The circular clickpad at the top of the remote control works in the same way as the touch-sensitive trackpad, allowing you to swipe up, down and left to right to scroll through apps and settings on the Apple TV 4K. The new Siri remote is thinner, but slightly heavier than before, and powered by a rechargeable battery. However, unlike some of the best streaming devices, it doesn’t come bundled with a HDMI cable – you’ll need to provide this yourself.Īs we’ve already mentioned, the revamped Siri remote is one of the big draws of the new Apple TV 4K. On the back are the power socket, a HDMI 2.1 port and an Ethernet socket, although it does also have Wi-Fi. It has a matt black top with a discreet Apple TV logo in the center, in the same glossy finish found on the sides. The latest Apple TV 4K certainly isn’t the most compact TV streaming device on the market, but it’s not the bulkiest either – measuring 3.9 x 3.9 x 1.4 inches / 9.8 x 8.8 x 3.5cm (w x d x h) it can slot easily into your existing home cinema setup. Re-vamped thinner, weightier Siri remote.Those affected will have to wait on more info from Apple (perhaps a software update) or an App update from affected streamers. My theory above may be a stretch and ultimately prove to be incorrect, but the testing and observed behavior may help other's see that the issue isn't something they can fix and so save them time. This would be pretty bogus if it is a hardware failure that necessitates a replacement. Whether it be with Apple or some of the various streamers that need to update their apps to correct this issue. Hopefully this is indeed just a software issue. YouTube and Disney+ appear unaffected by this bug, but both use a completely different proprietary player that does not behave at all like the AppleTV+ player and also does not yet support the circular scrubbing. This player (AppleTV+ or purchased content) does not seem to be affected by the bug. The AppleTV player uses a new API set that has the info displayed at the bottom of the screen by pressing the back button. Netflix and Prime can use this new gesture, but they still use the old info pull down and so are somehow affected by this bug (partial use of the latest API set). ![]() ![]() The video player or API set has been updated to work in the new "circular scrubbing" gesture with the new AppleTV. ![]() I have a theory (a bit of a stretch perhaps) that this is just a labeling problem in the info pull down with apps that still use the "old" video API on the AppleTV. Additionally, YouTube reports over its completely different info function that it is playing a 4K stream. This makes me think that the Prime stream is actually 4K. This HDR profile is only applied to 4K or 8K streams. The TV reports that, even though the pull down info in the Prime app only displays HD, the stream is playing HDR with the bt.2020 profile. The TV will report the HDR profile for HDR, HDR10, and HDR10+ content. Then I had the idea of playing "The Expanse" and checking the TV info, because it is oddly enough filmed with HDR not Dolby Vision. This of course could be because the AppleTV is no longer upscaling, so I tried to think of some other test. In both cases the info pull down in the player only displays the HD badge even though the played stream looks much better with the max resolution set to 4K. When I switch the max resolution back to 4K the 4K label (or the Dolby Vision label) returns on the title page. So I switched the max resolution on the AppleTV to 1080p and when I did that the TV of course only reports 1080p, but the Netfilx app shows only an HD badge on the title page of a 4K title. Because the AppleTV upscales to 4K, my TV always reports 4K even if it is a title that is only available in 1080p. I finally started testing a theory that the AppleTV is actually playing the 4K stream, just the badge isn't right because the stream still looked good to me and because the TV flashes up either the Dolby Vision or HDR label when the stream starts from Netflix or Prime even though the info pulldown only shows HD and no mention of HDR or DV. Since then I have played with all of the settings on the AppleTV to get this "fixed" but with no positive results. I went to turn on the subtitles via the pull down menu so that I could play with the new "circular scrubbing" by rewinding and I saw that there was just an HD badge in the info pane instead of the Dolby Vision badge I was expecting. Monday evening I went to watch the last episode of "Jupiter's Legacy" on Netflix and one screen had some pretty obscure dialog. I swapped in the new AppleTV 4K on my LG OLED for the previous gen on Friday, but I didn't notice the issue right away because I only watched AppleTV+, iTunes purchased content and Disney+ until Monday. I have been dealing with this issue since Monday.
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