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tvOS 12 Brings Dolby Atmos Support, Zero Sign-In, and TV App Improvements (macworld.com)
If you're using an Apple TV as your main streaming box, you will be happy to know several big improvements are coming to the platform. Macworld reports of what's new in tvOS 12: With tvOS 12, Dolby Atmos comes to the Apple TV 4K. All you need for full 3D immersive audio is an Atmos-supporting sound bar or receiver. This makes Apple TV 4K the only streaming media box to be certified for both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos.
One of the best features of tvOS 11 is called Single Sign-on. You add your TV provider's login information to your Apple TV device. If an app supports Single Sign-on, you can log in with your TV provider with just a few taps. It's a big step forward, but still a little bit of a pain. With tvOS 12, Apple makes the whole process totally seamless with Zero Sign-on. Here's how it works: If your TV provider is your Internet provider (a very common occurrence here in the United States), and your Apple TV is connected to the Internet through that provider, you sign in automatically to any Apple TV app your provider gives you access to. Just launch the app, and you're signed in, no passwords or configuration needed at all.
Apple's breathtaking 4K video screensavers, called "Aerials," is one of those minor delights that Apple TV 4K users can't get enough of. In tvOS 12, they get better. You can tap the remote to see the location at which the Aerial was filmed. A new set of Aerials is the star of the show, however. Called "Earth," these are stunning videos from space, taken by astronauts at the International Space Station. Furthermore, the TV app will provide live content from select TV providers; Charter Spectrum will support the app with live channels and content later this year. Apple is also now allowing third-party home control systems' remotes to control your Apple TV (including Siri).
One of the best features of tvOS 11 is called Single Sign-on. You add your TV provider's login information to your Apple TV device. If an app supports Single Sign-on, you can log in with your TV provider with just a few taps. It's a big step forward, but still a little bit of a pain. With tvOS 12, Apple makes the whole process totally seamless with Zero Sign-on. Here's how it works: If your TV provider is your Internet provider (a very common occurrence here in the United States), and your Apple TV is connected to the Internet through that provider, you sign in automatically to any Apple TV app your provider gives you access to. Just launch the app, and you're signed in, no passwords or configuration needed at all.
Apple's breathtaking 4K video screensavers, called "Aerials," is one of those minor delights that Apple TV 4K users can't get enough of. In tvOS 12, they get better. You can tap the remote to see the location at which the Aerial was filmed. A new set of Aerials is the star of the show, however. Called "Earth," these are stunning videos from space, taken by astronauts at the International Space Station. Furthermore, the TV app will provide live content from select TV providers; Charter Spectrum will support the app with live channels and content later this year. Apple is also now allowing third-party home control systems' remotes to control your Apple TV (including Siri).
And yet there is still no sign of Siri on the ATV4 for New Zealand customers.
New Zealand has Siri on their IOS and OSX devices, we do speak English (though there is some debate about that), so there is no good reason NOT to enable it.
ZOG piece of shit is probably helping them traffic children as we speak.
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I haven’t had to sign into an app for months - complaining about that would require setting a really low bar.
But I realize Apple needs to try and sell newer hardware to people.
#DeleteChrome
You are trolling. OK. But there is some truth in your missive. Anyone who wants funding just has to throw together some nonsense about gays, transgenders, women, blacks, etc. It really doesn't matter what, just anything at all, and submit it as a proposal for funding. Voila! Instant money. If you want to get paid for research, research the latest fashion. This amounts to just about anything depraved or abnormal or destructive to human society.
I dug my Apple TV1 out of the closet and put Kodi on it.
It worked ok.
Then I realized that a RPI3 runny Kodi was faster and quite good.
The ATV1 went to Goodwill.
An out of the box ATVx system is still quite inflexible to me, and I would always prefer something like Kodi that I can run software that I choose.
Zero sign-in reminds me of my first TV that I got in 1961. I could use it without having to log in to any services. All I had to do was turn it on, wait a few seconds for it to warm up, and then the picture would appear.
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apple's paying for licenses, obviously, and will want to leverage the dolby name as a 'high-end' feature... so apple tells dolby to crack down on 'lesser' products?
you still need an decoder. Comcast / directv / dish? / other cable systems also have it now.
Still no Scottish.... then Siri iOS crap.
Siri and Scottish is a thing to behold.
It's hard to read this article as it is such a gasping wankfest "little delights tvos users can't get enough of" fuck off.
fuck AppleTV
Youâ(TM)ve reached a point in your life where you publicly nod your head in agreement with the latest GNAA missive. Sad!
Maan, this must be a sad world indeed, compared to most 21st century peoples' TV computers.
I said 21st century, not 20th. Unless this new update has sabnzbdplus integration, I think they are still trying to catch up to last decade. Good grief, how do people tolerate this luddite shit?
On the bright side, the summary also mentions that these computers have screensavers! So we really are getting into late 20th century tech, and that means Apple TVs should become recognizable to, and usable by, modern people within 10 years.
All you need for full 3D immersive audio is an Atmos-supporting sound bar
Sound bars are no match for separate speakers, so they're not "all you need."
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.