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Rumors Persist of New Apple TV With Stronger Gaming Focus, Updated Remote, and Faster Chip Next Year
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I think it would helpful if a new revision of Apple TV had an analog/digital audio output jack similar to the Airport Express. Many people actually uses an Airport Express just to extract the audio.
I use a Bluetooth 5.0 device with jack audio output to hook up with my stereo. Would be great if I could skip that and just connect the Apple TV directly with an audio cable. Working in the world of radio spectrum, it's odd that I prefer the reliability of cables
I use a Bluetooth 5.0 device with jack audio output to hook up with my stereo. Would be great if I could skip that and just connect the Apple TV directly with an audio cable. Working in the world of radio spectrum, it's odd that I prefer the reliability of cables
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It would be nice that they add some standard connections at the back: 3.5 mm jack, optical audio..
And please-button remote
Apple TV Pro version with M1, 128 GB (is sufficient), HDMI 2.1 AND 10GBASE-T Ethernet. PLEASE, Apple, PLEASE!!
Don’ t forget an ARC hdmi port, so you could be able to output sound from other sources to your HomePod(s)
Not gonna happen. If you want to separate a/v you should connect your Apple TV to an AVR first and only from there to the TV (all via HDMI).
I mean is there a market for Apple TV’s nowday‘s? I will upgrade my current 4k Apple TV but new tv’s, gaming consoles all come with the Apple TV App making you not really miss out on the box itself anymore.
Well you can't install apps and games from the Apple Store on third party TVs if that's something you're into. Otherwise there's not much of a need anymore, except maybe the nicer user interface on the Apple TV.
This time around Apple really need to be able to bring in AAA console games at a minimum of PS4 quality. If they can nearly match a PS5 they are laughing. If they don’t do this, I’m seriously beginning to wonder what the strategy is for Apple TV because for just a streaming box, even a good one, how can that compete against in-built services on both modern TV and console devices going forward for the next couple of years?
Agree.
Would also be nice that it would let you to play ANY game on it. Like if you want to play games from Xbox, PS, Nintendo, you can download it and play it on ATV.
Sure that would be amazing. None of the involved parties (neither Apple nor the console makers) will ever agree to this though. An utopian dream.
Oh no, there is! I use my Apple TV 4K for streaming of self created movies from the NAS to the 4K TV. Although really not a cheap TV, it has only Fast Ethernet (100Base-T)! WiFi is no alternative anyway. So I use the Apple TV 4K with it's 1GBit Ethernet and HDMI2.0 which works quite well. But for large own created timelapse movies, more "power" is highly appreciated.
I'd already be happy if Apple allowed game streaming services like Stadia on the TV. But that doesn't seem likely either at the moment.A boy can dream
It's ridiculous that they haven't aimed more directly at the gaming market already.
The Apple TV could be the central 'console', and any phone/tablet could be a bluetooth/local network controller.
(yes - they should include Android phones in this).
Phones can easily use the gyro to steer, or have buttons/dragging for more traditional control.
This would open up a huge area of wii-style casual family gaming without people having to buy loads of controllers.
Game makers would provide a fairly simple view/skin which would then appear in Apple's controller app when you played (so that game makers don't have to re-build and distribute the controller app for each separate game)
The Apple TV could be the central 'console', and any phone/tablet could be a bluetooth/local network controller.
(yes - they should include Android phones in this).
Phones can easily use the gyro to steer, or have buttons/dragging for more traditional control.
This would open up a huge area of wii-style casual family gaming without people having to buy loads of controllers.
Game makers would provide a fairly simple view/skin which would then appear in Apple's controller app when you played (so that game makers don't have to re-build and distribute the controller app for each separate game)
Unless that's just the budget model. I think a streaming-only (or games in HD) A12 model makes a lot of sense paired with a A14 level upper tier aimed at gaming. At some point it has to become cheaper to produce the newer A12 than make the older, bigger A10X.
If the new Apple TV has an 14X won't that—essentially—be what it is? If Apple does release that hardware I foresee a lot of hacks to port MacOS.
Just looked what Stadia is, but hmm, they could implement this in their Arcade service and make it bigger.
Id imagine most two channel people only have their own dacs and don't use an appletv though. Not for music. A receiver is mainly the thing an appletv is meant for. Be it a movie/media device.
Its still easy to use a separate amp with a good receiver with pre outs for your higher end two channel setup. But that still uses hdmi.