I get customers complaining about grandkids coming to visit for the holidays and not being able to watch movies on their iPads because of the grandparents crappy Internet (6+ Mbps) out in the country. My suspicion is they are trying to watch the iTunes videos you refer to, and I notice you say that you “buy” it for $9.99, you don’t say stream it. I’m suspecting that unlike Netflix which is oriented to streaming and has many stream rates to adapt to the connection speed, that Apple may be sending you the raw BluRay quality or something close. Just a hunch, because I have people watching 3 simultaneous Netflix streams on the same service these people say is insufficient for one stream.
Do you know what the minimum Internet connection speed is for Apple video? Not Netflix on an Apple TV, but content bought through Apple. If that doesn’t explain it, my next theory would be the kids have their iPads set up to watch content from their home cable connection like Comcast. It’s no use asking the grandparents, it’s like asking them if their computer has DDR3 or DDR4 SDRAM. From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2016 9:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Directv Now Ya... Amazon is not available on Apple TV... they are competing for users at this point. LOL The cool thing about Apple's service (music, movies, apps) is you can do their Family Share plan that is $14.95/month and up to 5 family members (using their own Apple ID) can all share any music, movies or apps that you pay for and have access to. So, I can buy a movie on my Apple TV for $9.99 and then all of my kids have access to it on all of their devices (iphones, ipads, Apple TV) for free. With Apple TV you can also download apps like TnT and NFL and if you have a satellite or cable account (with username/login and access to those channels), you get access to them on Apple TV as well. :) Travis On 12/9/2016 11:32 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: OK, after my son taught me how to use the remote (you swipe the upper half, it is pretty cool) I like the remote. I taught it to control the volume of the TV and you can search with voice. I really like the remote better than Roku once I got used to it. Just swipe to skip ahead etc. The video quality is the best of all the devices I am currently trying. Gold Rush never looked so good. It took some time for the Directv app to initialize and load the guide etc. I left it on for an hour and came back to it mostly working. I did have to upgrade the Apple TV software. I tried to watched some old episodes of The Profit and it would stop part way through with an apologetic error code on the screen. So, a bit buggy for archived content. Once they get the DVR function working, I think I will cancel SlingTV and Sony Playstation Vue. I really like using the voice command for usernames and passwords. Loaded up Netflix, Hulu, Showtime. Oddly, no Amazon app. Must be some bad blood between companies or something. Oh well, keeping the Tivo, it does Amazon and all my locals. Did not see any locals on Apple. From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2016 5:18 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Directv Now Received mine yesterday. I couldn't tell the difference between it and the HD FiOS TV I have. But haven't moved it to my 4k TV yet. Although, I hate the remote. The Roku remote is so ergonomically friendly, just not happy with the Apple TV remote. On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 5:21 PM, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: FedEx says my apple tv is waiting on my doorstep when I get home. Be interesting to see the difference in the user experience as compared to viewing on the PC.
