Apple Watch preorders are approaching quickly, but will it be difficult to get your hands on one? Also, it looks like the upcoming Apple TV may lack an important future-proofing feature. The Happy Hour podcast is available for download on iTunes and through our dedicated RSS feed…
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Here’s what we discussed in this episode:
- Apple Watch pre-orders will begin at 12:01 PDT on April 10
- AppleCare+ for Apple Watch: $999 for Edition, $79 for Watch, $59 for Sport
- Upcoming refreshed Apple TV reportedly will not feature support for 4K video
- Angela Ahrendts to retail staff: Encourage customers to buy Apple Watch & MacBook online
- Opinion: Could the 1080p Apple TV 4 hint at a 4K Apple TV set?
- Epic Samsung Galaxy S6 cinematic camera test (Video)
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I can see 4K in use as a monitor resolution, that many pixels makes it easier to adjust your monitor to a resolution of your eyesight is comfortable with and quite useful for editing graphics. On the other hand how useful is 4K resolution on a monitor that sits across the room with moving graphics? I have a 42 inch screen that supports 1080p and no matter how hard I try I can’t tell the difference between 1080p and 720p. At that distance they’re all Retina. Can you really tell the difference between 720p and 4K? Is it worth the bandwidth especially now that certain cable companies are starting to charge more if you exceed 300 or so gigabytes per month? I see 4K as a very successful marketing gimmick for televisions, nothing more.
If you can’t tell the difference between 720p and 4k then you are not seeing the right images. That’s about as simple as I can put it. It is very, very clearly different. Between 1080p and 4k it’s just hands down better with quality 4k images. Try the black list on Netflix at 4k it’s insane, and that’s highly compressed…
Reread my post and then go to isthisretina.com.
Seems like the processor ability is to support 4k is most important. If so then it would just be a software update from supporting it. I believe the rumor said something to the extent of “won’t initially support 4k”
In my opinion Apple should never do an integrated TV set. The thing about a TV set that apparently no one understands is that it’s a product that customers upgrade only every several years 3-5 probably average. When you’re talking about putting computer chips in something that people only upgrade that often, when its inherently a device that would benefit from frequent improvements (for gaming capabilities), it just doesn’t make sense. The box makes so much more sense because it could easily be updated yearly to accommodate better gaming and apps. Not to mention the fact that it can be sold to tend to hundreds of millions of people as opposed to a highly expensive TV set which would be sold to rather minute number of people. Apple likes enriching lives, and you aren’t enriching too many lives with a TV set that hardly anyone is going to purchase, compared to a box which anyone with an HDTV may purchase.
Having said that, what I wouldn’t mind seeing is Apple releasing a new line of Cinema Displays. Just incredibly ellegant, and beautifully designed displays with brilliant picture quality. No integration at all. Just bare bones best possible displays they can make. The people that would purchase these would also purchase an Apple TV box and that would then be the combined experience whilst allowing the upgrading to the newest tech in the new box. TV displays should remain displays, and they should just become as thin with as little bezel and as good a picture quality as possible.
So I think new Apple TVs at multiple storage capacities and new Cinema Displays at multiple display sizes would be the best possible solution. Keep in mind that they are both designed by Apple so they’d integrate seamlessly with one and other. Integrating it all into TV sets would simply make them be exceedingly expensive things which few could enjoy. If you separate them, then potentially hundreds of millions can enjoy the Apple TV box, and people that choose to purchase the display can enjoy both.