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In addition to the sibling comment, it also: - Comes with a simple remote control which in addition to controlling the AppleTV also allows muting and changing
by jonathanlydall 2y ago
In addition to the sibling comment, it also:
- Comes with a simple remote control which in addition to controlling the AppleTV also allows muting and changing the volume of your TV. As someone who uses my TV exclusively with the AppleTV this means my TV's remote simply sits in a cupboard.
- If you have an iPhone you can use it as a remote over WiFi, I do this all the time to turn off the TV from a room over when the kids need to stop watching. The iPhone can also act as a remote keyboard which can be very convenient for text input.
- The voice search feature works very well in my experience. The remote has a mic in it and you simply hold one button and dictate what you're searching for and 99% of the time for me it works perfectly.
- It's very fast and responsive, allows quick and easy switching between apps.
- It's popular such that any streaming provider probably has an app for it.
- skydhash 2y agoAlso, Infuse, which is a nice app for playing video files over the network and support Jellyfin, Plex, and others. It also have Dolby and DTS decoders, which works great as the box only have PCM output.
- int_19h 2y agoI should note that, when it comes to remote, one downside of Apple TV is that you can have at most one official remote paired to it at the same time. If you want two remotes for convenience, there are some third-party remotes that effectively present themselves as Bluetooth keyboards, but you lose some of the features with them, and they are usually flimsy plastic.