I currently have Apple TV 4K 1st gen, now I’m thinking of making the jump to 3rd gen. What do you guys think? Also I just bought a Samsung UHD Crystal TV, I’m wondering if I’ll notice a difference if I switch to 3rd gen
Bro it’s older than what you have
It’s not a deal, it is the old 2013 Apple TV.
If you have any apple TV 4k, this is a downgrade. It’s an Apple TV “HD” 3rd gen.
If someone paid me to have an ATV 3 I’d never use it because I want to watch on ATV4K.
I keep one of these because it has one advantage. This is the first AppleTV that can do a sort of LAN setup; you can prepare it in such a way that you can directly airplay to it from your iphone/ipad without the need for WiFi. I use this sometimes on holidays or when doing presentations
Crap. I just bought one of these 2 months ago to give it a try. I paid $79. I was disappointed by the PQ on Netflix and DTV Stream playback. I’m not convinced a 4k would be any better.
Trying to dump mine for $50. ☹️
That’s a 2015 device that only does 1080p. If you have a 1080p TV or TV that does good up scaling it’s not too bad but on 4K TV midrange TV the picture will be bad with Netflix. Netflix streams 1080p at very low bitrates.
So apparently I have a 4K TV (I didn’t really pay attention, I bought it from my son who moved across the country). I’ll have to figure out if there’s a way to dumb it down to 1080.
But if I did upgrade to a 4K ATV, it would improve? Or would I have to upgrade my Netflix plan?
You need to upgrade to the 4K plan for the best picture on content that is available in 4K. 1080p content might look slightly better with the Apple TV 4K because it will up scale it to 4K, your TV has poor up scaling , Netflix 1080p streams are low bitrate though, even their 4K streams are lower than other services.
Insignia TVs are not know for their picture quality so the Apple TV will not be able overcome the shortcomings of the TV. SDR will look better than HDR on that model it does not get bright enough to display HDR properly.
Thanks for the info. It’s very helpful.
Might be a nice AirPlay device for a second tv or something
They make great airplay1 devices for older analog amps, receivers. And they have optical out. Use an ATV3 to Schiit Modi3+ DAC connected to a Scott 370R, for example. No airplay2 features, but Apple Music doesn’t down convert lossless from iOS with airplay1.
That remote was so bad I stopped using my AppleTV and switched to Chromecast. I didn’t switch back to AppleTV until Apple put a remote in the iPhone control center.
If it is the generation still jail breakable, buy it.
Curious, I still have one but whats the advantage of jailbreaking?
That’s older than what you have now. I had one one of those when they first came out.
Yeah this is a dead product, get a refund, you can’t watch Netflix or YouTube in it
Don’t. Too old.
With the TV you bought you shouldn’t hunt for the 4K 2022 version anyway. The TV you bought is unfortunately their lowest low-end model cannot get bright enough or dark enough to be able to take advantage of HDR10+.
