Anyone got experience with BOTH the Apple TV “app” on new smart TVs *and* with an Apple TV box? Is the app good enough that you don’t need the box anymore?
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You shouldn’t plug your tv into the internet :)
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Can you touch on some of the downsides and implications?
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The TVs are actively gathering data by design and proven security breaches if they have a mic or camera. I’m not a tin foil hat person... I use Zoom, a credit card, and even a Safeway member number. But no way would I connect my TV to the internet. AppleTV is the firewall.
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💯 hard same. I bought a "commercial display" because it's almost impossible to find a not-smart TV these days. Just give me a panel and I'll add the smarts I trust (Apple TV) externally.
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One problem — YouTube app on Apple TV 4K doesn’t play 4K or HDR (doesn’t use VP9/VP9.2 codec). This is such a stupid pissing contest between Apple and Google. It’s truly wonderful when multi-billion dollar companies can’t cooperate for the benefit of the customers who made them.
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Is this a VP9 vs HEVC thing? I assume the Apple TV is too low power to implement software decoding and needs hardware support, but that means a new Apple TV to get VP9, if Apple will even add that since they're all in on HEVC? What a mess.
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Yeah. It’s not a hardware power thing. My 2017 iPhone X plays VP9 just fine.
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Replying to @photojoseph @alexlindsay @ereissig11
iPhone X is the A11 processor. The Apple TV is A8, Apple TV 4K is the A10, so it'll be a while before a new chip makes it to an updated Apple TV!

Apr 18, 2020 · 3:59 PM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk @alexlindsay @ereissig11
Yeah I still don’t buy it’s a processor thing.
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Ok you're right, at least on the TV 4K, because Plex can play VP9 videos on it. They must have bundled a software decoder into Plex to do that without hardware acceleration.
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