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Endless Mike posted:There's a setting you can turn off so only devices on your network can connect. Where's this setting? I sure would like to not see a hundred AppleTVs and Macs in my apartment building.
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If you hated the remote like I did: https://www.amazon.com/Sideclick-Universal-Attachment-Streaming-Players/dp/B01N3PL81R This poo poo changed the game in my house. We used to have to have multiple remotes for various things, now we only need one. I got it a year ago or so, still works without changing battery-- not a single complaint. It also gives the remote a little bit more heft so you don't feel like you're slinging around a baseball card. But most importantly, it attaches to a single side which means when you pick up the ATV remote you never have to flip it around because you picked it up upside down which was ANNOYING.
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Oct 18, 2018 17:44
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savesthedayrocks posted:Me too. I programmed it to change inputs on the receiver, mute, menus, etc. I stored my other remotes away and haven’t looked back. I did too but I could never get mine to power the TV on, tried fiddling with the auto-wake, etc. And then changing the input on the TV was even more of a nightmare, once I got a PS4, etc. Volume, etc., works just fine on the ATV but power/input no.
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Oct 19, 2018 01:29
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I want to watch movies and view pictures and gifs I have on a hard drive. The HDD is connected to my PC by USB. What is the best way to watch your own movies AND see pictures on an AppleTV nowadays? I currently have my PC sharing the HDD over my network via SMB which is accessed via Infuse on my devices-- didn't need Pro. It works but it's pretty jank and you can't see pictures. I was thinking it would be a good idea to shove all my poo poo into a cloud storage option somehow, but since some of the things on there are homemade porn I'd be violating various TOS rules, even if they go unenforced.
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Dec 4, 2018 05:31
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Minidust posted:Learned about the SideClick through this thread a while back. Can anyone confirm whether or not it allows you to map the... uh, "side-click" commands from the ATV siri remote? You know, the command that lets you go forward or back by 10 seconds in a video. I'm confused why would you want to have the sideclick perform an action that the ATV remote that it's attached to is able to do? I think it's just supposed to let you get rid of your TV's remote.
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Mar 19, 2019 05:41
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Minidust posted:The side-click often feels clumsy on the ATV remote, and for whatever reason it works worse in some apps than others. I've mostly gotten used to it but my wife doesn't have the patience for it. Oh, that makes sense. I guess I rarely sideclick to fast forward so haven't experienced the problems here.
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Mar 19, 2019 20:37
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Boris Galerkin posted:what is side click A Sideclick is a small IR remote that attaches to your ATV remote. A sideclick is when you click on the left/right edge of the touchpad on the ATV remote to rewind or fast forward 15s.
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Mar 20, 2019 16:48
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:The TV app is a pretty decent aggregator. I wish I could turn off or hide the movies that are iTunes only.
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May 11, 2019 17:19
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:Infuse. Oh yeah man, Infuse is great for all the poo poo I have on my computer. I have a 4TB disk full of random poo poo, especially 4k content and it's beautiful in Infuse on my ATV. So easy to use, it's like netflix or some poo poo but it navigates the folders I have it set up for. It also downloads box art and subtitles.
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May 13, 2019 05:45
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Nice I can get rid of my Steamlink now. All I have left are my Switch and a DVD player. I regret buying all these DVDs since they seem to be cluttering up my console. Maybe I should just take a day and rip them all into a hard drive.
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May 16, 2019 05:08
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American McGay posted:I've never had an issue with streaming 4K HDR files over WiFi. Same. AppleTV is really the only reliable of the various STB things. SteamLink trip report: fuckin' rules!
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May 20, 2019 19:39
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NofrikinfuN posted:Can you compare the SteamLink app performance to the physical SteamLink? I bought one for like five bucks, but would gladly shelve it if the app is as good or better. The app on ATV isn't noticeably different. There is a 1-3ms difference in response time (SteamLink better), and it seems to not attempt to re-render on the Big Picture Mode as much.
