September 9, Apple held a Grand event, during which there had been a number of unexpected announcements. Few believed that the iPad Pro will still be shown to the public. Moreover, contrary to the covenants of jobs, perfect, in his opinion, the 9.7-inch tablet is not received the annual update, and a 12.9-inch model has acquired a 99-dollar stylus.
The “mini-pill” not received such a significant upgrade and has become a copy of the iPad Air 2, with the exception of CPU – iPad mounted in a compact A8 instead AH as his older brother. Another announcement that surprised the audience, became ideologically modified Apple TV new generation. We now discuss.
Of course, the real breakthrough and was rethinking the empowerment of the gadget’s properties. New control panel has gained a touch panel, through which he can play the role of a controller. Besides hardware improvements, Apple has equipped the set-top box of its own operating system tvOS, details of which appeared on the Internet an hour before the presentation.
From now on, and virtual assistant Siri will honor with his presence the owners of a new television system is more modest to call the device simply does not work – and will tell you what film or TV show to see better.
However, for all this diversity of innovations we have forgotten the most promoted in recent times the trend is 4K resolution. It has been almost a standard in the world videos, all new TVs get the matrix with the fancy name of “UltraHD” having 3840 pixels horizontally. However, the presentation of the new Apple TV nobody never said a word about the support of such resolution. Do consumers have to settle for watching movies in Full HD?
Just last month, there was information that the new Apple TV will not only support 4K transfer through proprietary AirPlay service, but about the complete lack of interaction with UltraHD resolution was not a word. Does the fact that Apple software has disabled the technology is not yet clear. As computer programmers say, it’s not a bug, but a feature. It’s possible that 4K will appear in the next update and will be presented as a real “breakthrough”.
On the other hand, will not criticize Apple and wait for the start of sales of new products. Until then, try to understand. Let’s start with the fact that the Apple TV on the official website, as the technical characteristics declared support for the new HDMI 1.4 port. He’s in a better way different from the old generation the opportunity to interact with the 3D video, and thereby 4K resolution at 30Hz. HDMI previous generation could only work with Full HD. Moreover, another innovation is available broadcast full-frame with 4K is 4000 pixels horizontally at a frequency of 24 Hz. With this in mind, a reasonable question arises: why, in fact, Apple is bringing the technical ability to use advanced technology, nothing about it said?
This can be explained as follows: perhaps the owners of 4K TVs will be able in the settings Apple TV connect support proper authorization. And those who have TVs with Full HD, this feature is not so necessary.
Some experts tend to believe that the A8 processor that is installed in the console, could simply not cope with video in 4K and even more of its transmission over the air via AirPlay. However, the developers of the WALTR app visually confirmed that the chip is powerful enough and quite a pull display such a high resolution without artifacts.
In other words, technically Apple TV 2015 is able to play videos in 4K resolution. On the other hand, as mentioned above, this format may be programmatically added to one of the next updates tvOS as the new key functions.
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