I’ve seen a few posts here and there raving about the Apple TV box but it’s always occurred to me what’s so special about it?
A lot of my products are Apple and I’m starting to try and build a smart home (nothing crazy) but I have Sonos, Nest etc and I’m wondering what an Apple TV can offer me. I’ve read a few blogs but nothing seems to scream out at me.
Smart TV’s seem to have a lot of streaming apps and I gather I can AirPlay to it. One thing that I did find interesting though, I saw someone comment earlier that you can just chuck your AirPods on and it seemlessly connects (albeit very rare I’d need to actually do this, like it was suggested if the other half wanted to go to sleep I could carry on and watch tv with my AirPods).
What are the other worthwhile benefits?
if you're already getting internet via say Charter or Spectrum, you should be able to get the basic cable channels via the Spectrum app at not extra cost. I've tried and it seems that they have a deal there in place and you won't get access to the app on say FireTV, and I think they stopped supporting the Samsung apps on anything older then 5 years.
another bonus is the likelihood is that you have an apple phone. if you wanted to you can mirror stream from your phone to watch anything on there on the big screen, and you can use your iPhone as a remote. I've lost my Apple TV remote a dozen times, I'm rarely if ever misplacing my phone.