Today Apple announced to all new Apple TV. These are the important new features.
Photo gallery at the end of the post.
Apple TV
- Revolutionary remote with Voice support (Siri button) and a glass touch surface (to move around)
- Full resolution animated videos that act like wallpapers and backgrounds
- A4 chip 64-bits
- Bluetooth 4.0
- HDMI and Ethernet Ports
- Use Siri to chose what to watch by interacting with Siri via voice and natural language
- Skip ahead
- If you missed something, you can say: “What did she/he say?”. Siri will rewind 15 seconds and temporarily enable captions
- Ask suggestions from Siri about movies to watch
- Ask for in the moment info
- Future of the TV is apps
- tvOS – for developers to write apps for the Apple TV
- Apps: Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Zillow, …
- Games: Disney Infinity game, Shadow Matic, Crossy Road, Hipster Whale, etc…
- The Apple Remote allows you to swing it to play games (that require swing to hit)
- Cooperative play with anyone that has an iPhone or iPod Touch
- Online shopping from your couch
- Watch multiple sports games at the same time, take screenshots, etc…
- Universal apps: apps for iPhone, Apple TV, iPad, etc…
- Continue playing games where you left of
- App Store
- Pricing:
- 149$ for 32GB
- 199$ for 64GB
The Apple TV will be available in late October.
