Can't believe that Apple TV... - eviltoast

…hasn’t been into my life sooner.

Being an Apple sheep since iPhone 3G, I can’t believe I have only now discovered AppleTV.

If I had used it sooner, I could have saved at least 200 days worth of life navigating through Android TV lag.

My top 3 Pros/Cons in the first week of AppleTV 4k:

Pros:

  1. Seamless experience of scrolling through different platforms. No lag. Gave new life to my 3 year old 65 inch Sony 4K TV.
  2. Picture is crisper compared to Android. Visually, this is what I’ve experienced. I don’t know if it’s got to do with their processing or it’s just a placebo?
  3. No more shi*ty remote that breaks easily or goes missing. Can use my iPhone too. Go ahead and destroy/hide the TV remote for the 10th time, kids…Jokes on you!!

Cons:

  1. I did not buy it sooner
  2. Apple ads failed to convince me to buy it sooner.
  3. Minor depression from the realisation fact that I lost ~200 days of life from AndroidTV lag

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Do not make the same mistake as me. Do yourself a favour and get an AppleTV.

  • UncleSpellbinder@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Pretty much the same for me. AndroidTV/GoogleTV has been a mess since the first time I used it years ago. Whether through a built-in OS on a TV or through Chromecast w/GoogleTV. I have an iPad and a Mac Mini. I don’t know why it took me until the AppleTV 4K 3rd generation to buy one.

    The lag with AndroidTV/GoogleTV is more than annoying. Whether it’s with the OS loading when turned on, or when scrolling, or when opening apps… it’s more than enough to piss me off. AppleTV’s OS is super quick, snappy, fast to load on first boot, apps open lightning quick, scrolling is buttery smooth, and picture is far superior to that of AndroidTV/GoogleTV.

    I recently got a new Hisense 65" U6K TV. It has GoogleTV OS. Upon initial set-up, I signed in to GoogleTV just for the purpose of getting the TV ready to use. I installed none of my apps on GoogleTV. Once up and running, I plugged in my AppleTV 4K and set the TV to open on “last used input.” So when the TV is turned on, it opens directly to AppleTV.

    On a side note… while ROKU TV is not as good as AppleTV, it’s a relatively close second. The ROKU TV Ultra is being used on my bedroom TV. Bottom line, AppleTV 4K is a joy to use. I could never see myself returning to the mess that is AndroidTV/GoogleTV.