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Here’s what we discussed in this episode:
- Apple TV (4th Gen) unboxing + exclusive in-depth hands-on guide [Video]
- The new Apple TV is now available to order from the Apple Online Store, first units ship October 30th
- Hands-on with Apple’s Remote Loop, the $13 HDTV protector for your Apple TV Siri Remote [Photos]
- How-To: Make Apple TV screenshots and video captures without using Xcode
- The 10 best Apple TV apps to grab on day one (and honorable mentions)
- You can buy the Apple TV from today in Apple Stores, Best Buy, MacMall & other retailers
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Really enjoying myTuner radio on Apple TV – https://youtu.be/FA5W-u10asY
Has tones of podcasts and stations from all over the world. Awesome!
Did you just waste everyone 90 seconds of battery life of mobile data talking about audible dot com?
You very briefly touched on one of my biggest gripes with the new ATV – that most video apps are just straight ports of ATV3 “apps”. They’re visually terrible, with just white text on a plain back background. Really little different than an screen of MS-DOS text. They also jar badly with the very bright and slight front end UI. There’s no reason or excuse for it on the new platform. Take YouTube for example, it has a nice material design interface on other platforms (such as on the PS4 and iPad), but on the ATV4, it looks like total garbage. And searching for videos with an on screen keyboard…? It’s laughable.
Is this just a temporary problem? Will Google update the YouTube app (assuming they’re behind the ATV app) to give it the same big screen interface they use everywhere else?
Another pig ugly example is NOW TV, which looks pretty nice on other platforms but is the most bare bones and rudimentary thing possible on the ATV4. It’s an eyesore, and one which also lacks much of the functionality of other NOW TV platforms.
Benjamin – you also didn’t mention the near total lack of UK apps. Yes we have a truly awful NOW TV app, and Netflix, but little else. No Amazon, no BBC iPlayer, no MUBI (although it’s coming at some point apparently), no All4, no ITV Player, no Demand 5 etc. Hopefully this will change, we know iPlayer will arrive eventually, but that’s nowhere near enough. The big UK services are iPlayer, Netflix, and Amazon. The ATV only has one of those. By contrast the far cheaper Fire TV has them all. Unless you have a ton of iTunes content I can’t imagine why anyone would choose an ATV over a Fire TV in the UK.
I’m aware of the poor UK content situation. I can’t fit everything into one show though and prefer not to gripe about UK-only issues where possible. Zac is written a good post about the ATV ‘port’ apps ATM.