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Kilometers Davis posted:Could someone give me the rundown on why Plex is a thing I should start paying attention to? It's really nice because it plays anything you have. I've got ripped DVD's, ripped blu-rays, and stuff I've backed on Kickstarter that gave me .mov, mpg, and .mkv containers, and Plex just handles them all and gives you a beautiful, easy-to-use, and very Apple-ish way to watch them all.
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Mahoning posted:I ordered it around 10:30am ET Monday. Mine also updated and I paid for the extra-swift shipping. I figure they are probably going to try and overnight everyone in the first wave since they obviously didn't sell out like they would on a bigger launch like iPhones or Apple Watch.
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Xabi posted:Will Plex help me watch all the juicy (and legal) content I have stored on my computers? Without the delay ufarn is talking about? Or will I have to find some other solution for that kind of behaviour? I am usually hypersensitive to delays in audio, and I have not seen this behavior using Plex right now on my ATV3 with the files served off my Mac Mini ... so I would assume a native plugin will work even better. The only thing I ever saw it choke on was some 10-bit encoded fansubs, and that was a couple years ago. Those same files work fine now. Kenderama fucked around with this message at 12:30 on Oct 28, 2015 |
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Btw, looks like Best Buy will have the new ATV on Nov 4th.
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noirstronaut posted:It will be on sale in stores this Friday In Apple Stores, especially. http://9to5mac.com/2015/10/28/apple-stores-to-start-selling-new-apple-tv-on-friday/ Think I'll just sleep in and get mine when the Fedex guy shows up at 11:59:59am.
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Feenix posted:I got the pre-noon too, because I am an impatient man child. My birthday is saturday so dammit, I want to have the whole day to play with new apps, and Siri and have it not suck. That's all I ask for. 
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Oct 28, 2015 22:37
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Feenix posted:Happy early Birthday! Thanks. http://simplex.video Yeah, SimPlex looks really good. Because of how they just 're-did' Plex Player, I'm afraid the Plex dudes are going to PlexPass the app for the first month and thereby give up a ton of sales. Edit: Nice, he just announced SimPlex is ready for sale as of just 2 minutes ago. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/187382/simplex-a-native-3rd-party-plex-client-for-the-new-apple-tv-4th-gen/p8
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Feenix posted:I bought PlexPass (jus Monthly) this month so I could get Plexing immediately. No big loss, but yes I await any kind of GOOD Plexperience. (<--- Oh poo poo!) (I see what you did there.) I honestly have been thinking about a PlexPass - it's a drat fine program and deserves support. It's just with using it only on my Certificate-Helped Apple TV it never seemed worth it since it only really gave me a client for my Xbox -- that I won't use
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Oh yeah they are staying. Some may be supplanted by more powerful ones though. I know the NHL one is going to be replaced like the MLB one is.
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The first media reviews are rolling out. http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/28/9631652/apple-tv-2015-walt-mossberg-review quote:While Apple TV is the last of the leading streaming boxes to have voice search (even Comcast’s X1 cable boxes have voice search), I tested it against the voice searches in the Roku 4 and the Amazon Fire TV and found it superior. Now, all it needs is to cross-search among many more apps, especially YouTube. Great! This is good! quote:Much more annoying, to me, was the inability to restore apps and settings from your old Apple TV. Channels you liked and have used before have to be fetched again from the app store. And, for those which require signing in, you have to do it all over again. Apple TV may now be an iOS device, but it’s the only one that doesn’t let you restore. Apple counters that this is because it’s the first Apple TV with iOS, so there’s no backup from which to restore, and hints that it’s working on this for the future. Ugh. So it sounds like, unlike I said earlier, you'll still have some of the old channels, but you'll have to redownload them, re-sign into them. Not a huge deal, I guess. but ... quote:And, as good as Siri has become, it feels limited on this device. It needs to work on all or most of the apps, not a few. It doesn’t even work in the Apple Music app. And it’s odd that it can’t handle all the queries that it can on an iPhone, or speak to you. So it's a standard, Apple, first-gen product. For the early adopters, and people who are tolerant and use the Apple store and ecosystem - it's a good, probably best choice. But it isn't the smooth, letter-and-font-perfection we would come to expect from Apple on a finished product. I think we'll see Siri improve a lot behind the scenes as the service matures - but again, I'm one of the tolerant Apple fanboys who love first gen products.
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Oct 29, 2015 03:11
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Yeah but it's a new ecosystem. Like going from the original iPhone to one with an App Store.
