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Gazjam
13-11-2021, 12:04
Recently picked up an Apple TV 4K and it's a great thing.

Apple Music lossless sound quality very impressive, (better than my Room streaming setup?), best quality pic and sound too for streaming Apps like Netflix, Disney+ YouTube and the like.
Tried a few different ways to access these, built in TV app, Nvidia Shield, PlayStation 5 and the little Apple box betters them all.
No glitches, no picture issues... Feels solid and 'just works'.

Impressed with Apple Music,
Wondered what their Movie service and quality was like?

ITunes store offering some Billy bargains,
20 quid for all 10 Star Trek movies sound good?
Many of them remastered in 4K Dolby Vision too.

https://i.imgur.com/rsEjJm2.jpeg

Picked up another few bargains,
4K Dolby Vision versions for under a fiver. :stalks:

https://i.imgur.com/GPGJgj1.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/GZ6khXA.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/JAYivzX.jpeg

Picture quality wise, Apple's 4K Dolby Vision is a very small ball hair off the Disc of the same movie, played on my modded Oppo 203.

It's the Availability, cheap price and 90% pic n sound quality of Apple's offering compared to buying the Disc that's got me interested.
Original disc is better, but just a wee bit.

Mentioning this for folks that may be curious.
Streaming's came of age I think?

That said,
And similarly (IMO) to vinyl v digital, if you want that extra little bit of quality on the top go for physical media.

But it's diminishing returns stuff,
Watching Flash Gordon in 4K Dolby Vision, :eek:
And if you can get quality like this for a fiver..

Putting this out there for folks that might be curious., I've done the comparison.
struth
13-11-2021, 12:10
iv the older non 4k version box. its very good too. but prefer to just use the pc's with roon.
Gazjam
13-11-2021, 12:52
iv the older non 4k version box. its very good too. but prefer to just use the pc's with roon.

Same here Grant,

especially for Tidal and Qobuz intergration, Roon interface is awesome.
Just need to get my streaming setup properly sorted, be fun to get that up to snuff again.
struth
13-11-2021, 13:05
Same here Grant,

especially for Tidal and Qobuz intergration, Roon interface is awesome.
Just need to get my streaming setup properly sorted, be fun to get that up to snuff again.

ive quite a few apple films available on that ; certainly over a hundred, but i can access with amazon 4k box too. then i have plex films and music ; films are my old dvds. they come out quite well tbh think plex can be used on apple too
vinylsnail
24-11-2021, 18:45
I absolutely love my Apple TV 4K, but didn’t know about any offers of films through iTunes…I’ll go and investigate! Thanks for the heads-up!


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Gazjam
20-01-2022, 18:26
Cool.

What have you bought on Itunes then? :)



I absolutely love my Apple TV 4K, but didn’t know about any offers of films through iTunes…I’ll go and investigate! Thanks for the heads-up!


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vinylsnail
20-01-2022, 19:22
Cool.

What have you bought on Itunes then? :)

I bought that star trek set! It’s a bargain lol.


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Gazjam
21-01-2022, 07:37
There’s Sales on all the time, always worth checking out.
If you see it going cheap at the time, my advice is buy it when you see it.

The entire series, Remastered all 5 seasons, of “Babylon 5” was available for £25.
Next week when I looked and wanted to buy the price had gone up to £25 a Season!

This was because word had got out of its Creator working on a Reboot of the series…
So prices can change.




I bought that star trek set! It’s a bargain lol.


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vinylsnail
23-01-2022, 21:29
There’s Sales on all the time, always worth checking out.
If you see it going cheap at the time, my advice is buy it when you see it.

The entire series, Remastered all 5 seasons, of “Babylon 5” was available for £25.
Next week when I looked and wanted to buy the price had gone up to £25 a Season!

This was because word had got out of its Creator working on a Reboot of the series…
So prices can change.

Oooh. I missed that. I have a little check every so often. [emoji106]


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