Maccast 2015.09.24 - The New Apple TV

Opening

Guest Ara Derderian HDTV Podcast
Housekeeping
- Apology to my UK listeners on messing up the cost of Apple Music subscriptions.
- Obvioiusly USD $9.99 is not going to be equivilent to £9.00
- So you also pay over USD$15.00/mo. for Apple Music. Quite a bit more.

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Specs
- iFixit Teardown
  - Only a few plastic clips stand in the way here, with no adhesive or screws in sight.
- 64-bit A8 chip
- 2GB RAM
- HDMI 1.4
- USB‑C for service and support
- 100 Base-T Ethernet and 802.11ac WiFi
  - Are these fast enough
  - Reliable enough
- Loss of Digital Optical out
  - Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
  - Enhanced speech
Pricing & Storage
- 32GB * USD $149
- 64GB * USD$199
Features
- Siri Remote
  - Dual microphones, a Glass Touch surface, and a Lightning connector
  - More buttons than ever.
    - Menu, Home, Siri, Play/Pause, Volume
  - Accelerometer and gyroscope
- Connect bluetooth headphones and speakers
- No 4K, 1080p at 60fps
- Common Sense Media reviews
New UI
- All new OS. tvOS.
  - No upgrades for older boxes. Does it matter?
- Cleaner update to Apple TV UI
- Parallax icons
Siri
- Contextual universal search
  - Limited to
- Control playback
  - “Skip forward 10 minutes”
  - “What did she just say?”
- Sports, News, Weather, Movie & TV show info
- Only in 8 countries at launch
Cinematic screen savers.
- Is this even necessary?
- What about the environment?
Apps & Games
- Apple says “Apps are the future of television”, do we agree?
  - Other TVs have had apps for years, what’s the difference?
- Are games really a big deal?
  - What about not requiring 3rd party controllers?
- What about other apps?
  - Is anything/everything appropriate?
  - Apple showed shopping apps and apps like Airbnb

With apps now being supported can it replace a Mac Mini Media Center?
- Plex and VLC have said they will have apps
If it is Apple TV, how would you set it up?
- Where do you store content?
- Latest tools for managing content
- Is BlueRay still a thing?
What about home automation and HomeKit?
- Apple really didn’t say much with respect to the Apple TV

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