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1. #LIVE STREAM PLAYER FOR APPLE TV FULL#
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4. #LIVE STREAM PLAYER FOR APPLE TV TV#

The Apple TV remote controlled both TVs' volume right out of the box. I connected the player directly to the displays for most of my testing, but I also added in an Onkyo TX-RZ900 AV receiver at the end to test video pass-through and multichannel audio playback. I used the Apple TV 4K with three different displays: first with my older, non-HDR-capable Samsung UN65HU8550 4K TV, then the HDR10-capable Sony VPL-VW285ES projector, and finally the VIZIO P65-E1 4K monitor that supports both HDR10 and Dolby Vision. The box's internal storage is specifically for apps/games, not personal media files. There's also no USB port to connect a USB drive. The box lacks the optical digital audio output found on some competing players, so HDMI is your only audio output option (at least from a cable standpoint).

On the Apple TV's back panel, you'll find a single HDMI 2.0a output, a Gigabit Ethernet port for a wired network connection (built-in 802.11ac dual-band Wi-F with MIMO is also available), and a power port. Both options provide a basic user interface that mimics the button functions on the remote, and both allow for the use of a virtual keyboard for faster text input the Apple TV app adds the ability to use the iOS device's built-in microphone for Siri voice control. You can also control the new Apple TV with Apple's basic Remote app or the newer Apple TV remote app on your iOS device. The Apple TV box also has an IR receiver on the front panel, so you can control it via a universal IR remote.

The little white circle on the new remote provides the needed visual cue to keep that from happening.

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I was always picking up the old remote and pointing the wrong end at the box (and feeling quite stupid for doing so)-it doesn't matter from a communication standpoint because the remote communicates via Bluetooth and doesn't require line of sight, but it obviously matters in terms of pressing the right button for the desired task. Because the remote is so symmetrical in its design, it was hard to tell at a casual glance if you were holding the remote upside down. That may seem like nothing, but it tells me that other people had the same problem I did with the previous version of the remote.

Apple made one simple but very helpful change to the remote, adding a white circle around the menu button. The remote control also has the same simple design as its predecessor: in the center you'll find six buttons for TV/home, menu, voice search, play/pause, and volume up/down, and the top third is a glass-touch surface that allows you to navigate via slide-touch or click for enter. The 4K player looks identical to the previous 4th-gen version ( reviewed here): It's a 3.9-inch square with a 1.4-inch height and a black finish (matte on the top and bottom, glossy on the sides). I picked up the 32GB version at my local Walmart for this review. It's available in two versions: the 32GB version for $179.99 or the 64GB version for $199.99. The player is built on the A10X Fusion processor with a 64-bit architecture. The other big news was that Apple finally decided to make nice with Amazon and VUDU and add apps for those services to the Apple TV store, although both apps have some limitations that I'll get to in a minute.īeyond 4K/HDR support, other major features of the new Apple TV include a stronger gaming emphasis than some rivals, voice search/control through Siri, use of the Apple TV or Remote iOS app to control the player, and compatibility with Apple's HomeKit to control smart home devices. That bucked the trend by Amazon, Google, and VUDU of charging a premium for the UHD version, and those other guys are now shifting their pricing structure accordingly.

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In conjunction with the Apple TV release, Apple announced the addition of 4K/HDR movies to the iTunes Store and made some waves in the software market by making the purchase price the same for UHD movies as it is for HD movies-usually, $19.99 or less.

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I suppose the good thing about waiting is that Apple was able to include full HDR support-with both HDR10 and Dolby Vision-in its first 4K-capable box, while Amazon and Roku had to work their way up to HDR support (and still don't offer Dolby Vision in their latest boxes). That was general sentiment back in September when Apple finally launched a 4K version of its Apple TV streaming media player, given that competitors like Amazon, Roku, Google, and NVIDIA were already on their second- or third-generation UHD players by then.