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May 23, 2019 02:02
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fivehead posted:If you have not yet tried Steam Link, it received an update this week enabling HEVC decoding in the app. The streaming quality is almost flawless over ethernet. I set bandwidth to automatic and its between 40 mb/s and 50 mb/s with less than 30 ms of latency total. I tried some resident evil, hitman and hollow knight and it was excellent. Is that why it was so much smoother? I was able to play Overwatch on my ATV today and I had no problems. I set it to "balanced" but couldn't notice a difference in input latency vs "beautiful" to be quite honest.
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Jun 14, 2019 03:30
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astral posted:It would be nice if more of them supported the TV app. The TV app would be great except that it doesn't let me filter out the poo poo I can't watch right now without having to buy stuff. If there was just a strip of 'these movies are also good and you can rent them!' it'd accomplish the same thing and make me want to use it more than clicking on poo poo I want to see and being told 40% of the time I'd need to buy it.
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Oct 20, 2019 09:25
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phosdex posted:A Swiss tv company has produced an alternate remote without the touchpad, apparently with Apple's blessing: Holy poo poo I want that stupid remote.
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Dec 9, 2019 17:48
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YouTube doesn’t work with homepods and follows a different UI such that you don’t have the option to switch audio devices. The great list of apps I have that doesn’t work with homepods are: YouTube Even twitch works. Even Channels works. Google sucks.
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Apr 11, 2020 07:43
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MarcusSA posted:The Hey Siri on the HomePod works better than any other apple device I have by a pretty wide margin. This is truth. Being able to tell Siri to pause or mute or turn down volume is a godsend. As an aside I must say Disney+ has poo poo for sound mixing so everything is either too quiet with spikes of being every loud or vice versa. gently caress.
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Apr 12, 2020 06:02
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qirex posted:I have a feeling the YouTube app will maintain its bizarrely unusable interface. No HomePods support fucks me up.
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Jun 24, 2020 04:41
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Endless Mike posted:The Sideclick thing is pretty useful. Makes the control actually not easily loseable and gives you infrared controls for your TV if you want that. I use this for sure and I love it very much.
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Jul 10, 2020 16:59
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phosdex posted:How do you use Picture in Picture? Pause a show or put your finger on the remote to make the playback bar appear and, if the app supports it (big if), there’ll be a little PIP button. The only one that has it is Apple TV+ so far (for me). When they said they’re opening it up everywhere they mean all the devs CAN add PiP to theirs. I want a YouTube (or Twitch) PiP really bad but they’ll probably never come because YouTube is the only app on my ATV that doesn’t give a poo poo about normal tvOS standards and does their own, lovely thing. Homepods don’t work on YouTube! Still! gently caress Google.
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Sep 18, 2020 16:38
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EL BROMANCE posted:If you didn't know, you can use the old remote before they went touch. I like touch, but due to clumsiness I have a rubber shield around it and that does make doing the edge taps a bit more of a hassle. I use a sideclick for similar reasons. The actual remote is kinda ... uh.. small? lovely?
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Oct 14, 2020 01:17
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Endless Mike posted:The Apple remote is bad, but the Sideclick is the cheapest junk I've dealt with in a long time. Ever drop a remote? Better not make a habit of it otherwise you'll bet reassembling your Sideclick regularly. I have never had this problem with mine (yet). I've been using my phone as a remote a lot more these days because I keep misplacing my remote and not giving enough of a poo poo to find it. Whoever, at apple, decided to let you use your phone as a remote loving rules.
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Oct 15, 2020 10:29
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TraderStav posted:How does the AppleTV/AirPod integration work when more than one person in the house has a pair and are not using the same iCloud account? My wife and I are in the same iCloud family, can she use her AirPods with our AppleTV seamlessly or is there weirdness because the ATV is set up with my iCloud account? I think, at any point, when your things are on and in-range you just select them either via the in-video options or via settings.
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Oct 19, 2020 19:33
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I’d imagine it’d be a processor upgrade that’ll last for another 8 years or whatever to prepare for high refresh rate 4K content (?). And also please a new remote because holy gently caress. While I’ve come to terms with mine and use a sideclick it’s still a motherfucker.
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Dec 7, 2020 19:15
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Watch them introduce a new remote with a classic iPod-style scroll wheel. poo poo I might like that more.
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Dec 7, 2020 19:22
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smackfu posted:Is there any way to “hand-off” Apple Music from your phone to the TV? I can Airplay but I can’t use the TV screen to control it. In Apple Music, push the button that looks like 2 concentric blue circles with an arrow under them and select your ATV.
