**The Five Things You Need to Know Before Purchasing a New Apple TV**

If you're in the market for a new Apple TV, there are several things you need to consider before making a purchase. In this article, we'll take a closer look at five key factors to keep in mind.

**Design and Size: A Heavier and Thicker Device**

The new Apple TV is slightly larger and heavier than its predecessor, with a thickness of 35mm compared to the previous model's 23mm. It also weighs more, with 425 grams compared to the previous model's 272 grams. While this may not be a significant issue for most users, it's worth considering if you're someone who travels frequently and brings their Apple TV with them.

If you're that kind of person, you may want to consider a Chromecast instead, which is significantly smaller and more portable. The Chromecast is also plug-and-play via HDMI, eliminating the need for power. However, if you're not traveling frequently, the thicker design of the new Apple TV shouldn't be a major concern.

**4K Playback: A Significant Drawback**

One of the biggest disappointments with the new Apple TV is its lack of support for 4K playback. Despite its hardware capabilities, the device only supports 1080p resolution at 30Hz, which means that if you have a phone capable of shooting in 4K, you won't be able to watch those videos on your Apple TV at full resolution.

This limitation is frustrating, especially considering that 99.9% of all movies are shot at 24 frames per second. It's unclear whether an update will be issued to support 4K playback, but for now, it's a significant drawback.

**Offline Storage: A Major Upgrade**

In contrast to the previous generation Apple TV, which used almost no storage space for its software and apps, the new device comes in two models: 32GB and 64GB. The 64GB model is highly recommended, as you'll be able to download apps and games, and store offline content.

The 32GB model may not be enough for heavy users, but it's still a significant improvement over the previous generation. With the new Apple TV, you can finally use storage space effectively and access your content on the go.

**Price: A Steeper Price Point**

One of the biggest surprises with the new Apple TV is its price. The 32GB model costs $199, while the 64GB model will set you back a whopping $249. While this may seem steep, it's worth considering that this device is designed to be a premium entertainment center.

If you're looking for a more affordable option, you might want to consider alternative streaming devices or services. However, if you're willing to invest in a high-quality device with plenty of storage space and offline capabilities, the new Apple TV may be worth every penny.

**The Future: A Streaming Service on the Horizon**

Finally, there's buzz about an upcoming streaming service from Apple, which will offer access to movies and TV shows. While details are still scarce, it's likely that this service will launch sometime in October, possibly at an upcoming Apple event.

