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Tim Cook Says New Apple TV Will Ship Next Week, Orders Begin Monday
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ah - yes - gotcha - your right - the contrast ratio alone makes it better than led/lcd. super inky blacks!!!!Am talking about a reasonable budget here haha 4K OLED is still super expensive! When 4K OLED is a reasonable price then that's when I'll make the leap to up the resolution. For now though 1080p will serve me just dandy, thanks
The iPad Pro is out in "November", while the
TV is out in "October". With October having only 10 days left, he threw us a bone. Although, "shipping next week" could still mean an October 30/31 shipping date.
iMac.
Before you ask, yes I do own the previous 3 Apple remotes. Black, White and Alu. I do want this 4th one, for no other real reason than I want it. And I will use it. I use the alu one quite a bit actually. With itunes and other things from a distance.
wonder how fast they will be back ordered
I hate the remote app especialy when it always over scrolls ii just want to go one spot and it goes a few its such a pain. I much prefer the buttons
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As discovered by 9to5mac the Siri functionality will only be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, UK and the US. And only in those countries five languages.
For the rest the Siri button on the, then called "Apple TV Remote", will be a search icon. But on Apples Swedish Page the image still shows a Siri icon, but the description of the button says "Search" instead of "Siri". So who knows...
http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/10/siri-apple-tv-languages/
Not sure if this is a first day purchase for me or not. Really want to see what "apps" come out. I had two ATV2's, but sold off one of them and rarely use the other one since I started using Amazon Prime which isn't on ATV. I instead picked up Amazon Fire TV sticks and also have a Roku stick.
There are $20-30 dongles to convert well just about any digital formats on Alibaba (and elsewhere).
Not sure. 9to5mac reported it would be different, but as you said and as I've seen also on the Swedish site the button looks the same with the Siri icon.
Perhaps the early plan was to have two different remotes, looking correct as to the function of the button, since not all would have Siri and then they figured out that would be just stupid since eventually everyone in due time will get Siri and it's dumb to have two different versions of the same remote. Who knows...
Shouldn't be a big issue. They've already been shipping plenty to developers for free to get them into making apps. They've had the supply chain up and running for a couple months now so they've got a study supply of them stockpiled.
Unless it's a crazy runaway hit (very unlikely), there shouldn't be a big backlog.
The more space, the more space
I read somewhere that appa for Apple TV will be limited to 200 MB but that might change and depending on what you wanna do you might want the extra space. No games, just movie apps? Then you're probably fine with 32.
Lets race to see who can carry out tasks faster. I guarantee it'll take you longer to unlock your phone, find and launch the app then carry out the task than me simply pressing the desired button on the remote or asking Siri.
Some also don't have an iPhone. It'd be silly to ignore all of those without them by requiring they have an iOS device around the house to use this. It'd really limit sales potential to the 400 million iOS users to ignore the 1.5 billion Android users.
Nope. They announced that the Apple TV would be running a new OS called tvOS. A "new" OS couldn't be at version 9.0 already. iOS is at version 9 and that is not the same thing as tvOS.
Movies are stores even if you stream. If you watch an iTunes movie the whole movie is temporarely downloaded to your Apple TV. That's why the 3rd Gen has 8 GB of storage, to fit a whole film. When you watch a new one that one get's downloaded. Same with Netflix, Youtube, etc, but they might only download part of it at a time. So count on 4-6 GB being set aside just for that.
The more space, the more space
Games can use extra space but it's only temporary. As soon as you leave the app, other apps can use that space. Imagine how much bandwidth you're going to have to use to download a game every single time you play it. Because of this, most developers will not be making games over 200MB.
I have yet to see a good argument for the 64GB over the 32GB. Just means you can have 200 apps on it rather than 80 apps. With most people only using about 5 apps total (based on iOS usage studies) and the others only being used once and then left to sit, it seems a bit silly to go for 64GB.
The new Apple TV is currently running tvOS 9.0 for developers. 9.1 will likely be released shortly after for iOS users.
Not gonna happen. Pre-orders from Apple will happen in November. Don't hold your breath.
Have you used the Smart TVs apps? They are slow, clunky and just not updateable. I was using Netflix on a new Smart TV and it took ages to find a film. Not to mention the pointless voice control. "Volume up" and it raises the volume one step after 5 seconds.
Yes and no. And Yes. The early reports suggested a different remote. Now it "looks" like the same, but I'll believe it when I see it. Besides, the big fail lies in that Siri is such a huge selling point (besides apps) but still only 10% of the countries will have it on release.