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tvOS 26 Liquid Glass Redesign Excludes Older Apple TV Models
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I have HD. It is fast and smooth for me. How it is laggy? I am just curious, is newer Apple TV that much faster make HD seem slow? My Apple TV HD is super fast compare to Roku and everything else TV related.
I could tell a big difference when I got our 4k over HD that we had previously. Had I not used the new one, I might not have noticed.
Our current living room Roku seems faster than the 4k, and so it's been relegated to our exercise room.
You like the touch remote? I've hated in since day one.
I see. We have Roku HD and Roku 4K here (4K is plugged in using ethernet) and it just so sloooooooow compare my Apple TV HD (also plugged in using ethernet). Apps take like 10-30 seconds to load to get main screen while my Apple TV HD like few secs, never more than 10 secs max if app playing up.
Gotcha. Ours is a new TCL Roku TV. Bought it around Christmas.
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Now that I am reading it, I think they may be compatible but the glass UI feature is not available. Kinda odd.
It's the worst. I was trying to be sarcastic. Never works in Internet forums, of course. My bad.
It makes sense Apple TV+ is a tab in the tv app besides the store. The app is wheee most tv content is consolidated in. Amazon does the same thing. It’s also what Apple does with most of its subscriptions. Just about every app that has both streaming and content that can be bought separately has a unified app
Aren't there only two apps that do that and it's Amazon and Apple. I forgot about Amazon so you make a good point there. I just feel like Apple TV+ can stand out a lot more than it does, and you have the same problem you had with Itunes, it's too bloated.
Another touch remote lover here. I have the 4K 3rd gen model myself but at my girlfriends house I frequently use the touch remote and love it.
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Even my 4k 2nd gen is less stable that the Google OS my TV came with, which is a SHAME.
I wanted to use it, but either the volume control kept locking up or the apps would freeze and the remote not work at all.
After a day it got relegated back to my non-smart bedroom TV.
I was really hoping they would update the look of what show is currently selected. I’m constantly clicking back and forth to make sure the show I want is the one selected.
At least we finally get profiles that seem useful. That’s a big one for me. Only thing I’m still pining for is lossless bitstream passthrough.
I thought we had profiles. I guess these are Profiles specifically for the Apple TV+ app?
For me tvOS26 is bringing two features that I was hoping for, but not really believes that could ever really happen: (i) the third party speakers as the default audio output (as Sonos Fives and Ones user - Fives and Ones via AirPlay works really well with AP4K TV - like a double stereo setup) and (ii) iPhone mic working with Apple Music sing. Overall, for many years I was very skeptical of ATV as a streaming box idea (using Chromcast, Amazon Fire TV), now for me it’s like a no-brainer for Apple users. Still Photos App need some more development (sorting order, years, months view, zooming photos etc. - it should be go to option - now it’s not), profiles (we will see what tvOS26 will bring - as I understand it is also on 3rd party side like Netflix to get it working well), Apple Music Videos (now it’s buried in Apple Music App), Apple Music Classical implementation. For now, it’s enough 😉
The iPhone microphone really completes the Apple Music Sing feature. Dang I guess I need to upgrade my Apple TV now. Maybe I’ll wait until 4K gen 4 comes out.
The new profiles pop up when it wakes so kids can pick their profile and I don’t have to see their shows in my watch next
One can only hope at this point. Maybe it’ll come out for Xmas, but I’m not holding my breath.