rprice54

Tile has a fatal flaw- no low battery alerts. When you activate a Tile it starts a 1 yr clock to remind you to change the battery in 12 months. But if your battery dies early you’re out of luck. Several times I’ be needed to find something, Tile couldn’t find it, and when I finally found it the old fashioned way the Tile battery was dead. I lost an expensive set of keys, keyfob, and post office key this way. Ever since then I just swap out all my Tile batteries every 6 months. 

I completely regret buying the ‘black’ (dark navy) braided loop. It looks like a cheap Amazon band on my pewter steel watch. Stays wet for hours- not a good fitness band. Looks cheap- not a good dressing up band. I wish I had gotten one of these instead.  

mac_128 said:

rprice54 said:

Well, that’s a dealbreaker for me. I don’t have access to those kind of speeds where I live. I’ll put that money back in my pocket and get a UHD disc player and keep buying discs. 

You'd be doing that anyway, or waiting hours to download a movie. I'm sure Apple cache's the movie on the expanded storage space for the ATV, so streaming it would only take a little pre-planning? Hopefully.

But if I could download the movie then once it’s stored I am good to go. I have my entire movie library stored on a NAS for Easy streaming to my current ATV. If I could do the same for 4K I would quit buying discs. 

As someone who has invested in Atmos the lack of a suitable streaming option has kept me in the BluRay camp as opposed to digital media. Vudu supports it on a few titles but Vudu is streaming only- and my home ISP isn’t up to the task. If the ATV5 adds support for Atmos I’ll be first in-line even though I already have ATV4. DTS:X would be nice as well. Doesn’t require any processing on the ATV end, just send the audio to the AVR and let it decode. But for folks like me Apple would gain additional movie sales, not just hardware. 

To me Atmos is very similar to 4K. Very few people I know have implemented either format yet but certainly the market is moving there. 

Admittedly the high high end home theater market seems to be contracting with millenials content to consume media on tiny screens. I’ll take my 120” projector screen and 7.4.2 Atmos setup over any commercial theater in my area.