New Apple TV 4K - Hacker News

Posted by corvad 11 hours ago

New Apple TV 4K(www.apple.com)

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baron816 4 hours ago|

I would 100% buy one of these if it were $200 or maybe even $250. $300 is outrageous.

QGQBGdeZREunxLe 9 hours ago||

Software still sucks on Apple TV and feels like an afterthought compared to other platforms.

Yesterday I was watching Dark Matter on my Plex server. I asked Siri to turn on English subtitles which are there:

> I'm afraid I'm having trouble getting the available languages.

This is after Plex's big update recently...

lostlogin 7 hours ago|

I don’t think Siri ever worked with Plex but the new Plex app is a UI horror show.

I read reports that it handles video much better, but that wasn’t an issue I regularly faced.

QGQBGdeZREunxLe 5 hours ago||

It struggles with 4K h264 video files easily played by Infuse player because Plex inefficiently processes video files without web optimization enabled.

brandon272 4 hours ago||

In Canada this is nearly $500 with sales tax. A total non-starter for me, personally.

athorax 10 hours ago||

At $300 I really would have expected they include a full year of Apple TV, 3 months doesn't cut it

minhazm 8 hours ago||

I was hoping they would finally add a camera or just let me plug in a webcam into it for facetime. Continuity camera doesn't work super well and the set up each time sucks.

splix 10 hours ago||

I actually waited for it. My years old Apple TV died some time ago so I had a chance to use the Android TV that comes with the TV itself. And it's so terrible. I don't understand why even YouTube app is much better on Apple TV than the Android TV one

cornstalks 9 hours ago||

Is this the first Apple device to list VP9 in its tech specs? https://www.apple.com/apple-tv-4k/specs/

layer8 9 hours ago|

Looks like it is: https://www.google.com/search?udm=web&q=site:www.apple.com+v...

hk1337 7 hours ago||

Other than Siri AI upgrades, I wonder how much different this is compared to the previous Apple TV 4K with usage primarily being connecting to Jellyfin.

chrisferry 7 hours ago||

Whoa, $299?! Guess I'll be sticking with my 2022 model. I see zero upside to upgrading, other than being $300 poorer.

meerita 9 hours ago|

I still don't get how Apple can claim to have a "TV" product without actually making a TV. I always expected Apple to build the entire TV, not just a box.

etchalon 8 hours ago||

Why make just one TV when you can make a box that plugs into any TV?

meerita 8 hours ago||

Overall? Superior hardware experience.

Synaesthesia 7 hours ago|||

How much better can you make a TV? Also the margins are quite thin. Companies like LG and Samsung have pretty much perfected it.

meerita 6 hours ago|||

But people don't pay for Apple just to save some bucks. People pay for Apple products to get the best of the best. I bet if Apple did a true Smart TV, people would just buy it eyes closed. Same happened back then with mobile phones, the market was flooded with options, look how successful they were with the iPhone.

lostlogin 7 hours ago|||

‘LG perfecting TVs’ is quite funny in light of their privacy shenanigans.

etchalon 5 hours ago|||

I don't think Apple could do better than a high-end Sony.

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