“Apple today released a new update for tvOS, the operating system designed to run on the fourth-generation Apple TV,” Juli Clover reports for MacRUmors.
“The tvOS 10.1.1 update can be downloaded on the fourth-generation Apple TV using the Settings app,” Clover reports.
“No new features or changes were discovered in the tvOS 10.1.1 beta,” Clover reports, “but as a 10.1.x update, it’s likely to be minor in scale, primarily focusing on introducing bug fixes and performance optimizations.”
Full article here.
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Roku is so much better than ATV. God, why did I wait so long? And only $94. Beat that, Apple.
I have to agree. I got a Roku for Christmas. I love it.
i’ve got 4 RokuTVs, and 3 AppleTV boxes, and they’re different. They both have things they’re good at and not good at. The AppleTV is better at aggregating all my VOD movies in one spot, instead of having to go into each movie channel app on the Roku. Also, the channel guide on the AppleTV is much better, and having the program listings accessible at the bottom of the screen is better. Plus, while the Roku in general has good access to a variety of programming, they also get things late like the DirectTV $35 offer has already expired while the Roku doesn’t have an app yet.
Roku is decent at best, but if you like it more than your Apple TV you must not know how to work your Apple TV.
App Store, games, apps of all sorts, accessibility features out the ass, Siri, airplay, and more.
These two device play to the TV, that’s all they have in common. Look at market share. Apple TV is killing Roku for damn good reason. People just wanna complain about how something known as “the best,” could be better with lame statements but no suggested improvements.
News to me. For the last couple years Roku has led the market for streaming video, followed by Amazon and Google. Apple TV is the laggard. Have to be more than a hobby to actually complete with serious competition.
ATV—– when will you have 4k available on ATV??????????
Awkward clumsy UI and a confusing remote that gets lost in seconds and turns the TV on the moment you find it, AND manages to be backwards 90% of the time you pick it up. Great job Apple.
At least one of your issues is easily resolved—disable CEC functionality to prevent automatic TV power-on. Check your Apple TV’s settings.
Yes, let’s blame Apple for how you pick up something without feeling the buttons or even looking at it. -_-
Let’s compare objectively, shall we?
Roku’s remote has one-click buttons that take you directly to the most popular services, an obvious home button to go to all the other services, and clear buttons that navigate all the other stuff, even gaming A and B buttons. You can grab the thing and immediately know how it is oriented:
Meanwhile the Apple remote has 5 physical buttons and a touchpad that is more frustrating to use than a simple 4-direction arrow button array:
– Menu
– Home – which is different than menu, for some reason
– Siri – which will drive you nuts
– Play/Pause – because proper complete playback controls would be too obvious
– Volume up/down – because adding a mute button is just too difficult
http://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/4974/as-images.apple.com/is/image/AppleInc/aos/published/images/a/pp/apple/tv/apple-tv-gallery3-201510?wid=2000&hei=1536&fmt=jpeg&qlt=95&op_sharpen=0&resMode=bicub&op_usm=0.5,0.5,0,0&iccEmbed=0&layer=comp&.v=Exhkb3
Once again, Apple trots out fashion and misses big on function.
Also illustrative of how Apple is now too cute to make anything work simply and effectively, look at how Roku’s website has an image link that just works. Meanwhile the Apple website link doesn’t work with WordPress. So you have an extra click to actually see the Apple TV remote. What a perfect metaphor for the new Apple.
And another plus for the Roku, comes with headphones that plug right into the remote for private listening. Genius.
I like the Apple TV, but it definitely needs more work. I did put a case on the remote, partly because the idea of dropping and shattering the glass remote and having to buy a replacement for more than half the cost of the device is not appealing to me. But also it does help with the issue of the remote slipping and telling which way it is oriented. The issue of it instantly doing things when you pick it up is real. My cat ends up changing the channel on the TV streaming service, a problem I never had with a standard remote. And it is easy to graze the remote and have it turn on the TV in intentionally. Yes, you can turn off CEC, but then you have to use another remote when you really do want to turn it on. Not optimal.
Siri is half-baked. Unlike Alexa on Amazon Fire TV, Siri is silent, which I sort of understand being an option, but Apple gives no choice. As a result, Siri does not do much. It doesn’t really work in third-party apps. So if I want to tell DirecTV Now to tune to TCM, I can’t. You can access Siri within third-party apps if the miserable on-screen keyboard is showing. But some apps like Hulu don’t use the standard system keyboard.
My biggest gripe is one I hope they’ll fix. The AirPods integration is terrible. You can’t tell Siri to “connect to AirPods”. You have to go in and connect them manually each time. Better would be Siri and to add the option to the audio options you get in some apps when you swipe down. Also if you do switch the audio to the AirPods, you can’t also have the audio play from the standard output. This is too bad. They probably do that for synch reasons, but I’d like to be able to pop the airPods in and go to the bathroom or kitchen without interrupting the TV viewing for anyone else.