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priznat posted:True indeed. I was hazy on the actual store release date, just had heard that online orders should arrive Friday etc. The stores will be "shuffled" a bit thursday night so as to present the new AppleTV as a featured product friday morning. And a couple new news updates: Apple posted:... it will add Apple Music compatibility to the set-top box's voice activated Siri search feature in an update early next year. Australian orders are shipping. -- Mine isn't for Michigan - and I tried the track by reference tricks too. Kenderama fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Oct 29, 2015 |
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Duckman2008 posted:So reading the reviews, are you able to use the remote app on your iPhone as a control like on the one just mentioned you couldn't use your keyboard on your phone, which would be a weird feature to cut. No one has mentioned it - however since the remote uses Bluetooth, the iPhone you set it up with does and you can get keyboards, mice, and trackpads that do it.. I would assume it's still there. Only thing I've seen is you can't use Siri to dictate into search fields (like in Youtube once you hit Search you have to hunt and peck instead of voice-pushing it). Oh and BBC says they will be launching iPlayer "in the coming months" as well.
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Kilometers Davis posted:So grabbing one of these at Best Buy tomorrow is definitely not happening, right? Best Buy would be next week. Apple Stores tomorrow --- which I might do if my shipping gets delayed.
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Mahoning posted:They didn't HAVE to, but they also didn't know that. These all coming Fedex?
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echobucket posted:Can someone post a screenshot of what the new "Computers" interface looks like for Home Sharing? Size difference is interesting.  Here's some of the Computers/Home Sharing interface looks like.    Kenderama fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Oct 30, 2015 |
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TheJoker138 posted:Any idea why my phone isn't seeing this in the remote app? Home sharing is turned on. I have the same problem. I'm betting on a Remote App app-version update soon. Minidust posted:Thanks for that! Sorry to be a bother but could you (or anyone) get a shot of what the shared music playback looks like? I've been checking review videos for this but every one just focuses on the remote and Siri and it's driving me nuts haha. Here's a really shaky/crappy hand-held video of me playing a song off of home sharing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9ND-2u3CTk Martytoof posted:Yeah, I had to pull down Youtube. I saw an NHL app - looked like the old one though - can get a screenshot or two if you want. Martytoof posted:And the SimPlex video app is just giving me a white screen. Ah the joys of being an early adopter I can see my content but nothing plays. I should go check for a Media Server update now that I think about it.. He/the author posted a couple possible fixes for common issues here: http://simplex.video/troubleshooting/ FWIW, if anyone wants to see anything about the interface, or screenshots or lovely videos, I'll take requests for the next hour or so.
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Martytoof posted:Are you guys in the USA or Canadian app store? I'm going to laugh if it's only available in the American one. USA. Also update on Simple X -- once I updated my Media Center on my Mac Mini to current everything plays freaking flawlessly now.
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An item for the FAQ: Legacy AppleTV remotes WILL work with the new AppleTV. Just no Siri, touchpad, etc. But as directional buttons, play/pause, etc. they work fine!
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Ugh. Just tried downloading Asphalt 8 to see what it looks like. It's been "DOWNLOADING BUNDLE" for 8 minutes, and I have a 75meg cable DL. I have to assume that is a one-time load. Edit: Ow then two minutes to load the next race I think I'd rather just play Forza on the xbox anyways. ;-)
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Oct 30, 2015 18:34
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Here is the BAD news - official from AppleCare on the phone. "New AppleTV does not take it's input from the Remote App (iOS or WatchOS - I asked) and not sure if it is going to." I complained loudly and asked they pass that upwards. But gently caress whoever's decision that was. Some of us have 14 character passwords. :/
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Feenix posted:Of course it' going to. Grunt level phone operators never know poo poo about future plans. They just fix what they can and keep you from expecting something they aren't sure will happen. It's just irritating at the moment. I mean my shiny Apple Watch is now useless as well! 
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Feenix posted:My audio is controlled out of a receiver and the volume buttons do nothing. :\ You have to set that up in the menu, and if your receiver supports the HDMI standards, it'll do it's thing. http://support.apple.com/appletv/home-theater http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/10/30/how-to-control-your-tv-volume-with-the-new-apple-tv-siri-remote Pretty F'ing cool - when I put the ATV to sleep with the remote, it also powers down my TV and Receiver. With that and the ability to control the volume, I don't need my Harmony unless I want to start the Xbox Feenix posted:Anyone have the Simplex App? I respect that it mirrors the AppleTv UI, but Plex's themes are dark. And like I said, my not-at-all-old Plasma TV buzzes the brighter/whiter the screen gets. Simple X basically is a slightly darker version of what you already see on the AppleTV, but Plex-ified... I didn't see any theme support - you may have to wait for later versions or an official Plex App for that. Main Window / Simple X below:  mediaphage posted:Not saying it isn't a pain, but I assume (dangerously, maybe) that the new ATV supports bluetooth keyboards just like the last one? Maybe. I don't have one to check with, unfortunately. But since it tried to mate with my bluetooth soundbar, I'd say likely.
