Hi Thank you for the review, I’ve had mine since July, coming over from a third generation, and love it. So much so I never watched so much TV in forever, which isn’t long enough <smile>. Anyway, there is more content simply because of the introduction of “apps” and a dedicated App Store for the platform known as tvOS. In previous generations, it was all or nothing.
> On 28 Sep 2016, at 15:20, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Everybody > > Having owned and used my Apple TV for several days, I thought I'd bring the > group up to speed on where I am, as well as voicing a few opinions and > comments on its functionality. However, I would urge potential Apple TV > owners to keep in mind that some functionality can change, for better or for > worse, based on country and/or region. > > First, I have to say that although I knew how to do this, the Apple remote > and the Apple virtualisation of the keyboards can take a little getting used > too. It has changsh somewhat since I last played around with the unit. My > second generation model is just about to be retrieved from the junk box where > it was wrown when we decorated all the house out last year. I plan to use > that model on my 32-inch office room TV, and I will be buying another flat > screen TV and another Apple TV for my bedroom. > > Anyway, back to the point. The unit is extremely easy to set up and use. > There are a couple of ways in which this can be done. You can either have it > grab the settings for your Apple ID from another networked device, or else > you can have it grab your networked devices settings from your Ample TV once > you enable its Wi-Fi. > > I opted to go with the latter option, as it means fewer passwords and much > less typing using the Point-'N-Clic interface which is necessary at the start > of the setuv. When I can be bothered, I may assign it a BlueTooth keyboard, > but I don't really consider that a necessity just now. > > Once you have your network options and Apple ID configured, you need to make > sure that home sharing is enabled if, as I do, you wish your music, certain > apps and movie librarry to be imported from iTunes. > > AppleTV comes in two flavours. You can choose between either 32 or 64GB. the > price difference is, to my way of thinking, going to make the 32GB model a > false ecconomy, between over here in the UK, there's only about _40.00 > difference between them. So I went for the larger storage. > > there are some problems which I'd like to seee Apple fix. The worst of them > relates to playing music. If you select a track from an album in your iTunes > librarry, the audio at the start of the track is duckt by around 50% whilst > VoiceOver announces the name and other info about the selected item. That's > bad, and I have reported it as much. > > That asside, I am growing to like the device. It's software layout is > intuitive, and the selection of on-demand > intent ranges from movies, to sport or current affairs. That is certainly a > pleasant surprise, as I don't recall seeing that level out availability in > previous generation models. > > The remote control uses Bluetooth 4.0 technology, in offder to make SIRI > avaialable. SIRI does work quite well, though learning the commed set can > prove challenging at times. > > I'm still learning but, overall, I would say that is you're looking for > something to give you general entertainment whils sprawled in front of the > TV, then this option might be wopth your while considering. Overall, I disd > rate it as 4 out of 5. Not as versatile as some systems, but certainly not a > bad offering. > > ============================== > > My Compliments And Kindest Regards > Gordon Smith > 'Accessibility And Information Technology Support Specialist > ------------------------------
