Apple TV has been on the market for a long time, but the manufacturer is constantly developing its solutions and enriches it with new features. The latest version of the stand to the TV is the fourth generation of this device and was presented at yesterday’s conference in San Francisco. What has changed with respect to their predecessors? The most important new feature is the integration of voice assistant Siri and refreshed remote control.
In terms of appearance stands little has changed here, because it looks exactly like previous versions, except that it is slightly larger. Much more distinguished by remote control, which was equipped with six physical buttons: volume control, causing Siri, the menu and the main screen. In addition, the pilot has a touch panel, and the whole was covered with a glass surface. Changes also occurred inside the controller, because now it is equipped with an accelerometer and a gyroscope used for games. According to the manufacturer, the pilot can work three months without charge.
When it comes to the specification of the same support, now it offers 64-bit processor Apple A8 Bluetooth 4.0 for communication with the controller and Wi-Fi 802.11ac MIMO . Sorry about the components were not disclosed too much information, but devoted more attention to new software features. These appeared quite a lot has changed since the entire operating system. From now it’s called tvOS. Nevertheless, users of Apple devices will not be surprised by its interface, because clearly it refers to systems that are known from other products of the Cupertino company. The whole was divided into sections Movies, Shows, Applications, Photos and Music, which clearly shows that the Apple TV is designed for home entertainment.
Despite the separation of the various categories manufacturer boasts that you can freely search them all at the time, what you want to use Siri. It was she who is the biggest novelty in the fourth version of the stand. As an example of using voice assistant is given the ability to set a very precise search criteria, such as. With specific actors in movies, television series in a given year or materials appropriate age. In addition, Siri can rewind the film for a few minutes and display subtitles only for the selected part of the movie. Of course, there were also notable features even with the iPhone, such as checking the weather or the results of sporting events.
A lot of emphasis is also put on the applications to be universal, meaning that they will work both on Apple TV as well as on iPads and iPhones. For this purpose, the manufacturer has released a special API to help developers work. As shown at the conference, it will become possible to synchronize the results of mobile games and the use of the iPhone and the iPod as the controller for multiplayer. And they look like prices and the availability of Apple TV 4? The new device is expected to begin shipping in late October and for the version with 32 GB of internal memory will have to pay $ 149, while the variant with 64 GB of flash memory will cost $ 199.
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