Throw in a mesh network point and updated mesh AirPort system to a 802.11ax wifi 6 mesh network and convergence becomes very compelling.
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Throw in a mesh network point and updated mesh AirPort system to a 802.11ax wifi 6 mesh network and convergence becomes very compelling.
Not as pathetic as if they used it to introduce a Tile competitor.
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“Pro”? What are you talking about?
Soundbar is inherently a ****** shape for a loudspeaker - long and flat. So the woofer are small and the tweeter too. And both too close to your TV so already interfering with the sound.
Ultimately what you want is 2-3 speakers facing you, for decent sound. In other words, we need to see the price point of homepod come down and ability to create left, right and reserve the centre for dialogue. Not to make yet another crappy soundbar.
Siri is not available on the Apple TV in New Zealand. Siri is available on every other compatible device, just not the apple TV.
So no, I am not buying anything deeper into the Apple ecosystem, in fact I am slowly leaving. I have a Kodi box for our 3rd TV, I have a RaspberryPi as my learn linux machine, and my next phone will be Android or a feature phone.
I simply can no longer afford Apple, especially when you pay a premium price and not get premium products (features disabled).
Had Macs since the 512KE, its Hackintosh or linux for me next
So no, I am not buying anything deeper into the Apple ecosystem, in fact I am slowly leaving. I have a Kodi box for our 3rd TV, I have a RaspberryPi as my learn linux machine, and my next phone will be Android or a feature phone.
I simply can no longer afford Apple, especially when you pay a premium price and not get premium products (features disabled).
Had Macs since the 512KE, its Hackintosh or linux for me next
Clearly people want cheaper devices than the ATV why its market share is absolutely feeble.
Most people use these devices to stream Netflix and Prime etc. A device at the price of an Apple TV is huge overkill for that. It isn't "Pro level performance" either as it doesn't even support 4K streaming on the worlds biggest video streaming platform which is frankly a little bit absurd. You can do that on a $40 Fire TV.
Once iTunes purchases are accessible on Roku, Fire TV and various smart TV platforms the use case for these ATV boxes is going to be next to non existent for most people.
Apple seems to be clinging to the idea that it is going to be some kind of gaming machine. At a similar price to an Xbox One S I just don't see it.
I didn't realize this for a long time myself, so in case you didn't know... Instead of doing a swipe gesture on the remote to navigate, you can just single tap the direction you want to move - like a D-pad - and it will navigate that way as well.
Only the most masochistic try to play minecraft using the tv remote.
And why were most stuck being a masochist with a Siri remote? Because Apple required you to buy specialized controllers. Until tvOS 13, you couldn't use one of the many Sony or Microsoft controllers you already had sitting around the house. If they had supported mainstream controllers day one, perhaps they wouldn't need Arcade as a defibrillator for the mostly-dead gaming platform.
I think it wasn't so much that Apple wanted you to buy specialised controllers (they didn't offer their own 1st party option anyways), but that they wanted to ensure that users were capable of playing games without one. Problem is - it's almost impossible to design a proper game that makes full use of a game controller and make it playable via the tv remote, and you can only play crossy road on the big screen so many times before it loses its appeal.
MR 2010 - we want slimmer stuff
MR 2015 - stop making slimmer stuff
MR 2019 - we want slimmer stuff
Jeez folks!
What’s wrong with the remote? The Apple TV remotes is well suited for its application.
If it’s $49 or less, I’ll consider it. Apple needs to sell these at cost. It’s the best way to get people to buy your content.
The Apple TV I have now has has trouble mirroring my iPad. It works about half the time. For some reason, updates don’t work.
The Apple TV I have now has has trouble mirroring my iPad. It works about half the time. For some reason, updates don’t work.
This would be a great boon in my setup. Barring one unacceptable solution* none of my devices (XB1X, PS4 Pro, Firestick 4K) can play lossless audio via Plex without transcoding them into AAC, which renders the lossless audio pointless.
*The Kodi Plex plugin on X1X can play TrueHD but cannot out video in HDR. Hence "unacceptable."
I've already seen a preview of the new Apple glasses:
Geordi's cabin air filter seems a little dirty and due for a replacement. You just can't handle those things after you've been manipulating the warp core.
Let's hope this device can stream HLG. There are going to be a lot of thursday night NFL games and the ALCS that will be broadcasting 4K HLG via the Fox sports App. There have a been a couple college games already via Fox Sports in 4K HLG, that were all messed up because the ATV4K can not do HLG. It does not properly convert it to SDR.
I totally disagree with you. Who buys iTunes films? The majority are Apple customers - they love the experience of watching a film on their iPad, iPhone, Mac and then their Apple TV 4K which works in the same way as all of their Apple products. When the majority of iTunes films customers are in the quite frankly, incredible Apple ecosystem, why wold they buy a cheap Amazon TV or Roku box? It just does not make sense. Why would you buy a cheaply made with a not so nice user experience?
Also YouTube will be moving to AV1 instead of VP9 next year which means in time, Apple TV will support 4K YouTube playback. Whether right now that's important, I don't know. My ATV 4K makes a great job of upscaling 1080p YouTube.
I sincerely do not buy into that a person who buys a £40 Amazon stick is the person who buys iTunes films. Chances are they are Amazon Prime customers.
Very much so. In my house it is the only thing connected to the TV in the living room, meaning 100% of the wife and kids' TV watching is done via Apple TV. At $100-$200, its a drop in the bucket compared to the beating that device gets month after month, year after year.
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The cheap sticks' life is limited and will be gone soon. TV's themselves take a long time to turn over in people's lives, but as they do they are being replaced with Smart TV's that are at least as capable as any of the cheap throwaway TV sticks like Fire or Roku. You simply don't need one of those junk sticks if you buy a new TV.
It is only the slightly more premium connected boxes like Apple TV and various gaming consoles that still have a future because they will always offer much more than the TV itself.
Different color power cords and make the buttons of the remote even more difficult to find without looking
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In such a case you need to connect it to a Mac via USB and iTunes will finish installing the update
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In such a case you need to connect it to a Mac via USB and iTunes will finish installing the update
I'd love to see support for OTA and DVR (either through onboard drive or external Lightning drive). Create a solution that can be used by all three types of cord cutters (Live Streamers, On-Demand Streamers, and Over-The-Air). We currently have Spectrum (some TV's are using a ROKU device, some are using Spectrum Cable Receiver). I tried an experiment one night to compare watching "Fox News Channels - The Five" using the FNC App on the ROKU vs using a season pass on the cable receiver). Using the cable receiver and a season pass, I can watch/pause the show at any time after the broadcast has started. Using the Roku App (and I'm guessing the AppleTV app would be the same), I could watch the show live, but I could not pause it. If I did miss it live, I couldn't stream it (where pausing only seems to work on certain apps) until the next day. I'd like to have the ability to DVR that live stream and pause it later. Of course another solution would be for these apps to post new content faster. If "The Five" is done by 6:00pm, why can't they make that content available at 6:00pm? Or better yet, allow people to start streaming it immediately at 5:00pm. And if I want to watch my local channels through my HDTV antenna, allow me to DVR that on the same box I'm watching everything else. If Steve Jobs was still alive, we'd already have a solution to tie all cord cutters together.