Also, provide the capability of presenting media at 24fps to preserve the film look as opposed to the "video" look of 4k.
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It's 2009 Again: Apple is Apparently Reconsidering Making a TV
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Still using my 55 Panasonic Plasma! It's 14 years old, and I don't know how to replace it.
Yes to all of this! my 55" Panasonic Plasma 2010 is still going strong!
Late to the party here, but this would be an insta-buy from me as well. I don't care about gaming, I just want a fairly nice TV that isn't watching me back that doesn't have a garbage OS. I have a 55" Samsung frame TV, which I bought for its minimalism, but the picture is splotchy garbage and the OS is straight-up creepy. I was watching TV late one night, and heard this intermittent chirping. I searched Google and found out it was tracking user positioning in front of the TV using an ultrasonic sensor (so they could tell advertisers if you were actually watching the ads -- go to the Legal & Privacy section to turn it off.) I have a Samsung sound bar, which frequently stops working and requires me to unplug the TV and plug it back in for it to start working again... The smart things app is janky as hell... I had to hack it to work with HomeKit (which is why I can't just "unplug from the internet"). Sigh I could go on and on.
🙏 Please Apple, make a TV! You can even neglect it like your HomePods and Studio Display and update it every five years and make it cost $1,000 more than the competition and inexplicably leave out support for common standards like HDR10+ and have zero HDMI inputs because Apple. I only buy these things once every decade or so anyway, so I can fall asleep watching TNG. I have a projector for Kino and thankfully, it's dumb as a brick.
🙏 Please Apple, make a TV! You can even neglect it like your HomePods and Studio Display and update it every five years and make it cost $1,000 more than the competition and inexplicably leave out support for common standards like HDR10+ and have zero HDMI inputs because Apple. I only buy these things once every decade or so anyway, so I can fall asleep watching TNG. I have a projector for Kino and thankfully, it's dumb as a brick.
I wish they would, make luxury TVs. Samsung TVs may look good but Samsung service is terrible and the TVs break often, especially certain models. Apple may one day make TVs I can't afford, they may even use Samsung panels in them, but the TV itself will probably look great and will break less often, and Apple repair will be easier to deal with even if they do break early. And if Apple made their own TVs they could develop a wireless video technology that is high bitrate and low latency, and put those same special chips into their devices and in the Apple TV box.
Apple can’t update their displays in a timely manner, panel technology changes quickly and tv prices aren’t very high.
Today's TVs are very advanced from just a few years ago. Since Apple doesn't fab their own panels and complete at all in the display marketplace rumors like this are very shaky to start with. Look at Mark Gruman's text that is the basis of this thread.
Notice Mark used the word "may", so this isn't even a rumor really it's just Gruman talking up a vague possibility of such.
It would be another Airpods Max. High price, lack of comparable features, and not updated for years.
It’s got nothing to do with getting what you pay for. If you don’t need the tv’s OS, because you are plugging in an Apple TV or Firestick… then why should you have to “pay more” to “get what you pay for”, if you do not even need it to begin with.
Ridiculous rumours, seriously, they charge £1500 and up for a LCD monitor, don’t care if its well built has good speakers and a crappy (according to some) camera, and it may very well have a good image, it’s still an LCD monitor, no Mini LED (that’s £5000 and up) and no OLED.
Apple would seriously need to reconsider its pricing to compete in the TV market these days, no one buys TVs costing thousands and thousands and they wait for them to drop in price when next years models come out anyway. It’s one competitive market.
Apple would seriously need to reconsider its pricing to compete in the TV market these days, no one buys TVs costing thousands and thousands and they wait for them to drop in price when next years models come out anyway. It’s one competitive market.
Cheaper sets have awful software. My LG has WebOS yet it fires right up without hesitation. I also didn’t pick it up on a black Friday sale. So yeah you get what you pay for with TVs and the cheaper they are the worse they perform and the more sluggish their software always is.
Impossible.
Every Apple phone/tablet/computer comes with advertisements pushing you to subscribe to Apple's services nowadays.
Let alone the Apple TV - which is possibly the most obnoxious about it.
It always could.
Even the ones that had only 1 Ethernet/WAN port (as a wireless router).
I'd like to see it, even if it's an expensive niche. I'd like to see what kind of thought they put into differentiating theirs, what they automate and make better, and perhaps as importantly how that trickles into the rest of the industry that would set forth to copy them
I'd expect at minimum it would have a bunch of mics and color sensors to always have optimal picture and sound, and just better integrate than a set top box ever can
I'd expect at minimum it would have a bunch of mics and color sensors to always have optimal picture and sound, and just better integrate than a set top box ever can
The primary problem with "TV" isn’t the software and hardware integration. It is the software to software (apps) integration and Apple has very limited success in improving that because that is so dependent on the content providers. None of that can/could be improved by controlling the hardware and the software in the TV itself. What made the iPod a success wasn't the hardware and software integration IMO, it was the deals Apple was able to make with all the Music houses brining everything together. Sorry, but that isn't happening with TV/Movie etc.
And that is just one of the issues. TVs are a commodity item with extremely low margins. Also the life cycle of TVs is much longer than other product categories Apple has entered (around 6-7 years). Anyway if Apple could solve the primary problem, they could do it in a set top box first.
Great news! You can wake up now.
In fact, you never needed to go to sleep in the first place.
👉 There are lots of "digital signage" displays that do just what you want.
It's just that they're likely not found in the TV aisle in your local (consumer) electronics store.
And not necessarily at the same price point as consumer TVs.
A dumb TV would cost more because you are the product, not the customer with a smart TV.
Even in 1984, Orwell never dreamed we’d pay for our own spy screens.
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The article doesn’t mention it’s 65’’. What I meant is that my only interest would be if if it lets you workaround the price of the Studio Display, which of course is not going to happen. Other than that, my interest in it would be the same I have in the Vision Pro and the Apple Watch.
Nailed it. Couple this with apples track record with displays and it’s an utter fairytale to think they’d make a TV or get any traction in the market.
All that said, they were dumb enough to spend 10s of billions and a decade on a car project so I suppose anything is possible with Tim at the wheel
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