The Apple TV is Underrated.

Summary

本视频讲述了Apple TV的多重优势，强调其不仅是一款被低估的媒体播放器，更是智能家居中心、Mac和iPhone的延伸、游戏控制台等多功能于一体的设备。视频中提到，与普通智能电视相比，Apple TV在操作效率、使用简便性及寿命方面具有明显优势。其使用高性能的芯片，提供流畅的界面和快速的应用切换。除此之外，Apple TV还支持无广告界面、与其他苹果设备的无缝连接、高品质的游戏体验和作为智能家居中心的功能。尽管其游戏选择有限，远程控制器有时敏感过度，但Apple TV的多功能性和长期支持使其成为一款值得考虑的产品。

Takeaways

• 😊 苹果电视的体验比一般智能电视快得多,响应迅速,切换应用无延迟
• 👍 苹果电视作为家庭中心,可以控制HomeKit智能设备,实现自动化
• 🎮 通过Steam Link,苹果电视可以流畅播放PC游戏
• 💰 相比智能电视,苹果电视寿命更长,至少可使用8年

Q & A

为什么Apple TV被低估了?

文章列出了几个原因:智能电视的操作系统比较慢,而Apple TV快速流畅;智能电视存在广告,而Apple TV界面简洁;Apple TV可以无缝连接其他苹果设备,实现更多功能。

Apple TV的性能如何?

Apple TV使用和iPhone、iPad相似的芯片,拥有6核64位CPU和5核GPU,性能非常强劲,可以流畅播放媒体和游戏。

Apple TV的游戏体验如何?

通过Steam Link,Apple TV可以流畅地把PC游戏传到电视上。有点延迟但不影响游戏体验。但是Apple TV本身游戏数量较少。

Apple TV可以当智能家居中心使用吗?

可以,Apple TV可以当HomeKit的中心枢纽使用,建立各种自动化场景和功能。

Apple TV遥控器有什么问题吗?

触控板操作YouTube时可能会不小心滚动视频时间轴。整体而言遥控器体验还不错。

Apple TV硬件会持续升级支持吗?

会的,第一代Apple TV发布8年后才停止支持。新版Apple TV有望配备Apple Silicon芯片,性能会更出色。

Apple TV的价值体现在哪里?

考虑到可能8年的使用期限,Apple TV的价值主要体现在提供持续、高质量的流媒体、游戏、智能家居等服务上。

Apple TV还有哪些额外功能?

可以让iPhone帮助电视校色;可以把手机内容投射到电视上;可以连接AirPods私人观影。

相比智能电视,Apple TV的优势在哪里?

界面流畅、反应迅速,无广告,可以无缝连接苹果设备,使用寿命更长。

你会推荐购买Apple TV吗?为什么?

会的。Apple TV作为媒体中心很出色,无广告界面,可以实现更多扩展功能,预计使用寿命很长。

Outlines

00:00

📦 Apple TV的多功能性和高效率

Apple TV是一个被低估的多功能设备，不仅是一个媒体播放器，也是家庭中心、Mac和iPhone的延伸、一种通道设备以及游戏机，全部集成在一个无声的小盒子中。与现代智能电视的操作系统相比，Apple TV以其高效、易用和长寿命脱颖而出。智能电视的操作系统通常反应缓慢，应用加载缓慢，而Apple TV则提供流畅、快速的界面，能够迅速切换应用。它采用与苹果Pro系列iPhone和iPad相同的芯片，提供了与这些设备相同的速度、可靠性和效率。此外，Apple TV的界面简单、熟悉、响应迅速，无广告，与所有苹果设备和服务无缝连接，支持内容投射和游戏流，但游戏选择相对较少。

05:00

🔄 Apple TV未来展望与使用体验

未来可能会推出搭载苹果硅芯片的Apple TV，这将使开发者能够为几乎所有苹果设备创建游戏，增强设备间的兼容性和体验。然而，当前Apple TV的遥控器在使用时可能会有些敏感和不稳定。作为智能产品的中心，Apple TV支持家庭自动化和定位任务，提高了使用便利性。此外，Apple TV还能通过iPhone校准颜色输出，以匹配电视显示的原始内容，消除了使用第三方颜色校准工具的需求。虽然Apple TV的价格较高，但其长期的支持寿命和与苹果生态系统的深度整合为其增值，使其成为一个考虑的值得的产品。

