The all-new Apple TV with Siri remote, tvOS, and Apple TV App Store
Posted on 09/09/2015 4:31:47 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple today announced the all-new Apple TV, bringing a revolutionary experience to the living room based on apps built for the television. Apps on Apple TV let you choose what to watch and when you watch it. The new Apple TV’s remote features Siri, so you can search with your voice for TV shows and movies across multiple content providers simultaneously.
The all-new Apple TV is built from the ground up with a new generation of high-performance hardware and introduces an intuitive and fun user interface using the Siri Remote. Apple TV runs the all-new tvOS™ operating system, based on Apple’s iOS, enabling millions of iOS developers to create innovative new apps and games specifically for Apple TV and deliver them directly to users through the new Apple TV App Store.
“There has been so much innovation in entertainment and programming through iOS apps, we want to bring that same excitement to the television,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, in a statement. “Apps make the TV experience even more compelling for viewers and we think apps represent the future of TV.”
The new Siri Remote dramatically simplifies how you select, scroll and navigate through your favorite content while bringing unique interactivity to the new Apple TV by using a glass touch surface that handles both small, accurate movements as well as big, sweeping ones. Adding touch to Apple TV creates a natural, connected experience, even if the TV screen is on the other side of the room. Developers can take advantage of the built-in accelerometer and gyroscope, and the touch surface on the Siri Remote to create games and other app experiences that have never been seen on TV before.
The all-new Apple TV with Siri remote, tvOS, and Apple TV App Store
With Siri, you can use your voice to search TV shows and movies by title, genre, cast, crew, rating or popularity, making it easy to say things like “Show me New Girl,” “Find the best funny movies from the ’80s,” “Find movies with Seth Rogan” and “Find popular TV shows for kids.” Apple TV will search iTunes and popular apps from Netflix, Hulu, HBO and Showtime, displaying all the ways the resulting TV shows and movies can be played. Siri also offers playback control and on-screen navigation, as well as quick access to sports, stock and weather information.*
tvOS is the new operating system for Apple TV, and the tvOS SDK provides tools and APIs for developers to create amazing experiences for the living room the same way they created a global app phenomenon for iPhone and iPad. The new, more powerful Apple TV features the Apple-designed A8 chip for even better performance so developers can build engaging games and custom content apps for the TV. tvOS supports key iOS technologies including Metal, for detailed graphics, complex visual effects and Game Center, to play and share games with friends.
Pricing & Availability
The new Apple TV will be available at the end of October starting at $149 (US) for a 32GB model and $199 (US) for a 64GB model from Apple.com, Apple’s retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers. A new Xcode beta is available for developers today that includes the tvOS SDK at developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads. Developers can request an Apple TV developer kit at developer.apple.com/tvos/.
*Siri availability and functionality varies by country. Subscription required for some content.
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No thank you. I’ll stick with Vidics.
Sorry, not interested in products peddled by sodomite CEO’s
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I’m going to wait for my 4K Roku. Coming Soon, I think.
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
Sorry Siri, after yelling at liberal Fox News hosts, you'd find my voice unrecognizable
Apple introduces “revolutionary” technology already offered by Roku... and an iPen that came with my Note 3 and didn’t even cost me $100.
Epic day.
But I guess that’s just FUD.
apple has made an absolute killing off the “gotta have the latest tech right now” crowd i just dont get it
Yeah IIRC Amazon had the voice controlled TV Box for a year or more now...
I just hope it will have a dedicated digital audio output.
hey look! a TV! how novel!
of course, i’ve had a 48” HD TV for years... and haven’t turned it on much over the last few years.
another DOA product to be trumpeted by the fanbois as the next greatest thing
whatever.
Please - no more Apps. Can’t shut them off; they turn themselves back on, try to update, constantly glitch Win 10 anyway.
Apple fanbois & sodomite lovers.
Market wasn’t impressed - stock price dropped after this “extraordinary” announcement.
Perhaps the gadget obsessed Asians will buy this stuff...I wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole/
Apple is playing copycat but it has a built in pool of potential fanbot buyers. They will buy something that has an Apple label slapped onto it but not Amazon in this case
If I am not mistaken this is already offered by Amazon Prime TV and Roku.
Having both I see nothing new under the sun and predict that tweaking smart phones, tablets and introducing a TV all at the highest price in the industry is kind of a yawn.
Don’t keep up with this sort of thing much. What is the source of the signal, or programming for Apple
TV? Is it over the internet, or from cable and satellite channels?
If Apple can induce “channels” to be sold as Apps this will (eventually) be transformative.
But Tim Cook lacks a Reality Distortion Field, so getting content providers to give up the gold mine that is cable may prove difficult.
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