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Amazon Prime Video App Launches on Apple TV (slashdot.org)
Six months after Apple chief executive Tim Cook said Amazon's Prime Video service would be coming to Apple TV, the much anticipated on-demand video streaming service has arrived on tvOS. Similar to other versions of Amazon Prime Video, the Apple TV app allows Prime subscribers to sign into their accounts and watch Amazon Prime exclusive TV series, as well as browse a collection of movies.
And yet we still can't watch Amazon Prime Video on the Roku in Canada, even though the service launched about a year ago.
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But...using two devices to get to your films is a pain. I have iTunes-bought stuff, I have a Fire stick, and I have ripped stuff. I just wanted one device to access all three - previously couldn't get that, now I can.
Apple has sold something like 25 million AppleTVs.
Odds are pretty good that a lot of those people have Amazon Prime, too.
Here's a negative comment about this: how about those of us who bought an early version of the Apple TV?
Where's the Amazon app for the 2nd and 3rd-generation Apple TV?
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Not all those 25 million units run tvOS, only the latest model.
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Here, have a non-anonymous post identifying Apple as a shit stained marketing operation.
I remember the Mac TV. It was a 90's thing. That wobbly old Mac environment on a Tee Vee set for the living room.
It was a truly sad thing.
https://twitter.com/jh32488/st...
“Amazon is coming to the TV app and all Apple TVs later this year with Amazon Prime Video” - @tim_cook tick tock guys it’s December cc:@amazon
Let's just assume he meant "except the first generation, of course"...
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Apple has still sold a few million of the latest ATV and there are people like me who have been weighing buying one to consolidate all my (Apple centric) media on one device instead of using less elegant all in one solutions or multiple boxes.
With the ATV now supporting 4K, every service I am interested in and not botching the HDR anymore, it becomes a much more compelling option.
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
Apple AND Amazon together? Shit, if we could get Google and Facebook involved, the suckers could give away all of their information while watching TV.
I don't respond to AC's.
You definitely should. Paying $200 for Apple to track you is well worth it. And next year when the next model comes out you can repeat.
Yep, XB1 for me. More expensive than AppleTV, but games!
Maybe, never saw the need for an Apple TV myself. PS4 does everything it can do, including with HDR, Netflix, Prime, etc. plus many things it cannot, like games (obviously), but also bluray, DVD, and VR. With only 100 dollars difference in the price, it was no competition.
The Youtube client on my Fire TV Stick has been popping up a notice saying I won't be able to use it after 1/1. Are they changing APIs to something that requires a newer Android? Anyway, I guess I'll just have to use the client in Kodi, but that's even worse than using the official client.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Here's one thing the Apple TV can do that a game console cannot:
https://www.extremetech.com/wp...
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While the PS4 is good (maybe even great) at those things, it lacks the simplicity that the Apple TV offers. My wife and kids (4 & 6) have no issues navigating the UI on the Apple TV, switching profiles, etc. Things get a bit more complicated with the PS4, and lord help them if I left a game running. If it was just me, I would not have the need for the Apple TV.
Most people who have Amazon Prime probably access the content using an Amazon device like FireTV.
Who wants yet another device and remote? I would say some do, but MOST?
It's a great little device and is priced a LOT lower than Apple TV.
It has also fewer and less interesting apps than the AppleTV has.
Plus, you don't have to go through the pain that is iTunes.
Which is not a thing on the AppleTV either.
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You know it's truly sad when all an Apple fanboy has left is the "power draw" argument.
Without being tied to the Apple walled garden I can pretty much use any device on the market for streaming. Apple is kind of last to the party here.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
That graph is only of interest to residents of Hawaii. Electricity in the USA is priced in a way that doesn't make it at all surprising that they have one of the largest energy uses per household in the world.
They've got a reasonable catalog but their game-console software is clunky, statically sized, a pain to navigate, truncates descriptions, and is slow. I'll stay on Netflix and Hulu when I can. Hulu has gone from a passable interface to very sleek and usable in the past few months, they used to be in my "sure, if you want to" category to right there next to Netflix. I was extremely happy they stopped trying to cram "clips" down my throat every time I wanted to search for full version of anything.
