“Over the past 25 years, I have personally used no less than 25 DMAs (digital media adapters) or some sort of digital electronics connected to or inside my TVs,” Patrick Moorhead writes for Forbes. “I have used 10 of the 25 in the last five years as the experience, content and technology is slowly but surely improving. The first 15 years were a painful journey, to say the least.”
“The recent ones I’ve used in my home were the Apple TV (all gens), Microsoft Xbox One, NVIDIA Shield, AMD or Intel-based HTPCs (home theater PC), Roku, Boxee, Western Digital TV, Google TV, the Google TV-based Logitech Revue and Google Chromecast to name just a few,” Moorhead writes. “Therefore, in addition to being professionally inquisitive on what the next Apple TV could or should look like, but personally, as well.”
“First off, I believe the latest and greatest streamer to beat is the NVIDIA Shield console. Its supports 4K Ultra HD content, can play nearly every major provider’s content, plays games well, has a fast and fluid UI, offers upgradable storage, and has a killer voice search-enabled game controller with private listening capability. I wrote about the NVIDIA Shield here and here,” Moorhead writes. “With 25 years of DMA, now called ‘streamer,’ expectations, here is what I would like to see from Apple.”
• 4K capable: This one is simple. The future of all things video is 4K. The entire industry is moving to 4K TVs, 4K phone video capture, and 4K video services
• AirPlay upgrade with game streaming
• Cloud game streaming of AAA titles
• HomeKit gateway
• True cross catalog Siri natural language search
• Controllers: Simple, Apple Watch, iPhone, iPod, iPad as controllers
Read more in the full article – recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: If Apple has no answer for the 4K Ultra HD question — if it’s not at the very least “the hardware is capable, the content will be coming at a later date” — they’re going to get absolutely reamed in certain quarters.
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