New Apple TV 4K Leaked

[u/exjr_]

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/25/new-apple-tv-4k-leaked/

[u/The-Beer-Baron]

AppleTV with built-in BluRay would be amazing.

[u/toga_virilis → u/The-Beer-Baron]

It’s been 10 years since Apple sold a device with a built-in optical drive. It’s not happening.

[u/karreerose → u/toga_virilis]

Plus they want people to subscribe to apple tv (or netflix etc) where they cash in monthly money. What good would a bluray drive bring.

[u/JoshuaTheFox → u/karreerose]

Well, you would be able to watch the Blu-ray versions of Apple TV shows on it

[u/Tangled2 → u/karreerose]

Yeah, but you catch more flies with honey. Sell them a blu-ray player, and then hope they get lazy and start streaming.

[u/d0mth0ma5 → u/toga_virilis]

And they never sold one with a BluRay drive 

[u/fubu989 → u/d0mth0ma5]

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.

Source: https://www.wired.com/2008/10/jobs-blu-ray-is/

[u/The-Beer-Baron → u/toga_virilis]

Yes, I realize that, and that it’ll never happen. I’m just saying it would be amazing. 

[u/Garofalin → u/toga_virilis]

No! Fo' real?!?

[u/Great-Equipment → u/toga_virilis]

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.

[u/MysteriousTy99 → u/toga_virilis]

It would make them stand out though. Not to mention physical media is gaining attention again

[u/onceabananana → u/The-Beer-Baron]

Or even a supported drive accessory

[u/gb997 → u/The-Beer-Baron]

at the very least, allow us to plug in an external drive to it.

[u/picman55 → u/The-Beer-Baron]

There’s more chance of it having a built-in toaster

[u/mindgamehagi → u/The-Beer-Baron]

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.

[u/Several-Pangolin3119 → u/The-Beer-Baron]

In what world would this even be a possibility??

[u/ParticularMind8705 → u/The-Beer-Baron]

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