Maybe but I have this feeling if it was 9to5Mac or someone else would've had rumors about it or we would've seen screen shots. Maybe they managed to keep this a secret but I doubt it.
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No New Apple TV Coming Next Week, But Apple Will Upgrade Software
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Maybe but I have this feeling if it was 9to5Mac or someone else would've had rumors about it or we would've seen screen shots. Maybe they managed to keep this a secret but I doubt it.
Not a single thing on your list would affect ATV performance whatsoever.
- A6/A7 would allow you to...move your selector faster?
- gigabit ethernet / 802.11ac would improve...nothing. Your broadband internet is the bottle neck (at roughly 5-50 Mbps)
- more flash storage would...let you buffer more video in case your internet suddenly dies?
- usb 3.0 would let you...do nothing that AirPlay can't already do.
Air Video Server HD. Converts the sound to AAC on the fly, leaves the video untouched.
All I want is reliable music streaming from my mac
Stopped working a few updates ago... looking at the support forums, I am not the only one
Stopped working a few updates ago... looking at the support forums, I am not the only one
Note he said "SSD for new App Store", I think his implication is the AppleTV would become more of an iOS-like device, with full fledged apps, games, would need local storage for those, faster processor (SOC) for rendering graphics, etc.
Certainly as a audio/video streamer, that's not needed.
Roku Rocks
I like my Roku and although I'd get an Apple TV in a hot second, it will have to beat Roku by a mile not just with some software update. Roku updates often and right now, they have just what I want so Apple needs to make something worthwhile that will make me trash my Roku. Hope it is real soon
I like my Roku and although I'd get an Apple TV in a hot second, it will have to beat Roku by a mile not just with some software update. Roku updates often and right now, they have just what I want so Apple needs to make something worthwhile that will make me trash my Roku. Hope it is real soon
I agree. If we do see a UI update it will probably work the same, but it'll just look like iOS 7.
It's software, it's far easier to keep under wraps than hardware. There weren't any rumors (I don't think) for the previous Apple TV UI update.
Go into the parental controls and you can hide any of the channels/apps.
Hoping we see an Airplay Direct (use similar tech to airdrop possibly, and the obvious NAS support. Plus an iOS 7 UI. An App Store would be nice, but I just don't know if we'll ever see one at this point..
Two tvs here and two Apple TVs - one jail broken. Enjoy them all the time especially the airplay.
I hope you're right, and not just because I personally think the current interface is ugly, but it doesn't go with iOS 7 or the new iCloud site. It would feel way more out of place than OS X.
Not on features or hardware capabilities. The Roku competes on content. That's where Apple needs to up its game.
No new hardware needed, unless Apple's bringing out some new feature which requires said hardware (but I haven't heard any rumors indicating anything like that).
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Absolutely. AppleTV needs to burst the cell walls of all those little apps.
Imagine being able to search for something and find the four services where you can see it (the ones you subscribe to, followed by those you can pay one-time rental/buy fees on), linking directly into that service to watch said program with no middle steps.
Imagine being able to see "what's popular" amongst all the content services you subscribe to, on a regional level (ie, I probably don't care what is popular in Japan, but I do care about what people in Northern California are watching).
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Tip I learned recently on another ATV board here: go into parental controls, and disable any of the icons you don't want to see on the screen anymore.
Total Roku sales: 5 million units
Total AppleTV sales: 10 million units.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/10/ro...-u-s-has-streamed-8b-videos-and-music-tracks/
As someone who owns both, the Roku excels in just about every possible way. The only thing the AppleTV is better at is YouTube simply because the Roku doesn't have a YouTube channel.
If the AppleTV had an app store, it would level the playing field. Time will tell.
Returned my roku 3 as soon as I plugged it in. Not only is the Netflix interface bad but the picture quality is as well. Side by side with my atv3 is miles apart.
You're wrong about gigabit and AC. It has nothing to do with internet speed, it has to do with streaming local content. When I stream HD from my phone to my apple tv there is a lot of buffer time, AC and gigabit ethernet would resolve it.
There are a lot of people online that keep calling wireless AC useless because your internet can't saturate it. It's not just about your broadband, it's about streaming super high quality local content without any hiccups.
Finally wireless G is 54mbps right? Not many people have 54mbps in their homes, well thats because reality never reaches spec, have a higher max speed will allow real speed be faster and more reliable.
Decompressing video would definitely be faster with the A6/A7 chip.
Any device using 802.11ac would AirPlay a lot faster over 802.11ac.
More flash would definitely allow better buffering or local storage of purchased movies.
Agreed
More sales doesn't mean it's better, look at Android.
That's Netflix's problem, they wrote their software for the Roku. Also, Netflix has a crappy content selection to begin with.
Get a Roku
The shipments supposedly are Apple set top boxes, not Apple TV, so of course All Things D can say no new Apple TV, in fact safe for anyone to say that, Why?
Because it may be an entirely new product and not an Apple TV at all.
If apple is to make a full sized "real TV" later next year, they would call it Apple TV most likely, so the old Apple TV will be retired. BUT they would almost certainly have a new "set top box" called something entirely new to replace the Apple TV as we know it and get out of the hobby and into something real that may work with cable companies like Time Warner as they talked about.
So are we safe to assume the 3 shipments were old hardware of Apple TV? or is this an entirely new product with apps, maybe a gaming controller etc... or is this just a cover for say a watch, which is of course highly unlikely but is interesting because of the weight of the shipments, if it was a watch it could be up to a million, enough for an initial launch.
Clearly if it was not a complete fake, this Apple "set top box" is something they have cooking..
Because it may be an entirely new product and not an Apple TV at all.
If apple is to make a full sized "real TV" later next year, they would call it Apple TV most likely, so the old Apple TV will be retired. BUT they would almost certainly have a new "set top box" called something entirely new to replace the Apple TV as we know it and get out of the hobby and into something real that may work with cable companies like Time Warner as they talked about.
So are we safe to assume the 3 shipments were old hardware of Apple TV? or is this an entirely new product with apps, maybe a gaming controller etc... or is this just a cover for say a watch, which is of course highly unlikely but is interesting because of the weight of the shipments, if it was a watch it could be up to a million, enough for an initial launch.
Clearly if it was not a complete fake, this Apple "set top box" is something they have cooking..
Since you have both, I have neither, please tell me...well...roomies just got a Roku, which has lots of channels, but, the quality of some of the stuff on there is like watching old 240 or 360p youtube vids, this looks worse on HDTV.
So, my question is, does the Apple TV have higher quality video on the channels it does have?