Apple TV 4K (New)

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12 points·tosh··6 comments

I'm a little surprised at the price (especially when their newly-announced HomeView is the same price, and it has a screen!).

I love this product: it's the one box I can (reasonably) trust to not be mining my viewing habits for data. I have two older ones and was looking to get something that supported 4K but waited for this to come out.

$300 might be a decent price if you use it for all of the things that it can do, but if all you're doing is launching streaming apps, $200 was already on the high end for that. $300 seems...a bit much.

Anything I'm missing here? The silver lining is that this product is almost certainly still in the "pay money then forget about it for a decade" tier, which is nice.

I'm also wondering if/how the "add up to four homepods" feature compares to "getting a soundbar".

> I'm also wondering if/how the "add up to four homepods" feature compares to "getting a soundbar".

In my experience, a soundbar or similar is better if you intend to use anything other than the Apple TV. With the HomePod if you want to use e.g. a PlayStation then you're out of luck.

Ahhh, that reminded me to look: looks like the rumored passthrough didn't happen. Oh well.

This is a good point. Maybe not good to do HomePods in the living room where we have the Switch, but fine to use them in the bedroom where we don't.

It’s so expensive for what it is that they advertise a consumer loan.

Man what a letdown. Price and features actually wanted

the up to 4 homepods angle for surround sound is new?

or a tvOS thing that works for older tvs as well?

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