New Apple TV 4K With Auto Color Balancing Feature Makes Debut
Apple used its spring 2021 product launch event to announce the latest iteration of the Apple TV 4K featuring improved cinematic experiences including support of High Frame Rate HDR and a more powerful Siri remote. The company said the second generation Apple TV 4K streaming…
Major New Smart Home Platform Standard Planned
Anyone interested in purchasing a new TV in part to use as a smart home hub might be interested to learn that Amazon, Apple, Google and the Zigbee Alliance are teaming up in a historically unlikely way to develop a new open standard assuring interoperability…
LG TVs Get HomeKit, AirPlay 2 Updates This Week
Good news for Apple iOS users who happen have recently purchased a 2019 LG AI TV: The company announced Tuesday that Apple AirPlay 2 and HomeKit will be available to use in their big-screen sets via a firmware release that starts July 25th. LG said…
Apple Replaces iTunes For The Streaming Age
Apple revealed at WWDC 2019 in San Jose, Calif. this week that it is ending the iTunes software program as its been known and shifting emphasis to more streaming friendly segregated content-type entertainment apps, like Apple TV. Apple executives revealed the company will be phasing…
NVIDIA Shield TV Package Begins Pre-Orders As Apple TV 4K Arrives
With the new Apple TV 4K announced and on the way Sept. 22, 2017, NVIDIA announced Thursday that it is now taking pre-orders on its latest Shield TV remote-only package at a lower entry price. For the new Shield TV (with remote), which joins the…
Apple Unveils Apple TV 4K Media Adapters
As widely expected, Apple used its press conference Tuesday to introduce the new Apple TV 4K in two versions, both supporting 4K 3840x2160p resolution streaming video for the first time as well as both Dolby Vision and HDR10 high dynamic range. A version of the…
Apple Support Of HEVC To Bring 4K UHD To More Screens
Apple disclosed at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2017 this week that it has officially selected the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) compression standard as its codec of choice for next-generation video streaming. Apple executives said that HEVC decoding and encoding would find…
New Apple TV Unveiled, But No Mention Of 4K
Apple still didn’t materialize a long-rumored iOS-based television set at a much-hyped press conference Wednesday, but the company didn’t take its eye off of the big screen. Instead it unveiled a next generation Apple TV set-top-box, bringing more iPhone-like functionality to the living-room screen, including greater…
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