Apple TV
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
6warn against
Nov 25, 2025first mention
Oct 14, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Some apps are great (Netflix, AppleTV) and are smart enough to turn off the iPhone screen.”
“It just sits in the cabinet happily running the macOS TV program with the video files on an external hard drive.”
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“I use Apple TV on every TV and skip the TV's built-in apps entirely.”
“Apple TV’s 4K content is given plenty of bandwidth.”
“Apple TV consistently has higher quality content.”
Caveats and dissent
“They will share it with 3rd parties for advertising.”
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“None of these are of any quality of what Apple used to be.”
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All comments 15
“They will share it with 3rd parties for advertising.”
“Your viewing habits are not mined by Apple TV the same way that a smart TV does it.”
“Some apps are great (Netflix, AppleTV) and are smart enough to turn off the iPhone screen.”
“It just sits in the cabinet happily running the macOS TV program with the video files on an external hard drive.”
“I use Apple TV on every TV and skip the TV's built-in apps entirely.”
“The Apple TV app is terrible.”
My google dongle got progressively worse and worse. Frequent disconnects, I found out you had to like orientate it a special way, youtube kept having issues. Dumped it and switched to my built in LG OS (WebOS based I think). Works fine, does basically the same thing as my Google dongle did without the slow degradation march
“Apple TV’s 4K content is given plenty of bandwidth.”
“Apple TV consistently has higher quality content.”
“None of these are of any quality of what Apple used to be.”
“Apple TV gates them behind a subscription”
“Apple TV is touted as having no ads, but it really does”
“The privacy policy literally includes that they do?”
“I was so pissed with the Apple TV player's performance on less-than-lightspeed internet connections”
“Compare the 1.25 video thumbnails shown on the apple tv app”