It's not clear whether the new Apple TV will support this streaming service natively, but it's a major selling point for many consumers. With the introduction of 4K playback and offline storage capabilities, the new Apple TV is shaping up to be a powerful entertainment device.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone welcome to the knockdown i'm daniel and this well this is an apple tv and gifts you've seen the apple event or you've watched my live stream you probably know that there's a new apple tv coming soon now it only comes out in october but it's incredibly powerful it comes with series support you can play games on it and here are five things you need to know before buying one enjoy the video okay so starting off at number one we have the performance so the new apple tv comes with an a8 chip compared to the a5 like the previous model did so it comes with an apple a chip just like the iphone 6 as well as two gigabytes of ram two gigabytes of ram another gig two gigabytes just like the ipad air 2 and just like the iphone 6s and this basically means that the brand new apple tv is actually more powerful than iphone 6. but the reason why they've made it so powerful is because the apple tv now supports full sized apps and games as well so there's a new category in the app store which same as with the apple watch will feature a ton of apple tv supported apps and gained and just as i mentioned before there's also a brand new remote that comes with the new apple tv i wonder how many times i've said apple tv we definitely need a counter for that and the new remote is simply awesome so it comes with a touchpad series support comes with an accelerometer a gyroscope and it also comes with a rechargeable battery which you charge via a lightning connector so no more buying any external batteries and the battery is supposed to last you for a couple of months which again is pretty cool the new remote is basically the main way of controlling your apple tv however you can also use your iphone or even ipad to control your apple tv games and in case you're wondering yes there are a few third-party controllers that are actually coming to the apple tv so yeah the first thing that has changed from the previous model is this the performance you can now play full games use third-party controllers or your phone or ipad to control those games and you can do that on your full size tv so yeah the previous model didn't have an app store well now this one this one does so this is the first thing that you should know before buying the new apple tv it's incredibly powerful and now it's essentially a game console as well although don't expect to play any batman arkham 9 on this one the only games that you will be playing are going to be mobile games so basically anything that you can play on your iphone you'll be able to play on the new apple tv as well so no call of duty or anything like that now the second thing that you should know is that the new apple tv has been redesigned but not in a good way so now it's both taller or thicker depending on how you put it and heavier than the previous model so it's 35 millimeters tall versus 23 millimeters and weighs 425 grams compared to just 272. and if you're that kind of person who travels a lot and who brings their apple tv everywhere keep in mind that the new one is definitely more difficult to both carry and fit into a bag although if you're traveling a chromecast is definitely the best way to go it's really small it's just slightly bigger than the usb drive and it plugs in via hdmi so you don't even need to power it so that's just a tip but if you're not traveling the thickness and the wave shouldn't be that much of a problem okay now moving on to number three this one is actually a huge letdown the neo apple tv doesn't support 4k playback at all and the interesting thing here is that it comes with hdmi 1.4 and hdmi 1.4 does support 4k playback although it's limited at 30 hertz but also keep in mind that 99.9 of all movies are shot at 24 frames per second now apple might just bring up a software update and fix this because the hardware definitely supports 4k so this means that if you have a phone capable of shooting in 4k like the new iphone 6s for example there's no way of watching that on the apple tv at full resolution only in 1080p which i believe is pretty bad speaking of 4k hopefully you're watching this video in 4k let me know by the way in the comment section down below how many of you have a 4k monitor and how many of you are actually watching this video and 4k because yes i did shoot this video in 4k but yeah let me know moving on to number four the capacities so the previous gen apple tv came in eight gigabytes of storage but it didn't actually use that storage for anything or then a couple of photos and software updates all the movies that you watched were basically streamed but now this new apple tv comes in two models so there's a 32 gigabyte model and a 64 gigabyte model as well which means that you can use those for offline storage and since you can now download apps and games as well i highly suggest going for the 64 gigabyte model and this brings us to number five which is the price so the current gen apple tv has recently seen a price cut and it's now priced at 69 but a new one is going to be much more expensive so dollars for the 32 gigabyte model 199 for the 64. so this is definitely the most expensive setup box yet but in the end the question is do you actually need an apple tv i mean if you have a computer if you have a laptop you can simply connect that by hdmi to your tv and play all the movies from there and you have a console you can play some epic games right on your tv games which are definitely not playable on this so it doesn't do anything new and before i leave i just want to mention one more bonus feature and that is the streaming service so in case you've seen my september apple event watch expect video i said that apple is going to announce a brand new movie streaming service most probably called apple movies and apple hasn't announced anything yet but it's definitely going to happen i'm not exactly sure if it's going to come to the current apple tv or just the new ones my guess would be both but that's coming as well most probably in october i think they'll announce this at the apple event because yes there's going to be a brand new apple event in october for all the new mac announcements so that's most probably when they're going to announce that streaming service and yeah there you go this was basically it these were the five things or six things that you needed to know before purchasing an apple tv let me know in the comment section down below if you have an apple tv or if you plan on purchasing the next gen model is it something you can't live without or is it just a gimmick definitely let me know so yeah this has been it definitely feel free to give this video a thumbs up if you have enjoyed it and depending on your feedback i might be making some more videos like this one some more five things you need to know before purchasing a device also feel free to subscribe to my channel for more epic videos oh and don't forget to turn on email notifications on both desktop and mobile platforms on mobile just by clicking that bell icon next to my channel so that you're notified when