isn't bitsteam they want, it's support for Dolby TrueHD. Bitsteam just means "let the receiver do the decoding".
 
Duncan-UK said:
I have to say this seems like a bit of a faff. Personally I cannot stand the fad (and it is just a copy-cat fad) of TV to make their shows wider than 16:9. I just cannot see the point of it.

I have a 120 inch 16:9 projector screen myself, just not practical to have anything wider.
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I guess the point would be to remove the black bars, since that's a lot of pixels/light/power being used for practically nothing. From a cinematography perspective, a wider canvas does allow for a more impactful layout and composition, but that's my personal opinion (shared by a lot of creatives).
 
I wish these companies would allow mult-view from an app perspective. As a Sports fan, I would love to crank up ESPN+, Youtube TV, Peacock, and MLB.TV at the same time on a Sunday and utilize all the screen space my 62 inch TV allows. It also helps when all these sports companies are making you get all the streaming services and the idea of channel surfing has gone bye bye. The costs are bad, yes, but I miss the idea of just flipping back and forth between games and having that be a pretty easy experience. With Apple TV, I never really understood putting apps in the background when you would need to reopen and go to live anyway. Just seemed like a hassle.
 
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sjsharksfan12 said:
I wish these companies would allow mult-view from an app perspective. As a Sports fan, I would love to crank up ESPN+, Youtube TV, Peacock, and MLB.TV at the same time on a Sunday and utilize all the screen space my 62 inch TV allows. It also helps when all these sports companies are making you get all the streaming services and the idea of channel surfing has gone bye bye. The costs are bad, yes, but I miss the idea of just flipping back and forth between games and having that be a pretty easy experience. With Apple TV, I never really understood putting apps in the background when you would need to reopen and go to live anyway. Just seemed like a hassle.
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Fubo has this and it works great when watching football when there are a few games on.
 
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