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...
_My_ kids saw me spending weeks Ripping all my DVD's & CD's so that we could watch/listen without having to search for waylaid disks (as in why is this CD in this case & where is the disk that was supposed to be here. As I continued to buy new physical content and just backed it up to digital storage, they could see that the objective was NOT to rip-off the authors but to digitize what we purchase.
DRM on EBooks is the main reason I either purchase content that is already non-DRM encumbered or, If I cannot find it without DRM, I purchase it in a DRM scheme that has been broken (Kindle eBooks) & convert the DRM'ed content to a non-encumbered format (EPubs with Calibre. I then delete the DRM encumbered copy.
Apple's Fairplay not having been broken, it's DRM makes it impossible to do so, so I don't buy eBooks through Apple.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'd prefer it if they weren't hypocritically targeting foreign companies. The taxes that Total is avoiding paying are higher than those for Apple. Potholes don't care who paid the taxes to fix them.
If your sentiment that the reason for the protests were that french people desire companies to pay their taxes were true, they would have been protesting in Total gas stations. The problem is that Total, (who owes more money in taxes to the French Government) Is French so it wouldn't be popular. Muuch better to target that foreign Apple company...
The Tesla will not be in earth orbit. It won't even be in Mars orbit. No orbital insertion burn into Mars orbit is possible as there is no third stage & the FH second stage will have long since died. Thus it'll be in orbit around the sun in an orbit somewhere between the Earth and Mars with virtually no chance of becoming a problem -- any more than the hundreds of thousands of like sized asteroids that occupy that space.
The only people defending Putin's wars of conquest, rape and plunder are the patin-bots. Spout the putin-bot feces & be labeled a patin-bot with the rest of them.
Oh look! _Another_ putin-bot spouting the same feces as the last one.
Snort, transparent russian self-justifications for murder, rapine and plunder. You forgot to claim that the Ukrainian Government shot down MK17 & how Litveneko was poisoned by the CIA.
Go back to reading/writing RT. Or better yet, sleep around as much as you can, now that the KGB lie that AIDS virus is a myth has caught fire in russia & new infection rates are exploding, karma may come your way.
Snort, transparent russian self-justifications for murder, rapine and plunder. You forgot to claim that the Ukrainian Government shot down MK17 & how Litveneko was poisoned by the CIA.
"If the Russian government comes to me and asks me to do anything wrong, I will move the business out of Russia."
Putin has invaded both Georgia & the Ukraine and executed a former ally in London with radioactive poison. Yet Kaspersky expects us to believe that he could just pick up roots and move his company out of Russia? The credibility stretching involved to be able to believe that is bigger than the sun.
The Saturn V was also a hand built assemblage of unique components for each launch. Yes, there were no S5 launch failures but that could have easily become the case had they continued to launch. The manual brazings for on the injector & nozzle for the F1 were impressive feats that I really wouldn't want to count upon for high reliability.
The people who will need HDMI 2.1 in anything under 5 years are vanishingly rare. By that time it will certainly be better and cheaper to use DisplayPort. Thus the HDMI 2.1 specification is of very little use other than enriching the members of HDMI Licensing LLC.
Elsewhere in this thread I’ve said that DisplayPort is generally (but not always) technologically superior to HDMI. If the past is any guide, by the time that they have actual HDMI 2.1 cards & screens, DisplayPort 1.5 cards and screens will have been selling for 6 months.
Who are _you_ to decide that _I_ need yet another HDMI version when the use of the _current_ HDMI versions brings absolutely no benefit? People who need 10K are generally using computer generated content and should be preferring DisplayPort which is generally technically superior and don't force everyone to pay obligatory licensing fees like HDMI does.
What makes you think that HDMI (which because it has mandatory monetary licensing is better than DisplayPort, which is technically superior and because it doesn't have the mandatory licensing is also cheaper?
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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...
_My_ kids saw me spending weeks Ripping all my DVD's & CD's so that we could watch/listen without having to search for waylaid disks (as in why is this CD in this case & where is the disk that was supposed to be here. As I continued to buy new physical content and just backed it up to digital storage, they could see that the objective was NOT to rip-off the authors but to digitize what we purchase.
