Apple has launched an up to date model of the Apple TV 4K media participant. The brand new mannequin incorporates a sooner processor, improved HDR help, and higher connectivity.
The brand new Apple TV 4K options the A15 Bionic SoC. Apple doesn’t point out the core counts or clock speeds, which makes it troublesome to establish whether it is an identical to the one on the iPhone 14 fashions or a reduce down model. The corporate claims it has 50% sooner CPU and 30% sooner GPU efficiency in comparison with the A12 Bionic on the earlier era mannequin.
The brand new mannequin provides help for the HDR10+ normal alongside the present Dolby Imaginative and prescient, HDR10, and HLG codecs. Whereas HDR10+ is generally much like Dolby Imaginative and prescient in spec, it’s vastly much less common, with the one main service providing HDR10+ content material being Amazon Prime Video.
It is doable, nonetheless, that Apple plans to start out providing its personal library of content material in HDR10+ alongside different codecs. This can be attributable to the truth that a number of TV producers, most notably Samsung, don’t help Dolby Imaginative and prescient and as a substitute help HDR10+. Samsung is especially notable as not solely is it the most important TV producer right this moment but additionally the inventor of the HDR10+ normal and is thus unlikely to help the competing Dolby Imaginative and prescient normal anytime quickly.
And at last, the Siri Distant now has a USB-C port for charging as a substitute of Lightning.
The brand new Apple TV 4K can be out there in two variants. The 64GB variant contains Wi-Fi 6 connectivity however the brand new 128GB variant additionally provides Gigabit Ethernet, together with help for the Thread mesh networking protocol for controlling appropriate sensible residence units.
The Apple TV 4K can be out there Friday, November 4. The 64GB mannequin is priced at $129 and the 128GB mannequin with Ethernet at $149. The previous HD mannequin has been discontinued.
