Do you want to buy a TV and have a craze on apple TV. Here I am going to show apple TV 4th generation.
Apple TV 4th generation Features:
- It is a set top box type based of TV which released on december 12th 2016.
- The advanced OS used in this generation is tVOS 10.1.
- The price of TV is about 199 US$ for 64 GB model and 149 US$ for 32 GB model.
- Central Processing Unit of this generation TV is Apple A8 at 5 gigahertz. Apple 4G has 64 or 32 GB nand flash storage capacity.
- Apple remote or apple Siri remote are used to control this apple TV.
- The weight of the TV is about 0.9 lB that is 0.41 kg.
- Dimension of tV is about 33 mm height, 98 mm width and 98 mm diagonal.
- Around 8000 apps are available for Apple TV 4th generation.
- It can be connected via bluetooth, USB type c and WiFi.
- You can use your iPhone, iPad, iPad Touch via apple remote.
Let’s see some detailed description about this product.
The fabulous thing in this TV that supports for some iPhone apps and Siri.
Siri used here for:
- Siri is used to fast forward or rewind.To do this hold siri button and instruct it by saying ‘fast forward 2 minutes’ or ‘rewind 30 seconds’ like this.
- While watching movie in other languages you can ask Siri for subtitles by instruct to turn on subtitle or turn off subtitle.
- When watching movie or shows you can ask questions like who is star cast, what is the name of the movie, who is the director and rating of the movie.
- In the same way if you not understand some part in movie or some dialogues in movie you can question Siri by ‘what did he say?’.This instruction to Siri will rewind 15 seconds with subtitle.
- Siri is used to find the particular app in apple TV by your instruction.
- You can able to play youTube by using this siri and can able to select a video from it.
- By using the siri you can ask for news such as sports, weather, extra.1
Screensavers:
- It has some awesome screensavers in it. To enable the screensaver we have to go to settings from that select general and select screensaver in that change the type of screensaver to aerial. Double click on it will show the screensaver on your screen.
- To switch between the app double click the home button.
Audio adjustment:
- If you want to adjust your audio you can swipe down in your remote. It will show some menu from that you can select the audio setting sound range as well as you can able to select the language of audio.
- If your video plays multiple languages means you can select particular language from here.
- Speaker settings are available here to connect your sound systems in your home.
Game Folder:
- If you want to make your games as a folder you can drag ad drop one game app over the other will make a folder.
- Another way you can select play or pause button during the rearranging process then a list will appear from that you can select new folder or can move into existing folder.
- If you want to delete a particular app you can select buy click on play or pause button from the list you can select delete option.
General settings:
- To manage the storage capacity of apple TV you have to go to settings from that select general below that select manage storage.
- Manage storage shows the complete details of apps memory capacity. From this list you can choose the option of delete the particular app also.
- If you want your TV to be sleep then click on home button and select sleep option from that.
If you have a feeling that your TV is not operating properly you can restart your TV by selecting system from settings in that select restart. - In the same way you can reset your TV if you need.
And you have a question like How we can update software? - For that go to settings select system in that select software update. This will update your software.
Not only in Apple remote you can also connect with iPhone, iPad any other keyboard can be act as a remote. - To do this you have to select remotes and devices from settings it shows multiple options for the connectivity such as bluetooth that can connect with keyboard, remote app that can connect to iPhone or any other devices.
- For Bluetooth via collection have to pair the request with the device using key pair.
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Airplay
Using Airplay you can display video from Mac to HDTV.
Apple TV remote:
That remote comes with sensitive touch pads, siri button, menu button play pause button and volume adjustment button.
Comparison between 3rd Generation AND 4th Generation:
| Features |
3rd Generation |
4th Generation |
| Original Price: | 99 US$ | 149, 199 US$ |
| Present Price: | 69 US$ | 149, 199 US$ |
| Remote: | Apple Remote | Siri Remote |
| Remote sensitivity | Good | Good |
| Controllers: | No | Yes |
| App Store: | No | Yes |
| Original OS: | Apple TV 5.1 | TVOS 9.0 |
| Present OS: | Apple TV 7.x | Current |
| Ports for Display: | HDMI Port | HDMI 1.4 Port |
| Audio Ports: | Optical | None |
| Dolby 5.1: | Yes | Yes |
| Apple Order No: | MD199LL / A | MGY52LL / A
MLNC2LL / A |
| Apple Model No: | A1427 or A1469 | A1625 |
| EMC No: | 2528 or 2633 | 2907 |
| Processor Type: | Apple A5 Processor | Apple A8 Processor |
| Core: | Single core | Dual core |
| Speed: | 1 GHz | 1.4 GHz |
| RAM: | 512 MB RAM | 2GB RAM |
| Memory: | 8 GB | 32GB, 64GB |
According to me Apple TV 3rd Generation and apple TV 4th generation both are good in visual and audio quality. But apple TV 4th generation has some unique features especially siri play a good role to the user. The 3rd Generation has a dedicated remote for it and the swipe part present in the bottom of the remote but in 4th generation the swipe present in above part of the remote. And also the 4th generation tv can have remote communication even from it’s own remote or it can be connected from other devices. So enjoy the apple TV 4th generation features in your home. Home sweet home.