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Mahoning posted:I'm having a problem with my ATV turning my television back on after I've powered everything down for the night. Twice now I've gone to bed, gone to the bathroom and noticed a light coming from downstairs, only to go down and realize the tv is back on. Are you Airplaying to it? I noticed this morning that when I powered up my laptop and downloaded a media file for iTunes to play, it defaulted to it's last setup ... which was to airplay the audio to the home theater. So ATV, TV, Receiver... everything powered up and poo poo started rocking. It was kinda cool, kind of annoying.
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Well, that was nice of Apple. At least we can see what's on top now: (And for non games, it's Simple X ... at least till more people find Plex is out.) http://9to5mac.com/2015/11/02/apple-tv-top-charts-apps/
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Any trip reports on how Plex handles different file types? I have a Mac Mini server running it - it handles everything I've thrown at it. mov, mkv, mp4, mp2, avi, , .ts and I think FLV.
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GutBomb posted:Is there a trick to scrubbing through a video in plex? I can't get it to work with either remote. My harmony remote just takes me back to the menu when I do ffw or rwd. The new atv remote won't let me slide around at all. Just pauses, moves the cursor, the snaps back to where it was when I started moving it. I haven't had that problem - can even use Siri to forward / back a number of seconds or minutes. I really hate to say this, but try restarting the ATV through the menus (not just sleep/awake, but actually restart) and see if that clears it up?
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Rick Sanchez posted:Yeah, this thing is pretty awesome. I don't use Plex and mostly use Apple TV for Netflix, Hulu and HBO, so this update is really perfect for me. I agree with most of this - the speed increase is noticeable and very welcome.
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gypsyshred posted:Lets say I own a movie on iTunes. With the new gen and the hard drive, can I download that movie, extras and all, and watch it somewhere with no internet? You can't download a movie to the AppleTV. You could take your laptop, download the video to iTunes (or Plex media server) and then use an ad-hoc network between ATV and server to play it. Has anyone had issues with playback 'freezing' but audio keeps going? Last night I was trying to watch Casino Royale from the iTunes store and 5 times the video would freeze, and audio would continue. Eventually we'd get "An error has occurred loading this content"... and I'm wondering if it is ATV or the stream, or cable. I've not seen that behavior before.
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flosofl posted:I have to believe this is Coming SoonTM. It's too useful of an idea not to. If they can get other manufacturers on board I'd get it in a heartbeat. To be honest, all I'd want is integration with Honeywell/Nest for HVAC and something along the lines of controlling Phillips HUE lights. Sadly you're never going to see that with Nest -- not since Google bought them - however I just switched from NEST to Ecobee's new thermostat which IS homekit-enabled and that is pretty cool. (And the added bonus of deploying remote sensors for different rooms of your house is kickass.)
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tvOS 9.0.1 is out. Wish me luck! http://9to5mac.com/2015/11/09/apple-tv-tvos-software-update/ Kenderama fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Nov 9, 2015 |
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Oh bite me. Oh the upside the ATV updated nice and fast and didn't seem to break anything.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:After a week with this, I absolutely love it. I haven't encountered any of the weirdness anyone else in this thread is reporting, fortunately. My usage is limited to Plex, HBO Go and WatchESPN, all of which work great. We've all been there with the password. I have the same formula for Google / YouTube.Ever since the last update my ATV has been rock steady.
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I just updated the ATV and holy gently caress is it faster. A very noticeable speed improvement loading apps and going from like TV to Movies - all the art and stuff just slams into place.
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noirstronaut posted:I'm still debating if I want a new Apple TV. What is everyone doing with theirs that they didn't do on the old one? Enjoying the speedy response, the new Siri remote, Apple Music, and native Plex.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Is the 32GB sufficient if I don't plan on gaming? On average how large are the TV apps like ESPN, FOX, Hulu, etc? 32 should be fine unless you want to have every game out there installed. I bought at 64 at launch, but when I went to upgrade my bedroom one, I just did an Open Box (at Best Buy - $129!) deal for a 32 gig.  As you can see, each app is pretty small.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:So my latest gen ATV is now starting to just go to a blank display right in the middle of watching something. Only pulling the power and plugging it back in brings the video back. Is this a new feature or do I have something wrong with mine? Sounds like a synch issue with HDMI. Try replacing the cable, then do a restore on your ATV, then call Apple.
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Feenix posted:I'm very disappointed at how non-working the automation-via-Apple TV as a hub is. Can you give some examples? For instance my Hue lights (the porch one anyways) turn on at Sunset and off at Sunrise like clockwork.
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