Apple TV is a device designed for streaming movies and TV shows to your HDTV, similar to Roku and Google's Chromecast. You can also listen to and watch podcasts on it. But what really sets Apple TV apart from the competition is how it interacts with your other Apple devices like the iPad, iPhone, and MacBook.
Just In! The Apple TV 4K is here, and it has both 4K resolution (as the name implies) and HDR support, which means it can work with the latest TVs, projectors and content formats for better pictures, brighter colors and generally improved visuals. But neither 4K nor HDR are new tricks, and in fact this basically means Apple is catching up with a mature field where streaming customers have a lot of existing options.
pple TV is late to this particular party, and joins Roku, Amazon, Google and Nvidia with set-top boxes that do both 4K and HDR streaming. In fact, when the new redesigned Apple TV launched in October, 2015, the Roku 4 already offered 4K video, and the second-generation Fire TV also debuted late in 2015 packing 4K capabilities.
So how does Apple’s first foray into 4K stack up to the rest of the field? Find it out at TechCrunch.