Despite being a physical media fan I often stream movies and TV Shows. For the past year and a half I have used the Apple TV 4K to do this. In this video I give you my straightforward thoughts on it and why I use it over my TV’s built in apps.
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00:00 Intro
01:26 Interface
03:32 Remote
05:55 Picture
08:46 Audio
09:53 Features
12:50 Conclusion
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One thing no one seems to have mentioned is it’s portable. We take ours on holiday with us. Plug it into the tv, connect to the resorts WiFi and hay presto, all your stuff whilst your away, and no paying for tv upgrades in the lodge etc.
Just ordered it for my slow LG G3😊
I missed that it uses the passwords from ur phone to sign in on the apps on Apple TV
Maybe I’ve been unlucky and It’s a shame , because Apple TV box is technically the most powerful streaming box in the market , better picture and sound features than the rest and so fast. I wanted to keep it but structurally the remote is shit and breaks or in my experience it has broken twice through buggy software or hardware. . I’ve had to return two Apple TV boxes now within six months to Amazon which confirmed they both have faults which is not my doing. Maybe I’ve been unlucky, but this has been my experience. They have now offered me a full refund. I won’t be getting another Apple TV box again.
Yes I had Apple TV HD since 2016, this year changed it to 4K 3rd gen 128 gb, and frankly all Apple TVs are great, and last forever, even my Apple TV HD still worked pretty fine and got regular updates
Since I got my first 4K in 2017 and now I’m on the 3rd gen 4K I’d never go back to to apps or stream with anything else!
Apple TV 4K is well worth it. Have owned it from more than 6 years and easily love it over a Roku. You can rent films in clear 4K quality for $3-4 on Apple TV or Prime video. Really great to to have.
Nice video. Thanks. I'll answer your question at the end of the video before asking you two of my own.
I've used iPhone and iPad for many years now and Apple Watch since the pandemic but have never bought an Apple TV. It came onto my radar a couple of weeks ago and after some research and watching quite a few videos like this I'm 100% getting one but there's one huge elephant in the room right now (now is currently 8th August 2025).
There are numerous rumours from multiple sources that Apple is releasing an updated Apple TV before the end of the year, maybe even as soon as at the next iPhone launch now strongly rumoured to be on 9th September. Quite a few of those rumours even claim that as well as spec bumps Apple might lower the prices perhaps to get the basic WiFi-only model back below $100. I'm waiting for that new release because I haven't seen a single source debunking those rumours so I think it's pretty definitely happening and after years of not buying one I can't bring myself to jump in potentially only a few weeks away from a big (3 yearly) product refresh.
My fairly simple questions for you are….
1 – You say that the remote has a power button on top and that you've only needed to charge it 2 or 3 times since you got it. Is that because you are good at remembering to power it off at the end of the day or do you leave it on all the time presumably because it goes into standby after a while and maybe gets woken up via an accelerometer detecting motion so the power-off button is really only to do a reset/reboot or if you are going away for a few months for instance?
2 – You say that the Apple TV app doesn't pick up Netflix content for continue watching etc. Does that imply that the Siri voice search also doesn't get access to stuff in Netflix or do the Siri search results include Netflix content if appropriate?