If you previously enjoyed optical audio output on Apple TV to enjoy sound in good quality, whatever sound equipment you have, we have bad news for you. Incomprehensibly Apple has decided to remove the optical audio connection on the Apple TV, and of course it does not have an AUX output, so we will have no choice but to take advantage of the only HDMI connection it has to broadcast both video and audio on our Apple TV, which will bring a headache to more than one and two.
In the detail of the Apple TV specifications on the Apple website we have come across this unpleasant news, and now the only alternative for sound is the HDMI output that the equipment has. For audiophiles it is certainly bad newsAlthough all is not lost, they can connect the HDMI to the equipment and the equipment to the TV to duplicate the image, if it allows us, or to emit the sound through AirPlay if we have one of the few sound equipment that we allow you to take advantage of this feature.
On the other hand, the Apple TV brings sound emission this time Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 through its HDMI 1.4 port, improving on Dolby Digital 5.1 offered by the previous edition of Apple TV. This is one of the novelties, hand in hand with the 2 GB of RAM that it has recently confirmed. However, we still don't know how Apple is going to weather the fact that the new Apple TV limits the weight of applications to 200MB. Small impediments to which we hope that Apple has put a solution before releasing it for sale. Another quite controversial aspect is that the version of Siri for the Apple TV will only be available in 8 countries and in 4 languages. Controversy prior to the launch of this small device that promises a lot.
It seems that nobody has noticed, but the fact that the Apple TV has a 10/100 network card limits it enough, it is incredible that it is not gigabite.
With a 10/100 network it is impossible to stream 4gb mkv. I do not know where they point with this new Apple TV but for me it has been scarce in many ways.
- 10/100 network card
- absence of usb 3.0 ports to connect a pendrive
- no optical audio output to connect to the amplifier
- video application intended for the American market
- excessively low game size limitation
- touch control with physical buttons, when they should have been capacitive
- design more than obsolete, they have not spent a penny on redesigning the exterior
- they should have made it fully compatible with iOS games
Anyway, I want another and I cannot to those of us who are too accustomed to the bitten apple.