I use Amazon on both the PS3 and the Wii. The PS3 obviously is better but damn, all I want to do is watch the Tick and get out. The fact they use bait and dump tactics with Prime programming and make it difficult to just look at certain types of selections (for instance I don't want TV shows shoved at me non-stop while looking for movies) and the search function sucks-ass.
For what Amazon does right they sure do screw up their streaming.
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Here, have another non-anonymous post identifying Apple as a shit stained marketing operation.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
I have a BlueRay on my ISP's media box so no need for another. I haven't had a game console since the original Xbox as I found out long long ago that immersive games just made me nauseous (&VR is worse), so that's $100 too much.
Afaik, Airplay only works on the PS4 through Universal Media Streamer, a _Java_ app with imperfect Airplay support. My ISP's media box already has imperfect airplay support so again not at all what I'm looking for.
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
But for the hundreds of millions that _are_ in the walled garden and appreciate not having to waste time twiddling to make X work with Y, the ATV is now a compelling option.
You know, blowing off power draw as an advantage makes you look like a Trump voting, Coal Rolling American. After changing every lightbulb in the house, I'm NOT going to buy the game console that brings nothing I want compared to the ATV with conspicuously more heat & noise.
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
Really? People in California _didn't_ have brown-outs a few years ago & Puerto-Rico _isn't_ in the U.S.A.?
Many people in the U.S.A. _do_ care about limiting their use of electricity.
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
Snort, You an android user by any chance?
It's funny how those who have accepted certain evils (ex: Android user tracking by Google) like to accuse those (like Apple) who don't do that. I suppose that when one beats ones wife, one thinks that everyone must beat their wives too.
I don't have an ATV. Waiting to see if my ISP's new media box that should be coming out soon does everything I want. If I decide to buy an ATV it'll be knowing that it does what I want when I buy it.
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
Except there's no app store for the 3rd generation Apple TV, so you can't know that from the Apple TV itself.
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If your home is cold then you should be mining Monero or something!
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I wasn't giving the power draw as an argument for using an Apple TV, I was using that as an argument that using a console for streaming is a waste of power.
Besides, consoles suck, I prefer my mid-range Windows PC for gaming and yes it requires more power than an Xbox One or a PS4 because it doesn't suck and doesn't require a fucking gamepad with lame thumbsticks.
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I'm Canadian. Electricity prices in the USA make me laugh, the source of electricity generation doubly so.
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I thought that was typo but every news outlet is saying it will support ATV3. This is excellent news. I bought 3 third gen ATVs for $59 after the 4th was announced.
I didn't care about the apps available for the 4th gen and I'm running PlexConnect to have a "native" Plex app. The few freely accessible network apps that aren't available for the ATV3 I can get via Plex channels.
An article about Apple that has literally no negative connotations. .
Even though it'll be hard to twist this post into an anti-Apple argument, vigilant posters will find a way.
You mean like This:
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Or This:
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or even This:
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Howabout This?:
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Or This:
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Then there's This:
https://apple.slashdot.org/com... ...and like that (tired of scrolling).
Here's a negative comment about this: how about those of us who bought an early version of the Apple TV?
Where's the Amazon app for the 2nd and 3rd-generation Apple TV?
Well, not 2nd; but apparently they are pushing this out to the 3rd gen Apple TVs.
I suppose you know it when the app just shows up on your Apple TV
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
If you have (ahem) backed up your own legally owned DVD and Blurays, check out the app Infuse on both iOS and tvOS. It plays everything we throw at it that is stored on our server. Costs around $15-20 but it the best money you'll spend for that functionality.
Trolling is a art,
Thanks for the reference, I'll look it up if I buy an ATV.
I've got a major Plex installation with a few dozen Tb on a Local Drobo (local only - I don't use Plex subscriptions but I've got a Home Lab with a true Firewall+VPN that gives those I trust access to it). Plex Apps/Web suffices for all accesses to that
My TV has apps for Plex, Netflix, Amazon Prime but that leaves my ISP's media box and all local programming out in the cold.
