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The Apple TV is a much better device for streaming. It's exactly what you described. The only drawback is the lack of HDMI passthrough for Plex. I have an Nvid
by pier25 2y ago
The Apple TV is a much better device for streaming. It's exactly what you described.
The only drawback is the lack of HDMI passthrough for Plex. I have an Nvidia shield just for this use case.
- natdempk 2y agoIf you are unhappy with Plex on Apple TV, check out Infuse. You have a pay a little yearly for it, but it does a much better job of supporting higher-end/advanced media features and the app is nicer than Plex. It can seamlessly connect to a Plex server as well.
- pier25 2y agoTried it but has tons of issues with audio sync because it has to decode audio to PCM. HDMI passthrough is really the only good solution.
- vladgur 2y agoInfuse is amazing even on the phone. For the amount of content I consume using it, the louse $10 per year is worth it
- nicce 2y agoI don’t buy often apps these days. In last two years, Infuse is the only one because it was that good.
- Larrikin 2y agoAndroid atleast has the possibility of being an open platform. You can install a different launcher, even if the platform makes it difficult to keep it permanent if you don't know what you are doing. There's no way to avoid it when Apple wants to advertise Apple TV shows to you.
- mynameisvlad 2y agoWell luckily the Apple TV platform has had 17 years to develop that feature and it hasn’t happened yet. Never say never and all that, but almost two decades is quite the track record.
- FireBeyond 2y agoYou mean I don't see promotional imagery on my Apple TV's homepage? News to me.
- mynameisvlad 2y agoYou mean the top part of the screen? That is up to the app developer to control. Some like YouTube use it as an image, others like Plex show the next episodes to pick up on as well as giving an option to resume playback. The Apple TV app might advertise their services, but that doesn’t mean the Apple TV platform is doing any advertising. You only see the app’s ads if you hover over it on the Home Screen and if you remove the app or move it out of the way, you no longer see its ads.
- HnUser12 2y agoYeah. For example, IIRC Disney plus doesn’t show anything there. You can also make Tv Plus app show the “up next” instead of “what you watch” in that space.
- dotancohen 2y agoLaPlace even has a formula for determining the likelihood of an event happening, that hasn't happened yet. Using LaPlace's formula, there's just about a 5% chance of Apple TV adding that misfeature in the coming year. https://aas.sh/blog/laplaces-rule-of-succession/ https://aas.sh/blog/laplaces-rule-of-succession/