New Apple TV announced with new remote and color balancing feature

 

3 days ago Apple announced a new Apple TV 4k with a new remote and A12 Bionic Chip. It supports higher frame rate HDr, Dolby Vision and 60 fps.

The coolest feature which should at least hit some previous models is part of tvOS 14.5 according to 9 to 5  Mac, is color balancing using your iphone. 

This will not color balance your tv, but instead the output of your Apple TV to correct for your TV’s color balance! Wow! Apple needs to make an SDK for this feature, as I would love to have it in Adobe Premiere and DaVinci resolve on my Mac!

It still doesn’t account for Apple’s weird color shifts on the Mac. Be interesting to see how this balances for your own clips played back on an Apple TV from Premiere or Resolve, but for streaming and purchased movies this should be a godsend.

NBC/Universal’s new streaming service Peacock has launched, and it claims to be free, free, free, free, but it really isn’t

So NBC/Universal launched it’s much vaunted Peacock streaming service last night and I took a look at what is available.

And yes there is free content with commercials, but all their original shows and even shows like Cheers only allow you to watch one episode for free before you have to pay for their premium content starting at $4.99 a month with commercials.

What first struck me was it’s dearth of content. Each category that came up seemed awful short and so many of the shows repeat again and again.

And how much of the content is paid. And I wouldn’t mind that since some is free if it with adds, but it the campaigns that said Free, free, free, free, free, free, free, free which makes me question it more. It actually makes me think they are going to get sued for saying it was all free!

As for the content, this to me is just like CBS all access, if there is something I will watch I will pay for a month, and if not I won’t care a lick about it. Maybe once the new Battlestar Galactica comes out, but really I would be happier with a continuation of the original instead of the reboot.