Apple Brings Releases new Apple TV

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/10/2015 08:17 AM | source: | 67 comment(s)

Apple sent out a press release announcing a new set-top box for televisions that brings applications to living room. The revised Apple TV features powerful hardware, a modernized operating system with a new user experience, weighty developer tools, and a complete App Store. To start, the new Apple TV relies on voice and touch to control it.

The remote has a glass touch surface for navigating through menus as well as secondary buttons for making selections. The Siri button allows users to make voice requests or perform searches for specific shows or movies. Siri's powers are extensive and can answer questions, switch apps, or control playback with a quick command. The Apple TV is smart enough to offer content from third-party providers, too, such as Netflix and Hulu. The platform is called tvOS and Apple says it will allow developers to use its standard tools to create apps that will run on Apple TV and television sets. The remote can act as a game controller, but so too can existing iPhones and iPods Touch. The Apple TV will cost $149 for 32GB and $199 for 64GB. It will ship in October. Developers can download the associated tvOS SDK and APIs today.

The App Store, Siri Remote & tvOS are Coming to Your Living Room

SAN FRANCISCO — September 9, 2015 — Apple® today announced the all-new Apple TV®, bringing a revolutionary experience to the living room based on apps built for the television. Apps on Apple TV let you choose what to watch and when you watch it.The new Apple TV’s remote features Siri®, so you can search with your voice for TV shows and movies across multiple content providers simultaneously.

The all-new Apple TV is built from the ground up with a new generation of high-performance hardware and introduces an intuitive and fun user interface using the Siri Remote™. Apple TV runs the all-new tvOS™ operating system, based on Apple’s iOS, enabling millions of iOS developers to create innovative new apps and games specifically for Apple TV and deliver them directly to users through the new Apple TV App Store™.

“There has been so much innovation in entertainment and programming through iOS apps, we want to bring that same excitement to the television,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “Apps make the TV experience even more compelling for viewers and we think apps represent the future of TV.”

The new Siri Remote dramatically simplifies how you select, scroll and navigate through your favorite content while bringing unique interactivity to the new Apple TV by using a glass touch surface that handles both small, accurate movements as well as big, sweeping ones. Adding touch to Apple TV creates a natural, connected experience, even if the TV screen is on the other side of the room. Developers can take advantage of the built-in accelerometer and gyroscope, and the touch surface on the Siri Remote to create games and other app experiences that have never been seen on TV before.

With Siri, you can use your voice to search TV shows and movies by title, genre, cast, crew, rating or popularity, making it easy to say things like “Show me New Girl,” “Find the best funny movies from the ‘80s,” “Find movies with Jason Bateman” and “Find popular TV shows for kids.” Apple TV will search iTunes® and popular apps from Netflix, Hulu, HBO and Showtime, displaying all the ways the resulting TV shows and movies can be played. Siri also offers playback control and on-screen navigation, as well as quick access to sports, stock and weather information.*

tvOS is the new operating system for Apple TV, and the tvOS SDK provides tools and APIs for developers to create amazing experiences for the living room the same way they created a global app phenomenon for iPhone® and iPad®. The new, more powerful Apple TV features the Apple-designed A8 chip for even better performance so developers can build engaging games and custom content apps for the TV. tvOS supports key iOS technologies including Metal™, for detailed graphics, complex visual effects and Game Center, to play and share games with friends.

Pricing & Availability
The new Apple TV will be available at the end of October starting at $149 (US) for a 32GB model and $199 (US) for a 64GB model

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Barry J
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#5156766 Posted on: 09/10/2015 12:00 PM

Apple TV sounds great but it is not an option for me ITunes store films are just not competitive I can get the same films a lot cheaper. Apple needs to price its films better then I may be interested.

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#5156768 Posted on: 09/10/2015 12:05 PM

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#5156769 Posted on: 09/10/2015 12:07 PM

fixed, thanks.

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#5156868 Posted on: 09/10/2015 02:37 PM

If Apple allowed the installation of entertainment apps like FilmON, and other TV station players (like RTE & 3Player here in Ireland) that would make the Apple TV FAR more appealing.

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#5156948 Posted on: 09/10/2015 05:25 PM

A $50 AndroidTV stick with a cheap $20 remote is better then this.
At least I can install Kodi with sportsdevil and popcorntime and stream away if I chose.
Please I hate Itunes so much. Its a clunky pos that has gone backwards in performance and functionality.

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#5157183 Posted on: 09/11/2015 08:00 AM

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#5157356 Posted on: 09/11/2015 02:30 PM

A set-top box? Seriously?

Who in their right mind bothers with such antiquated notions these days?

