Apple Tries to Rein in Hollywood Spending After Years of Losses

Re:Apple Tries to Rein in Hollywood Spending After Years of ... by gleenn on Monday July 22, 2024 @03:45PM (#41038985)

As a counter point, you can buy a Apple TV and mine lasted maybe a decade. The cheapest one I see is $130ish. Why don't we try and keep electronic waste to a minimum by buying long lasting stuff. I know not everyone can afford a device that's a few times more expensive but it really isn't if you take the long view and it will be better for the planet.

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Re:Apple Tries to Rein in Hollywood Spending After Years of ... by jwells89 on Monday July 22, 2024 @04:26PM (#41039447)

To add to this, the first-gen Apple TV 4K I use, which was first released back in 2017, still runs the latest tvOS and works great. The A10X Fusion SoC in it is still a great deal more powerful than what's built into most streaming boxes in 2024. The current-gen Apple TV has an A15 Bionic which is much another huge step up in power.

They're not the cheapest thing out there, but you get a lot of muscle (and longevity) for your money.

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Re:Apple Tries to Rein in Hollywood Spending After Years of ... by mrguyorama on Monday July 22, 2024 @05:22PM (#41039961)

My $30 second gen chromecast is still going strong, and I prefer it's "just a dumb box that runs special apps your phone apps tell it to" system, such that I never have to interact with it.

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Re:Apple Tries to Rein in Hollywood Spending After Years of ... by jwells89 on Monday July 22, 2024 @05:33PM (#41040048)

I may be misunderstanding, but don’t this involve an intermediary re-encoding when casting video from phone → dongle? If so that’s unavoidable quality loss which isn’t great and runs down phone battery unnecessarily. If it works for you though, that’s what’s important!

Aside from that, having a little extra power available can be nice for being able to smoothly play back video formats that the hardware doesn’t have acceleration for, obviating need for transcoding (via Plex or similar).

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Re:Apple Tries to Rein in Hollywood Spending After Years of ... by 0cf8612b2e1e on Monday July 22, 2024 @08:40PM (#41041380)

Phone is only a remote that tells the chromecast/fire/roku etc where to get the stream.

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Re:Apple Tries to Rein in Hollywood Spending After Years of ... by balls187 on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @02:28PM (#41060167)

Meanwhile the 3rd Gen AppleTV was released in 2013 and was obsolete by 2015 when they released tvOS.

I owned the 1st gen (used) and 3rd gen. Terrible investments (imo).

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