Keywords

💡苹果电视

苹果公司推出的一款流媒体播放器和智能家居中心。它具有流畅的界面,强大的芯片,可以流畅播放视频、游戏,还可以与其他苹果设备无缝连接。作者认为它是一个被低估的产品。

💡流畅的界面

文章提到苹果电视的界面非常流畅快速,应用打开很迅速。这与大多数智能电视的界面相比有很大优势,可以带来更好的用户体验。

💡连接性

苹果电视可以通过AirPlay无缝连接iPhone、iPad、Mac等其他苹果设备。这让不同苹果设备之间的内容共享和互动变得很方便。

💡游戏

苹果电视支持通过Steam Link流式传输电脑游戏。作者用这种方式玩了《绝地求生:堕落的武士》,获得了很好的游戏体验。

💡智能家居

苹果电视可以作为HomeKit智能家居产品的中心枢纽,用来建立自动化场景和基于位置的任务,控制智能设备。

💡寿命

与智能电视相比,苹果电视会获得更长的软件更新支持,使用寿命更长,更值得购买。苹果第一代电视推出8年后还在继续获得支持。

💡显示校色

苹果电视可以通过iPhone面的颜色传感器来校正电视上的颜色显示,无需额外购买专业设备,该功能对于影视消费很有帮助。

💡性价比

尽管苹果电视作为流媒体播放器的价格不低,但从长期使用角度来看,它的性价比是很高的,每年的使用成本很低。

💡遥控器

文章提到苹果电视遥控器的轻触板实用但也有问题,当观看Youtube时可能会不小心滑动导致视频跳转,使用上有些敏感。

💡未来展望

作者期待苹果会在未来推出搭载自研芯片的新款苹果电视,届时会有更多大型游戏登陆,让苹果电视成为跨平台通用的游戏机。

Highlights

苹果电视运行流畅,界面简洁,与其他苹果设备无缝连接

智能电视系统反应迟缓,苹果电视则相反

智能电视有内置广告,苹果电视则没有

苹果电视与iPhone和iPad使用同样的芯片,性能更优

Steam Link允许通过苹果电视流式播放游戏

苹果电视的游戏选择有限,希望未来能改善

远程易于意外触摸和滚动,使用体验有待改善

可作为HomeKit的中心枢纽

可使用iPhone校准电视颜色

相比智能电视,苹果电视将获得更长期的支持

首代苹果电视支持长达8年

看作是获得数码娱乐和智能家居控制的长期投资

价格不菲,但其实物有所值

如果你已经深陷苹果生态系统,这是必买产品

综上,苹果电视是一个被低估的产品

Transcripts

The Apple TV is really underrated.

And I'm going to tell you why.

This little black box from Apple

is one of the most overlooked products that they market today.

This is a media player, a home hub, an extension of your Mac

and iPhone, a gateway device and a gaming console

all in a tiny package, which makes absolutely zero sound.

I was one of the many doubters of this product.

Why would anyone buy an Apple TV when most modern TVs

have some form of operating system and a built in app store?

Well, it ultimately comes down to efficiency, ease of use and lifespan.

One of the main issues with modern TVs is that their operating systems

are painfully slow.

The apps take forever to load,

and they're responsiveness is something left to be desired.

For example, here's a little task for you if you own a smart TV.

Turn it on.

Boot up the home page for apps and launch a streaming service or YouTube.

Tell me how long it takes.

Now try switching between apps.

It's painfully slow, isn't it?

On my TV, it can take up to 45 seconds from start to finish, whereas

with my Apple TV, I simply hit the power on button on the Siri remote.

It turns on the TV, boots up either the home page or the last app

I was using, and instantly I'm able to watch content.

The interface is so fluid and fast.

I can even switch between multiple apps and still have time to spare.

This is because

TVs are TV's first and computers second.

The chips they use are not very powerful and obviously the smart

functions are a second thought when it comes to the user experience.

The Apple TV is built as an entertainment hub from the ground up,

using the same chips that have been used in their pro iPhones and iPads.

This chip has a six core 64 bit CPU with a five core GPU.

This means you get the same speed,

reliability and efficiency that your iPhone or iPad has.

Along with the added bonus of being so simplified

and niched down into one system that it performs excellent from simple

tasks like media playback all the way to gaming.

One big issue with smart TVs these days is that they are being sold

with adverts built into the smart features.

To me that is an absolutely huge smack in the face to the consumer who's already

paid anything from a few hundred to several thousand pounds for this TV.

The Apple TV, however, has an interface that is simple, familiar and responsive.

Anyone who's used an iPhone or iPad will feel instantly at home.

It's easy to organize apps, create folders, and as it is an Apple product,

it links together with all of your other Apple devices and services.

