{"id":4544,"date":"2012-03-22T13:04:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T18:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2014-07-12T12:51:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T16:51:56","slug":"anandtech-review-of-the-apple-tv-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/22\/anandtech-review-of-the-apple-tv-3\/","title":{"rendered":"AnandTech Review of the Apple TV 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/print\/5687\">Brian Klug<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/print\/5687\"><p>If you&rsquo;re squarely entrenched in the Apple ecosystem, there&rsquo;s really no reason to not have an Apple TV. AirPlay mirroring (essentially WiFi Display) and AirPlay for audio (which is ALAC at around 1 Mbps) continues to be a big selling point. In addition iCloud support for all your purchased iTunes store content is an additional plus. On the other hand, if you&rsquo;ve been holding out for a 1080p Netflix streamer, AirPlay endpoint, and iCloud box, the Apple TV 3 isn&rsquo;t bad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>I just set mine up and found that video does indeed look a lot better than before, though not like Blu-ray.<\/p>\r\n<p>What&rsquo;s disappointing is that Apple TV still doesn&rsquo;t offer a great way to view my photos. I&rsquo;m not sure whether the Flickr and iTunes Home Sharing support were redesigned for 1080p, but either way the images look very JPEG-compressed. I suppose it&rsquo;s possible that the higher resolution makes this more evident. But then why not download larger source images? Also, the Flickr app is still limited to displaying photos marked as public.<\/p>\r\n<p>Using <a href=\"http:\/\/ipont.jubilo.ca\/ip\/flickstackr\/\">FlickStackr<\/a> over AirPlay offers better quality. However, it doesn&rsquo;t use the full height of the screen, and it&rsquo;s a bit dodgy getting into, and staying in, AirPlay mode.<\/p>\r\n<p>AirPlay using the iPhone&rsquo;s Photos app is much faster and more reliable than FlickStackr, but the image quality is not great. It seems better than the Apple TV&rsquo;s native apps. However, the photos look a bit blocky and show some compression artifacts.<\/p>\r\n<p>Plugging a USB card reader into my Blu-ray player offers the best image quality but the least convenience.<\/p>\r\n<p>Update (2012-04-14): Even the movie posters within the interface look heavily JPEG-compressed. There are halos of artifacts around all the text.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Klug: If you&rsquo;re squarely entrenched in the Apple ecosystem, there&rsquo;s really no reason to not have an Apple TV. AirPlay mirroring (essentially WiFi Display) and AirPlay for audio (which is ALAC at around 1 Mbps) continues to be a big selling point. 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