This is good feedback. At this point, its on my radar and while I
think on it, I will work with the 3rd.
I have not been connected to cable in a long while and have no plans
to reconnect.
Over the air is decent here. So I would not be losing anything to
see if I can use the Apple TV primarily. I think I will use Netflix too.
Another factor you reminded me of is the slow pace of squashing bugs
in new products.
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On 5/30/2016 3:11 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
Nothing says you can’t continue to use the 3rd gen, if it meets your needs.
Certainly with the decided dearth of apps on the fourth, you might not even
notice.
For me, the two noticeable improvements are BBC iPlayer and iCloud Photo Stream
(for my mother’s photo collection on her account). Everything else is iTunes.
To be fair, apps are a big deal: Plex is now available for Apple TV, although I
don’t have a need for that yet. Youtube, LoveFilm and others may well be nice,
but they're nothing you don’t already get on your phone or on most smart TVs
anyway. You really can’t get away from the fact that exclusive TV continues to
be cable or terrestrial, so you’ll probably use your ATV as a supplement,
rather than a substitute.
And the 4th gen has a learning curve. The new touch remote doesn’t have quite
the refinement of the physical click remote of the 3rd IMO, although the latter
remains supported (but less well). You need a book [1] just to use the thing
properly. The bugs in the software are still being worked out; it only
recently got Bluetooth keyboard support and the iOS Remote app. Oh, and
HDMI-CEC now works, mostly; a bright spot which means I no longer need to
fiddle with switching inputs, but also meaning that if I grip the remote in the
wrong place, I’ll switch inputs accidentally. You’d better not be using an
optical digital audio receiver, neither, because the port is gone, leaving you
with no option but to use HDMI splitters. iTunes is too slow for my Internet
connection, so faster Wi-Fi hardly matters to me; I still use 10/100 Ethernet,
and that hasn’t changed.
It’s up to you, but I personally feel that both products are, themselves, in
their own right. My brother stuck with the third, in the end, after a stint
with the fourth. Yeah, I agree with him. It meets his needs, takes it off my
hands, and is still a truly joyful experience in a way that the 4th has yet to
be, IMO. If apps, a faster processor and the new, new thing are important,
well, go ahead and buy the latest Apple TV. :)
[1] http://mosen.org/atv4
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