Yeah. Overall it has great potential, it just needs a few bugs worked out. The biggest one, it won't play downloaded videos. This includes iTunes purchased movies. It'll stream itunes cloud content though.
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Hands-On With the New 'TV' App in the tvOS 10.1 Beta
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Yeah. Overall it has great potential, it just needs a few bugs worked out. The biggest one, it won't play downloaded videos. This includes iTunes purchased movies. It'll stream itunes cloud content though.
It would be cool if you could pull content feeds from Hulu and Netflix and any other video apps from Plex instead. That would make this not needed.
All new Netflix content is 4K. Why would they bother to support legacy hardware like ATV4?
Plex is not the be-all and end-all. When the TV app has Plex, Amazon and Netflix capability then it's useful for me.
The app already served it's purpose which was to take up time at the keynote.
They still haven't added HBOGo, even though they now have both showtime apps added. I am wondering if that is an oversight for now.
As most of our TV viewing is via Netflix and BBC iPlayer. This doesn't look like the TV App will be used very much in the household. Pity, good idea
Hopefully this issue will be addressed.
Hopefully this issue will be addressed.
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i shouldn't have to use 3rd party software to access content on my apple devices. No longer can access on Apple TV, iPhone or iPad
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i used to be able to access all my videos stored in iTunes, no longer have access
That's the first thought I had when I saw the TV app icon. My guess is that they intended to have the TV app in the original ATV4 release.
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Someone give me a reason to use this app if I cancel my Hulu and Netflix and go with just Directvnow or Vue? I mean I know it integrates your iTunes purchases here. But if I have Vue, and it has its own guide. Plus DVR functionality. I wouldn't need this. Why would I go to the Tv app to select designated survivor for example, just for it to send me to the Vue app? Seems like it would be one extra step for me.
On your AppleTV? It's under iTunes movies app or the TV app under library
This implementation sucks so much.
This should have been integrated into an up swipe from bottom of a playing video instead. That way it's always there and doesn't require you to dive into an app to then go to the app you wanted in the first place? I literally can't see how this is better. I go to something like BBC iplayer because i want to see what is out now not to finish watching something!!! I mean duh! I assume it shows upcoming shows i'm watching, however this too is pointless if a new season is starting or something is a category of things like nature programs? It's still better to go to the app for that.
I wish apple had made the TV app learn what you like based on what you watch then just suggest it at the end of a video or swipe up on a video to get similar TV from the content you pay for/is available free. Even youtube does this better right now.
This should have been integrated into an up swipe from bottom of a playing video instead. That way it's always there and doesn't require you to dive into an app to then go to the app you wanted in the first place? I literally can't see how this is better. I go to something like BBC iplayer because i want to see what is out now not to finish watching something!!! I mean duh! I assume it shows upcoming shows i'm watching, however this too is pointless if a new season is starting or something is a category of things like nature programs? It's still better to go to the app for that.
I wish apple had made the TV app learn what you like based on what you watch then just suggest it at the end of a video or swipe up on a video to get similar TV from the content you pay for/is available free. Even youtube does this better right now.
Been playing around with the app on my iPhone the past days and it does let you go through all available content you can watch from the apps you have and see related/puplar shows/movies and so on.
So it is all gathered in one place and I can only imagine it will be improved woth suggestions and such in the future.
Lots of assumptions in the this post.
Besides, how would more TVs and Apple TVs solve the problem? My account is still going to be the one logged in to each of them (as it is right now with my three Apple TVs), so regardless of who is using which TV, it's going to think I'm the one using it and send notifications to my phone.
Or are you telling me I should have two 65" TVs in my living room so that I can have one and my wife can have her own?
Lots of assumptions in the this post.
Besides, how would more TVs and Apple TVs solve the problem? My account is still going to be the one logged in to each of them (as it is right now with my three Apple TVs), so regardless of who is using which TV, it's going to think I'm the one using it and send notifications to my phone.
Or are you telling me I should have two 65" TVs in my living room so that I can have one and my wife can have her own?
Compadre, im saying u should have two living rooms, one 4 u and other 4 ur female. Yours needs a 70" tv and the wife can be 65" or less depending on what kind of gurl u have know what i mean? Problem solved. Respect