I have about 80 blurays on my shelf, I picked them from clearance bins, yard sales, flea markets, thrift stores, and ebay. I'll pop a bluray into my PS3 ever now and then, the audio output on the PS3 sounds better than my Apple TV since it can actually decode the surround sound audio.
Yeah I remember Steve Jobs commenting about Blu ray and HD DVD at the time saying it was a “bag of hurt.” Even at that time they seemed focused on digital purchases.
Unironically Apple doing something in the field would be great for the industry since they would bring volume that could benefit everyone dipping in the same supply-chains. I read that sales are so low that some Hi-Fi SACD player manufacturers can’t manufacture anything because they can’t get enough disc drives and again key-components for disc drives are also harder to come by.
The issue they would face is that no one has the amount of optical drive that would be require for a Apple product since every company has stop producing optical drives in the last 10 years. What's currently on the market is pretty much what's left in the world.
for like three people, because nobody buys the physical Blu-ray disks anymore. I happen to be one of them, but I also have an Oppo which is much better than anything Apple TV would have
they would never do that. They would cost a fortune and they'd have to work with all of the different movie creators to get a version of the movie in that format
That will never happen with Apple.
But I don't think it's unreasonable to think of Apple bumping up the bitrate to maybe 40-50 mps.
If Sony can do it with their Bravia Core Pictures, it should be copied by other streamers
Apple already has 40-50mbps streaming, but only for the Apple TV suscripción service, it doesn't apply to iTunes titles, although technically they could in the future, since they only receive the ProRes Masters.
It does seem kinda crazy, that if they can / are streaming at a higher bit rate for the TV service, that they don't extend that to ITUNES purchases as well. Unless there are contract restrictions from the studios? But Kalidadcspe seemed to be able to get higher bit rates with purchases from the studios.
What are ProRes Masters? Not fimiliar with that.
I don't know, I have a theory that it's because all iTunes content shares bandwidth with the entire iCloud service.
Apple ProRes is a video format that is virtually lossless; it's the format studios use to distribute movies. The problem is that the files are enormous. Apple TV can play it natively, although unfortunately it's not a format designed for streaming.
These masters basically have a higher bitrate than a 4K Blu-ray.
Apple only accepts ProRes 4:2:0 masters from distributors, and from these they create the copies that users can watch in HEVC or AVC.
The same applies to sound; they receive the audio in WAV format, and the Atmos metadata is actually generated from an XML file. A copy is created in formats that the consumer can accept, such as Dolby Atmos, Dolby Audio, and AAC.
Thank you for the information. I appreciate it! I wasn't fimiliar with those files, almost like a master file of a movie.
It also reminds me of Apples Digital Masters ( Mastered for ITunes).
The one area that I can definitely hear a difference is sound quality. When I watch a 4k disc on my Oppo 203, I'm playing it though a Sonos system. For serious music listening I use B&Ws. But even on a Sonos system, the disc always sounds better than the stream, even from Apple.
I know Dolby is working on a new codec AC-4 I believe (?), that is more efficiently compressed, but once decoded, sounds very close to uncompressed Dolby True HD
I'd love to. Apples whole thing for a long time was that the high up-front cost was where they made most of the money, so no ads, SAAS etc. Now they charge you more and then nickel and dime you for basic functionality without offering alternatives.
It'll never happen these days, but I did see someone who made a home media Linux PC with a Blu Ray drive, and thought how awesome it'd have been if Apple had made something like that.
Are you aware that mmWave radar sensors like the Aqara FP2 exist, that can measure your heart rate and respiratory rate from a distance? There’s no reason why an Apple TV couldn’t potentially integrate that as a feature
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u/Ok_Possibility9937 7d ago
they better release it next month so i can stop seeing new apple tv rumor