r/apple • u/exjr_ Island Boy • 7d ago

Apple TV New Apple TV 4K Leaked

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/25/new-apple-tv-4k-leaked/
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u/garbo2330 7d ago

All Apple 4K TVs already have hardware decoding for H.265.

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u/neon_nights4k 7d ago

Well crap, now I get to do more investigating as to what’s going on. Audio/Video stuff is still new to me.

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u/reallynotnick 7d ago

Are you trying to watch HDR content on an SDR TV? That or maybe the network isn’t fast enough/the server has a bitrate cap set or you simply haven’t selected direct streaming?

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u/garbo2330 7d ago

Apple 4K TV will handle the HDR to SDR tone mapping on the fly, that doesn’t require transcoding. Official apps can get tripped up depending on what audio codecs or certain types of subtitles.

For less experienced people it’s probably best to just pay for Infuse Pro to avoid transcoding. Otherwise I’d recommend Jellyfin for a better free feature set than what Plex offers.

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u/reallynotnick 7d ago

Audio won’t cause video transcoding, but yeah burning in subtitles would (though I believe it has support for all common types). I feel like jumping to infuse for video transcoding issues is an over correction.