I'll get a picture from my last selected input right away, but if I want to interact with it (change channels, inputs, etc...), I have to wait. Maybe I need an LG!
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It's 2009 Again: Apple is Apparently Reconsidering Making a TV
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I'll get a picture from my last selected input right away, but if I want to interact with it (change channels, inputs, etc...), I have to wait. Maybe I need an LG!
Which can only mean always-on, zero controls, showing Apple ads 24/7.
“I just had a remarkable idea! Dynamic Island but for your TV!!”
-some C-suite Apple exec, probably
-some C-suite Apple exec, probably
We are still using our Samsung plasma, even though a larger screen would be helpful as our eyes age, not just due to the colors and dark blacks but because every other technology makes my spouse sick from the motion flicker.
(I'm told high end OLED is good in the flicker/blurring respect but I can't afford $4k for one of those)
Look at the bezel of the iMac. You can certainly "design" if you're determined enough.
QDOLED is a game changer in terms of response and color reproduction. Just wait and it’ll come down in price
A notch wouldn’t surprise me. Gotta have that FaceTime integration somehow.
If it has the price of a TV and 220ppi so that you can get a Mac monitor cheaper than the Apple Studio, I applaud it. Otherwise, I pass
Where do I sign up for a $20,000 8K 65” TV featuring a “dumb” version of Siri? I’m in! Tim had me at Hello.
Ooooh- what if they made a TV with a remote that was a slab of glass and used the best of the Apple diving board remote paired with the security chip and re-configurable interface of a Touch Bar! Plus MagSafe for the TV and 10Mb Ethernet as a USB-C dongle. Naturally it would have only one input because you should only connect Apple TV to it for compute. And fingerprints or dust anywhere on the screen voids the warranty
Apparently it is 😕 I’d buy a dumb TV instantly. TV operating systems sucks anyway and companies are selling our data. I’m for the idea of Apple making a TV set but they would never make it right (not enough options in features, panel sizes, etc..) and it would be too expensive. This is too complicated for todays Apple.
Makes about as much sense as them thinking they could ever build a commercially viable automobile. If they did sell a TV it would probably be a $9,995 60hz LCD. Optional stand for $995 with integrated power button. On the bottom 🤦♂️
Man I wish they'd just update the Mac displays rather than messing around with a TV. 60hz desktop monitors are so painful now
Don’t forget the power button on the bottom triggers FaceID before it is allowed to turn on. So you have to stretch to hit the button and be in sight of the dot projector. Because the bottom is on the extreme bottom left edge.
“Our 60hz display performs like a 240hz display from Sony or Samsung”
Ahhh yes the Afghanistan “the graveyard of empires” route. Apple could actually conceivably go out of business trying to get into a loss-leader business like that
It already did end the way the car did before the car did. I’m not sure why we are reviving this ridiculous idea. The Apple TV, as it currently exists, reaches way more people than a stand-alone tv set ever would, and Apple knows this.
People who need every device with an Apple logo on it.
What tech? The only reason to not replace your TV with the Vision Pro is because you wanna watch it with others. If you live alone, it’s the perfect TV.
If it were really 2009 again, then the TV would be a 3D TV with included glasses
My question is: what is Apple going to call it? "Apple TV" is already the name of the streaming box. I guess they could call it "Apple Box", but that's confusing. Oh heck, knowing them, they're going to call it "Apple TV Max" and its defining feature is that it plays Apple TV+ and nothing else.
My question is: what is Apple going to call it? "Apple TV" is already the name of the streaming box. I guess they could call it "Apple Box", but that's confusing. Oh heck, knowing them, they're going to call it "Apple TV Max" and its defining feature is that it plays Apple TV+ and nothing else.
Hear me out- but what if Apple built a TV the likes of which no mortal has ever laid eyes on?! A sleek frame of stainless steel makes this the most substantial and heavy TV produced since the trinitron tube. Each frame is machined over a fortnight to our famous exacting specifications before a Chinese child (required for their tiny dexterous hands) assembles the internals by hand using dragon hairs for each interconnect. Instead of blue smoke, each TV is impregnated with a fart from god-emperor Tim himself, captured after a particularly blistering Auburn defeat during which he had consumed nearly two dozen blazing buffalo wings without any blue cheese dressing (what a hoss)
I used to want this
Now I simply want a great "dumb" TV with continually updated Apple TVs
Now I simply want a great "dumb" TV with continually updated Apple TVs