Step 1: Go to tv store.
Step 2: Buy tv.
Step 3: Take tv home and get everything a set-top box will give you without the need to actually buy a set-top box.

These products are really for poor people or stupid people or both. There is no reason whatsoever to buy one.

One tv.
One remote.
All the content you could ever need.

Hell, all the top manufacturers have voice control built into the remote control or just by yelling at the tv anyway. Most have gesture control and laser-pointing-esqe remotes as well.

Smart TVs are not all made equal, and many of them do not have all the capabilities that Roku, Apple TV, and even same smart blu-ray players have. Not only that, but you're also talking about the very high end smart TVs. Are you telling me, that i should go and buy the high end smart TV for a "complete package" for typically $1000 over the non-smart or even lower-end smart TV that looks, for the most part, the same quality wise? over paying 50-120 for a Roku or blu ray player?

Obviously, most TV manufacturers try and make that $1000 go further with more Hz and ports and etc. but the actual side-by-side comparison is usually not worth $1000, again this depends on the TV, but there's no way i'm going to pay $1000, for having a Smart TV that has all the apps and capabilities as a Roku or etc., no freakin way.

As to the Apple TV. Great, a way for Apple to release something and make it cost more, go apple!...........................

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#5157360 Posted on: 09/11/2015 02:37 PM

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#5157434 Posted on: 09/11/2015 05:19 PM

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#5157480 Posted on: 09/11/2015 07:02 PM

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#5157485 Posted on: 09/11/2015 07:13 PM

My Samsung Smart TV is a piece of ****. The software sucks, it's laggy, Samsung ****ing advertises on it, and half the apps don't even connect to their respective services anymore. The voice control is terrible.

Unless future smart TVs comes with Android TV built in or this, I'm never getting one again. My Nvidia Shield is like 10x better than any set top box or smart TV.

Wife and I were trying to watch The Layover last night and the damn thing kept stopping and giving us the buffering thing - it would hang at 25% for a good ten seconds or more before resuming the show. That happened 5 times in one 40 minute show. Meanwhile the non-smart TV in the other room with the old ass Roku HD never has any issues at all.

Thanks Samsung.

P.S. The Panny ST50 Plasma I had previously (my son broke it with a drumstick) had a fantastic smart chip in it. It was as good or better than the Roku software.

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#5157487 Posted on: 09/11/2015 07:17 PM

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#5157497 Posted on: 09/11/2015 07:38 PM

If your teevee is that bad, get a new one. If you can't afford it, I'm sure you can afford home insurance...

My comments relate directly to functionality and content. There is nothing this product offers which a teevee gives you anyway. I humbly stand to be corrected.

I don't really get your argument. You're suggesting that I buy a new $1000 TV to get around these issues, instead of buying a $150 device? I've honestly been shopping for a new TV because I want 4:4:4 support -- all the Smart TV's I've come across suck. You talk about offering features but you don't talk about how well those features are implemented. Yeah, maybe the TV has all the same checkboxes as the Apple TV, but the Apple TV checkboxes are way easier to use, visually more appealing, and often have greater extent of that functionality. With Smart TV's the UI design is terrible. There is no open development platform, you're basically at the mercy of Samsung/LG/etc to expand the content and features. The voice control is god awful. It doesn't integrate with third party services at all (At least neither both the Samsung TV I own, nor the LG's I've tried support voice searching through Netflix content). And AFAIK there is no Smart TV capable of game streaming from my PC to it, which the Shield is capable of.

Idk -- to me a good experience is worth far more than a bunch of features. I can't stand Samsung phones for the same reason. Touchwiz looks like Bob Ross took a nature colored **** on the screen. The features are all thrown together like a mess. The interface doesn't cohere to either Android standards or Samsung's own standard, they use radial menu's in some places and square menu's in others.

Newer TV's, like Sony, are just starting to integrate things like Android TV into the TV itself -- I think that's pretty cool. The interface is pretty well designed, it has a market, the voice control is actually acceptable, etc. But the home grown Smart TV interfaces like LG's WebOS garbage or Samsung's Trash Hub or w/e it's called -- those can die in a fire.

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#5157508 Posted on: 09/11/2015 08:01 PM

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#5157524 Posted on: 09/11/2015 08:53 PM

Why in the hell would I ever spend 2000 dollars on a ****ing TV with a piece of **** Snapdragon 400 that will be impossible to upgrade in two years when it doesn't run anything? Why would I ever not just have a box that costs 50-200 dollars that does tons of stuff, is constantly updated, and can be upgraded without significant cost or difficulty.

Anyone who thinks the market works like that is living in a fantasy world.

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