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Jan 8, 2021 05:24
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Apr 6, 2021 19:04
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Honestly just a better/more robust implementation of Airplay for Homepods would make me very happy. It’s dumb that each app wants to have their own stupid loving interface for playing videos, so some of them have you swipe down to select an audio output and others have no option to do so at all. Google has the worst loving apps on AppleTV, followed by Amazon.
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Apr 12, 2021 12:51
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I use a Sideclick for specific TV functions but otherwise the Apple TV remote just works for me too.
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Apr 21, 2021 16:04
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I use DolbyVision so I don’t know if it’s even, like, worth doing instead. I also don’t know what DolbyVision is. When I enabled it, everything was a little bit more yellow. I guess it’s supposed to be better, so I’ll keep it on?
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Apr 27, 2021 15:32
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:I never could get YouTube connect to ever work seamlessly It has to be. YouTube loving sucks on ATV. I think the fact that videos don’t default to the lowest resolution available was a begrudging concession by Google. The Disney+ app also kinda sucks on ATV. All the apps that don’t just use the default video player format whatever are sort of bad. Hulu also has a lot of issues, especially with HomePods. Still light years ahead of other tv device things though.
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May 17, 2021 20:50
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Youtube and Amazon are garbage apps Disney + and Hulu are just a little bit above Youtube and Amazon HBOMax is just a little bit below Netflix I've never had a problem with Netflix.
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May 31, 2021 17:50
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CygnusTM posted:I've been reading this stuff about the changes in the HBO Max update, and I'm thinking, "It can't be that bad." Holy poo poo, it's bad. Scrubbing and skipping is completely broken, at least with the new remote with swiping enabled. I switched over to a Fire TV for HBO and found that they hosed it up there too, just not as bad. It's breathtaking how badly they've screwed this up. AT&T is p much known for loving up otherwise good and functional things for stupid reasons and, somehow, always appearing to be about 8 years behind everyone else.
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Jun 7, 2021 19:49
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I have HomePods and it’s stupid nice to be able to say “Hey Siri go back 30 seconds” or “hey Siri turn it down” or “hey Siri turn on the subtitles” My favorite one is to say “hey Siri turn off the TV” because my TV turns itself off after like 10s of no activity. I rarely need to use a remote which is good because the remote fuckin sucks
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Jun 19, 2021 19:25
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ATV has Siri commands via the remote and the remote app, actually. But it’s rarely more convenient than just using the remote(s).
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Jun 19, 2021 22:25
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nate fisher posted:I know that. It is just stupid you can’t go ‘Hey Siri’ and have it work. Instead you have to find the remote or your phone which by that time it is useless. Ah yeah I’m with you. Though I keep my ATV in my console I bet it wouldn’t be able to pick up clear voices
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Jun 20, 2021 15:26
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It’s probably still Comcast’s fault. Generally if the error is sequestered to only one app, it’s because they hosed something up on their end. Does anyone have a workaround for why AppleTV is insisting I download and use Peacock to watch The Office, even when I bought the entire show on iTunes? I tried removing peacock content but it still persists. Deeply, deeply annoying.
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Oct 5, 2021 19:50
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My AirPods Pro have been my favorite purchase of the last few years, and the spatial audio junk is just icing on that cake. They’re still stupid expensive, even at $180.
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Oct 6, 2021 18:37
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That sucks. I think the entire class of wireless earbuds are hosed up; my parents bought me Bose QC Earbuds for my birthday and they broke within 30 minutes. I got a pair of Sony things and they broke within a few days. Then I figured (hoped) Apple would have the best QA so I bought AirPods and so far my theory has been correct. I recently watched a movie while my wife slept in the next room and the spatial audio on my AirPods was like living in the future, and I don’t think other wireless earbuds can do that? I really wish these things were like $60. Ugh. I’m always afraid I’ll lose them or something will gently caress up and then poof, bye bye $200.
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I think Airplay isn’t over WiFi/Ethernet, and is some weirdo Bluetooth poo poo. Source: in my building my ATV allows airplay from devices not on my wifi.
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