I'd like to move to the single screen + remote that I hope I will be able to get with an ATV.
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
We're almost at the single screen-remote you speak of on our AppleTV; major networks news apps, YouTube, Netflix, Tablo (see below), etc. I can't get my girlfriend to get rid of cable TV yet, though we're down to the basic $25 cheap package. All the stuff she watches we can see on HD OTA or I can auto-download via Sonarr, but she can't seem to completely untether herself.
:)
We have an antenna on the roof (with 5 local HD channels). Recently picked up one of those Tablo devices that are gaining in popularity. It now records any shows she wants from OTA and can play live or recorded TV to the AppleTV via a decent app with a guide and everything.
I only have ~15 TB of stuff on a NAS4Free box. We should trade...
Trolling is a art,
I'm living in France so our needs do diverge somewhat.
For OTA, my wife still uses my ISP's media box but the remote is long dead so we need to use an old ipad because HDMI CEC doesn't turn the media box on half the time.
The ATV HDMI CEC is much better from what I've heard so turning on the ATV when turning on the TV, using the TV's remote & then having the TV turn off the ATV should work fine.
There is a free app for both my TV & the ATV that has all the french TV channels, but changing channels sets it back to SDTV for a few seconds & there is no way to set the desired language on shows that are broadcast in more than just French.
With our ISP's media box one can use VLC to watch TV (it uses the same video feed as the multimedia box) and one can select among the different audio tracks available.
On the ATV there is another app that works just like VLC so I'd finally have a single screen/remote...
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
There is still no Spotify app on Apple TV - some indications that they are working on it, but nothing materialised. In principle I can use my iphone and ipad and stream the music through the apple tv to my hifi, but it would be elegant to have a dedicated app. Hope we'll see it one day.
Now I do have the answer: the app installed itself later that morning. From what I've read it's only for the 3rd generation Apple TV, though.
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No they don't. The word you are looking for is "few". If it as infact "many" then the USA wouldn't hold that dubious title it holds.
People care about complaining to the government that their power is unreliable and that energy saving bulbs contain teh mercuries.
Unless you can point to something more serious than "I think that", no. As you're making the claim that "only a few" people in the U.S. care about limiting their use of electricity, prove it.
> I can point to the cited areas where limiting ones use of electricity brings concrete benefits and the sales figures of LED light fixtures.
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
The tvOS app has an issue wit playing surround sound, It onlu comes out as sterio, amazon are avare of it and according to costumer service are working on it. As a temorary fix they have removed the 5.1 tag om all media in the app I contacted them to call theier bluff here is what i got back "Please be assured, the tags are being removed temporarily. The issue will be fixed as soon as possible"
Energy consumption speaks for itself. Consumption per household is directly correlated to the amount of electricity consumed per household in most countries.
I'm not going to point to anything, you can look up the well known fact that USA households are incredibly wasteful yourself. But I'm willing to listen if you have some kind of psychological explanation to how the USA gets that wasteful if what you think is actually the case, ... you know kind of like the massive increase in large car sales as a result of the dropping oil price in the last 2 years. I'm keen to see if you can point to an example of most people on the whole not selflessly exploiting their available opportunities, specifically cheap electricity and cheap oil. The wealth of USA statics on the matter currently speaks against it.
So, when asked to produce references to support your position, you give none & double down on "I think that"...
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
Nope. I'm doubling down on not arguing with religious extremists. I will provide a cite, you'll reference some small thing you don't like about it, I'll provide another one you'll rinse and repeat because you have formed an opinion and will defend it to the end.
The only way you will change your mind is if you research it yourself and come up with the conclusions yourself. Even then you will likely defend your original opinion in public because that's what stubborn humans do.
What I think is not relevant to you. I put forward a clear and testable logic that can be checked with the most simple of correlations. Rather than argue about the source and quality of data you can fill in the blanks yourself. Don't expect everything to be fed to you just so you can continue an argument.