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Apple TV: The Latest Rumors About a New Model and Possible $99 Price
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I hope a new AppleTV with more gaming abilities, but I am afraid it will be AI oriented and will listen to / look at me which I don't want.
The other concern is that they'd probably price at or above the price of an actual gaming console
Better user interface, few games, music, and some streaming that are not available on my Panasonic 4k TV.
Ooh I can answer this!!
Loading apps/browsing them etc- very little but noticeably/ not worth an upgrade.
Airplaying HEVC HDR 4K- YES. Original could do it but would stutter for me if bitrate got too high, couldn't scrub efficiently if your trying to move back, get to a certain point, new models fly through without a problem. Really depends on what your doing with the device.
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Just give me local storage for media then might upgrade my HD version
Thank you for this answer
I'm still on original ATV4ks and it sounds like my usage wouldn't really benefit at all (just watching YouTube, YouTubeTV and Airplay of music)
Man this would be nice
Infuse + a physically connected hard drive (or RAID enclosure) could be all many current Plex users need
(which is why it would never happen)
I’ve had all 3. The A12, not so much. But I was surprised how fast the A15 model is. Definitely a better experience
I mean, I guess, but isn't it easier to make your storage device accessible on the LAN so all your ATVs can access it instead of moving it/them around?
Just depends upon usage -- I agree with you, as I run Plex off my TrueNAS server
But - I have some situations (vacation house and/or travel) where I'd love to have a hard drive + ATV be "it" for a large content library
Flexibility would be nice
Honestly, I think you should consider buying one and returning it if you don’t notice a difference.
I just had to buy a new Gen 3 remote, the last one ended up in the washer. But aside from that the OG 4k is still rocking
The USB-C port is added to comply with EU regulations, jus' sayin'. Of course, for the benefit of the consumer, it should have been upgraded much earlier.
It's already a couple years old, otherwise I might
At this point I'll just keep waiting I think
If Apple actually "reduced prices for things that are older" I'd be interested
But - with how they do things, you get perpetually more screwed the older the products get..
Such an odd strategy (from a consumer point of view)
Maybe others just relent and buy anyways?
For me -- it just makes me buy nothing (or buy preowned, and let someone else take the hit)
I brought my backup NAS with me on an extended vacation, mostly so I could test offsite backups (it normally lives on a different floor of my house) but also so I could bring a ton of downloaded content instead of streaming it from my primary NAS as I have Starlink (which had pretty low UL speeds).
What would be awesome is if they supported USB WebCams. You wouldn’t have to choose between continuity camera and using your iPhone.
As I read the article, I can't help but to wonder when Apple will end the current numbering schemes. Third-generation AppleTV 4K, tvOS 17, etc. Is there really going to be tvOS47? Can't they just use the year with everything - iPhone 2024, AppleTV 2024, macOS 2024?
Isn't this basically what they did with the iPad 3. It was officially just called "iPad" with people expecting to realize it was new by release year. Was awkward enough they eventually changed it to the Air.
Again, I'd be pretty surprised to see a new Apple TV this year. There isn't really a reason to do it at this time - there isn't a chip that Apple can put in right now that would allow for further price reductions (and the A15 is still pretty current) and there aren't any must have new features. Next Apple TV will probably be an 8K, and Apple will wait for 8K TVs to be more mainstream and then will release a new Apple TV 8K as the premium option, while keeping around the current 4K as the budget option.
There's little point to pass through if the ATV can decode the DTS itself and send it through HDMI as uncompressed multichannel PCM.
Support for uncompressed TRUE-HD audio or go home. Nothing else is needed.
#1 - Increase the audio resolution output, and add a software solution to resample and up convert audio to a very high quality format 24/192 or 1bit DSD. Software solutions like Roon do this quite easily, I'm sure apple can figure it out.
#2 - Increase video resolution output, and add a video upscaler. Again that's a software solution they should be able to figure out.
If they can do both of those things, keep the price the same or even increase it. Those are the features I want.
#2 - Increase video resolution output, and add a video upscaler. Again that's a software solution they should be able to figure out.
If they can do both of those things, keep the price the same or even increase it. Those are the features I want.