DRM on EBooks is the main reason I either purchase content that is already non-DRM encumbered or, If I cannot find it without DRM, I purchase it in a DRM scheme that has been broken (Kindle eBooks) & convert the DRM'ed content to a non-encumbered format (EPubs with Calibre. I then delete the DRM encumbered copy.
Apple's Fairplay not having been broken, it's DRM makes it impossible to do so, so I don't buy eBooks through Apple.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And the whataboutist Uberbah shill makes it’s apparition with self pronouncements of papal indisputability
Why, so you would have someone to talk to? Your puerile "I don't understand so you're the problem" bores everyone.
I'd prefer it if they weren't hypocritically targeting foreign companies. The taxes that Total is avoiding paying are higher than those for Apple. Potholes don't care who paid the taxes to fix them.
Note that I'm French.
If your sentiment that the reason for the protests were that french people desire companies to pay their taxes were true, they would have been protesting in Total gas stations. The problem is that Total, (who owes more money in taxes to the French Government) Is French so it wouldn't be popular. Muuch better to target that foreign Apple company...
If third grade reading is too complicated for you go back to second grade.
No, downmod both the GPP & zilym's for idiocy.
The Tesla will not be in earth orbit. It won't even be in Mars orbit. No orbital insertion burn into Mars orbit is possible as there is no third stage & the FH second stage will have long since died. Thus it'll be in orbit around the sun in an orbit somewhere between the Earth and Mars with virtually no chance of becoming a problem -- any more than the hundreds of thousands of like sized asteroids that occupy that space.
The only people defending Putin's wars of conquest, rape and plunder are the patin-bots. Spout the putin-bot feces & be labeled a patin-bot with the rest of them.
Ohhh look, junior puzzled his way through a very slightly complicated sentence. We hope that one day he'll be reading at the third grade level....
Oh look! _Another_ putin-bot spouting the same feces as the last one.
Snort, transparent russian self-justifications for murder, rapine and plunder. You forgot to claim that the Ukrainian Government shot down MK17 & how Litveneko was poisoned by the CIA.
Go back to reading/writing RT. Or better yet, sleep around as much as you can, now that the KGB lie that AIDS virus is a myth has caught fire in russia & new infection rates are exploding, karma may come your way.
Snort, transparent russian self-justifications for murder, rapine and plunder. You forgot to claim that the Ukrainian Government shot down MK17 & how Litveneko was poisoned by the CIA.
Go back to reading/writing RT.
"If the Russian government comes to me and asks me to do anything wrong, I will move the business out of Russia."
Putin has invaded both Georgia & the Ukraine and executed a former ally in London with radioactive poison. Yet Kaspersky expects us to believe that he could just pick up roots and move his company out of Russia? The credibility stretching involved to be able to believe that is bigger than the sun.
The Saturn V was also a hand built assemblage of unique components for each launch. Yes, there were no S5 launch failures but that could have easily become the case had they continued to launch. The manual brazings for on the injector & nozzle for the F1 were impressive feats that I really wouldn't want to count upon for high reliability.
You might find remedial reading courses helpful.
The people who will need HDMI 2.1 in anything under 5 years are vanishingly rare. By that time it will certainly be better and cheaper to use DisplayPort. Thus the HDMI 2.1 specification is of very little use other than enriching the members of HDMI Licensing LLC.
Elsewhere in this thread I’ve said that DisplayPort is generally (but not always) technologically superior to HDMI. If the past is any guide, by the time that they have actual HDMI 2.1 cards & screens, DisplayPort 1.5 cards and screens will have been selling for 6 months.
That is indeed an exception but I still fail to see why HDMI is superior to DisplayPort for this.
Who are _you_ to decide that _I_ need yet another HDMI version when the use of the _current_ HDMI versions brings absolutely no benefit? People who need 10K are generally using computer generated content and should be preferring DisplayPort which is generally technically superior and don't force everyone to pay obligatory licensing fees like HDMI does.
What makes you think that HDMI (which because it has mandatory monetary licensing is better than DisplayPort, which is technically superior and because it doesn't have the mandatory licensing is also cheaper?