a brand new epic video comes out thank you all for watching this video i'm daniel and i'll see you in my next one it's enough tech signing out cheers foreignhey everyone welcome to the knockdown i'm daniel and this well this is an apple tv and gifts you've seen the apple event or you've watched my live stream you probably know that there's a new apple tv coming soon now it only comes out in october but it's incredibly powerful it comes with series support you can play games on it and here are five things you need to know before buying one enjoy the video okay so starting off at number one we have the performance so the new apple tv comes with an a8 chip compared to the a5 like the previous model did so it comes with an apple a chip just like the iphone 6 as well as two gigabytes of ram two gigabytes of ram another gig two gigabytes just like the ipad air 2 and just like the iphone 6s and this basically means that the brand new apple tv is actually more powerful than iphone 6. but the reason why they've made it so powerful is because the apple tv now supports full sized apps and games as well so there's a new category in the app store which same as with the apple watch will feature a ton of apple tv supported apps and gained and just as i mentioned before there's also a brand new remote that comes with the new apple tv i wonder how many times i've said apple tv we definitely need a counter for that and the new remote is simply awesome so it comes with a touchpad series support comes with an accelerometer a gyroscope and it also comes with a rechargeable battery which you charge via a lightning connector so no more buying any external batteries and the battery is supposed to last you for a couple of months which again is pretty cool the new remote is basically the main way of controlling your apple tv however you can also use your iphone or even ipad to control your apple tv games and in case you're wondering yes there are a few third-party controllers that are actually coming to the apple tv so yeah the first thing that has changed from the previous model is this the performance you can now play full games use third-party controllers or your phone or ipad to control those games and you can do that on your full size tv so yeah the previous model didn't have an app store well now this one this one does so this is the first thing that you should know before buying the new apple tv it's incredibly powerful and now it's essentially a game console as well although don't expect to play any batman arkham 9 on this one the only games that you will be playing are going to be mobile games so basically anything that you can play on your iphone you'll be able to play on the new apple tv as well so no call of duty or anything like that now the second thing that you should know is that the new apple tv has been redesigned but not in a good way so now it's both taller or thicker depending on how you put it and heavier than the previous model so it's 35 millimeters tall versus 23 millimeters and weighs 425 grams compared to just 272. and if you're that kind of person who travels a lot and who brings their apple tv everywhere keep in mind that the new one is definitely more difficult to both carry and fit into a bag although if you're traveling a chromecast is definitely the best way to go it's really small it's just slightly bigger than the usb drive and it plugs in via hdmi so you don't even need to power it so that's just a tip but if you're not traveling the thickness and the wave shouldn't be that much of a problem okay now moving on to number three this one is actually a huge letdown the neo apple tv doesn't support 4k playback at all and the interesting thing here is that it comes with hdmi 1.4 and hdmi 1.4 does support 4k playback although it's limited at 30 hertz but also keep in mind that 99.9 of all movies are shot at 24 frames per second now apple might just bring up a software update and fix this because the hardware definitely supports 4k so this means that if you have a phone capable of shooting in 4k like the new iphone 6s for example there's no way of watching that on the apple tv at full resolution only in 1080p which i believe is pretty bad speaking of 4k hopefully you're watching this video in 4k let me know by the way in the comment section down below how many of you have a 4k monitor and how many of you are actually watching this video and 4k because yes i did shoot this video in 4k but yeah let me know moving on to number four the capacities so the previous gen apple tv came in eight gigabytes of storage but it didn't actually use that storage for anything or then a couple of photos and software updates all the movies that you watched were basically streamed but now this new apple tv comes in two models so there's a 32 gigabyte model and a 64 gigabyte model as well which means that you can use those for offline storage and since you can now download apps and games as well i highly suggest going for the 64 gigabyte model and this brings us to number five which is the price so the current gen apple tv has recently seen a price cut and it's now priced at 69 but a new one is going to be much more expensive so dollars for the 32 gigabyte model 199 for the 64. so this is definitely the most expensive setup box yet but in the end the question is do you actually need an apple tv i mean if you have a computer if you have a laptop you can simply connect that by hdmi to your tv and play all the movies from there and you have a console you can play some epic games right on your tv games which are definitely not playable on this so it doesn't do anything new and before i leave i just want to mention one more bonus feature and that is the streaming service so in case you've seen my september apple event watch expect video i said that apple is going to announce a brand new movie streaming service most probably called apple movies and apple hasn't announced anything yet but it's definitely going to happen i'm not exactly sure if it's going to come to the current apple tv or just the new ones my guess would be both but that's coming as well most probably in october i think they'll announce this at the apple event because yes there's going to be a brand new apple event in october for all the new mac announcements so that's most probably when they're going to announce that streaming service and yeah there you go this was basically it these were the five things or six things that you needed to know before purchasing an apple tv let me know in the comment section down below if you have an apple tv or if you plan on purchasing the next gen model is it something you can't live without or is it just a gimmick definitely let me know so yeah this has been it definitely feel free to give this video a thumbs up if you have enjoyed it and depending on your feedback i might be making some more videos like this one some more five things you need to know before purchasing a device also feel free to subscribe to my channel for more epic videos oh and don't forget to turn on email notifications on both desktop and mobile platforms on mobile just by clicking that bell icon next to my channel so that you're notified when a brand new epic video comes out thank you all for watching this video i'm daniel and i'll see you in my next one it's enough tech signing out cheers foreign\n"