If you're watching something on your iPhone, Mac or iPad

and want to see it on the big screen, simply cast it to the Apple TV

and it will instantly display with a lag free experience.

You can even work from your television using the Apple TV.

For couples who have a TV in their bedroom, being in the Apple

ecosystem allows you to easily connect your AirPods to the Apple TV.

So for those times when one of you doze off, the more wide awake

of you can carry on enjoying your TV show or videos like this one

without disturbing the other's beauty sleep.

But all of

this was a second thought to the main reason I purchased it.

I bought an Apple TV for one specific app.

Steam Link.

Steam Link allows me to stream games over my network to my Apple

TV and play any game that supports a controller.

As someone who enjoys playing story driven games, not sat at my desk

using a keyboard and mouse,

this made for the best couch or in my case, bed gaming sessions.

I was a late adopter to the Jedi Fallen order game.

I've actually

owned it for quite some time, but I never wanted to play it at my desk.

So what I did was pick up an Apple TV

and a PS5 Dualsense controller and I was hooked from that point.

Every night I'd spend an hour or two playing it, sat in bed.

The experience was flawless.

My Apple TV has an Ethernet port, so the connection never dropped

and the quality was almost identical to the PC.

There was maybe a few milliseconds of lag

between my PC monitor and the image displayed on my TV,

but it was never enough to affect gameplay or controller inputs.

Now gaming on the Apple TV isn't all great.

There are services like Apple Arcade and a few games on the App Store,

but honestly, the game selection is pretty poor.

There is a hell of a lot of indie games and arcade style racing games,

but none of them I found

gave me a real satisfaction or craving to play them a second time.

It's a shame as there are some big titles coming to Apple's MacBook lineup

and with their metal API being able to scale to system requirements,

I was hoping we'd see some of these larger titles being able to run,

maybe even at a lower resolution on the Apple TV.

This to me seems like an Apple Silicon powered Apple TV

must be coming in the future, as it would mean developers could create games

that would run on almost every single Apple device.

Here's hoping we actually do get that in the future.

There's also the issues that I have personally with the remote.

I do love the size,

layout and feel of it, but it can be very temperamental at times.

The touchpad, while being extremely useful and fast for navigating

the homescreen, is such a nightmare when watching YouTube.

I can't count on my hands how many times I've accidentally scrolled

30 seconds either way while trying to scroll through a video.

It's a bit too sensitive.

Another bonus feature of the Apple TV like the HomePod and HomePod

Mini is the ability to use this as a hub for your smart products.

So if you are heavily invested in HomeKit products, this is a must have purchase.

This allows you to create automation scenes and location based tasks.

For example, if you have a smart light, you can set them to turn on

and when you return home, or at a certain time

or entirely by themselves as a security feature.

My main example of this is one I've spoke about in my HomePod mini video.

As soon as my phone connects to my

wi fi on returning home, my accent lights in my room turn on.

Oh, providing it's at a certain time, of course.

And as the Apple TV is always plugged in, whereas sometimes

I unplug my HomePod, it makes for a perfect home hub.

And finally, a great feature for consuming media

in general is the ability

to use your iPhone to calibrate the color output of your Apple TV

to match the original content that is being displayed on your TV.

You simply place your iPhone face down on the TV

when prompted and let it cycle through a range of colors.

It's an incredibly smart and user friendly feature that takes away

the need to use a third party color calibrating tool.

Obviously, it's quite an expensive media player when you think about it.

I picked up the ethernet version with 128 gigabytes of storage

and at the time of filming it is £169.

Now, you can probably buy a small smart TV for that price, but

this is where you need to show the value of a smart TV versus an Apple TV.

A smart TV has a short shelf life.

There are lots of reports of companies pulling apps from the smart TV stores

because they are no longer viable to run on those TVs or they're just too big.

This greatly reduces the value of those TVs.

The way an Apple TV becomes value for money is that this will be supported

for years to come.

You only need to look at the iPhone, support life to see this iPhones

last six or more years with software and security updates.

And as this uses

the same technology as an iPhone, you can expect it to last just as long.

For example, the first generation of Apple TV was launched in 2007

and support was discontinued in 2015.

That is eight years of support

for a first generation product, and it didn't even sell that well.

So think of it this way.

Your Apple TV will give you potentially

eight years of media streaming on demand services, gaming,

smart home integration, fitness services, and potentially even more in the future

when new apps and features are announced with the new version of Apple TV software.

So that is why I

think the Apple TV is a very underrated product

and it's something you should definitely consider looking into.

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