It supports Dolby Atmos in the Dolby Digital Plus format (which is what all streamers such as Netflix/Disney+/etc. uses).

It does not support the height metadata of Dolby Atmos using TrueHD (such as from blu-rays) but you can still play those tracks as 7.1 surround, just without the height speakers. Typically, I would recommend the Infuse app, which handles all the high definition audio formats really well.

Because this gets them views. We’ve been down this road before. Nobody at Linus likes these clickbaity titles they have to use for videos, but this is what people click and watch, which is what generates them money.

This is extremely difficult to do by eye. Typically most TVs will have a “cinema” preset (or called something similar) which is typically the most color accurate mode and will get you 90% of the way to a good picture.

Actually, I do think that you may be able to stack the Playstation offer - at least you used to be able to in the past unless they changed it.

I think yes, to a point. Certain standards like button placements and navigations should be standardized. Some functionality, like holding down the select button for more options, should also be enforced.

That being said, I don’t think all streaming service UIs need to look exactly the same.

I do think that Apple should tighten down their update checks. Sometimes they let an app update through that breaks HDR or Atmos and it would be great if they tested these things more thoroughly.

The Apple TV HD is much, much worse in every way. It’s a really old repackaged model from like 2015 that Apple hasn’t bothered updating. Definitely get any of the Apple TV 4K models, even the first-gen 4K is better.

The HD doesn’t get:

• 4K support (1080p max resolution)

• HDR/Dolby Vision

• Dolby Atmos

• Worse connection speeds (100 Mbit max on the HD, 1000 Mbit on 4K, slower wifi and bluetooth as well on the HD)

• No Homepod support

• No smart home stuff

• The CPU is much slower with an A8 (HD) vs the A15 (4K). Literally seven CPU generations slower.

I would not even remotely consider the Apple TV HD unless it was like $20. It’s outdated in pretty much every way possible. The Apple TV 4K is modern hardware, and will remain modern for at least 5+ years from now. My parents inherited my first-gen Apple TV 4K and that box is still fairly modern by todays standards, and is better than the Apple TV HD.

I haven’t noticed it in 24 FPS content (yet), but I did notice it in a 25 FPS show on Netflix (frame rate switch is on). It stuttered every few seconds, and then I swapped to my internal smart TV Netflix app and it was completely fine. Very strange.

I don’t know if I’ve ever unplugged my Apple TV 4K. Maybe once or twice to clean or plug in something.

The sleep/standby mode is so low power that there’s no reason to fully turn it off.

Yup. Gabe Newell (boss of Valve) once said in an interview that Apple’s approach to gaming is to be super excited about it leading up to an event, announcing all kinds of support and upcoming stuff. Then a few months pass and they have completely forgotten all about it and that’s it. Then a few years pass, and another event comes up and it’s “Games! Games! Games!” again aaaand… forgotten. And on and on it goes…