One of the most important new Apple TV 4K features makes use of the color sensor on your iPhone in conjunction with Apple TV 4K to calibrate the box to improve your TV picture. New Apple TV 4K vs old Apple TV 4K: iPhone calibration But perhaps we’ll see even better video quality in the future. Apple TV and iTunes 4K content already looks pretty good. What HDMI 2.1 does ensure is that the quality of streamed video could, in theory, be much higher. The only question would be if the processor could support decoding 8K at some point. However, the new Apple TV does seem to have hardware that could support higher-resolution video. This brings with it the potential for much higher data rates, from 18gbps (gigabits per second) up to 48gbps.Īpple doesn’t support 8K video, and it’s certainly not in the specs. The original Apple TV 4K had an HDMI 2.0 connection, and this has now been upgraded to HDMI 2.1. New Apple TV 4K vs old Apple TV 4K: HDMI 2.1 In theory, if your favorite sport broadcast has an Apple TV app, you might see games in HDR and at high frame rates in the future. While movies tend not to use high frame rates, TV shows sometimes do, which is important when it comes to sports.
It also opens Apple TV up to even more streaming options. Adding support for HDR video at 60 fps means that anyone with an iPhone 12 can make use of its Dolby Vision support at 4K/60 and stream to the box in the best possible quality. There’s a lot of possible excitement here. Previously, the Apple TV supported 4K HDR (Dolby Vision) video at 30 fps (frames per second). The headline functionality here is the increase in the maximum supported frame rate. (Image credit: Apple) New Apple TV 4K vs old Apple TV 4K: High frame rate
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