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I just finished setting up a custom router with dns ad blocking. Next comes a media player so I can purge this smart TV filth from my household.
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Apple TV was the best media thing I’ve bought in over a decade. No ads ever, incredibly responsive (league of its own compared to stuff like Roku), and is able to stream from my Jellyfin server. Beautiful interface, fast, clean, simple controller with a battery life that is easily over a year. Just a really good product. Roku can suck by nuts. Literal full page ads in a product that advertises that it has zero of them. Even the most expensive version. Fuck Roku.
I agree. I switched from Roku to apple tv recently (and I don't really have apple devices), and it was worth it.
I've found the shield pro is better, especially for customizability.
Same here. One is the best made TV boxes period.
how does it go for codec support out of Jellyfin? I'm starting to collect and also rip AV1 content, which is fine for computers and phones (and my newer TV does it natively), but trying to find a streambox that wouldn't need to transcode it is proving harder than expected
Perfectly. I’ve never encountered a codec my Apple TV couldn’t play smooth as butter. Been watching a lot of AV1 anime lately, never needs to transcode. I use Infuse Player for its Dolby Vision support, because that’s the only format the native Jellyfin app has trouble with, but Infuse is also just a really solid app in general, and for me is the perfect way to consume my Jellyfin server. But the native Jellyfin app is also solid, and there are some other players which would definitely meet your needs (MrMC for example is very good, but not as polished as Infuse).
It software decodes AV1 which seems to work fine. For Plex, I think you still need to do this: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/12pe5tx/av1_playback_on_apple_tv/
The bigger limitation is audio. The Apple TV does lossless audio but what it does not do is TrueHD/Atmos or DTS:X. With Infuse TrueHD and DTS-HD MA are decoded on the device and sent out as LPCM in the same quality they were received. With Plex TrueHD is transcoded to FLAC by the server and sent out as LPCM by the Apple TV. Atmos and DTS:X metadata is lost. The Apple TV will never send out DD+. It will be sent out as 5.1 or 7.1 LPCM. DD+/Atmos is sent out Dolby MAT encapsulated in LPCM.
Long story short, it's good enough if you don't use atmos ceiling speakers.
Shield pro is the best, end of story
Are they still making those or are they all 5+ years old (2019 was latest I could find on eBay)?
The last model they made was 2019. I highly doubt we'll see a refresh.
Have a previous gen 4K, and have not encountered any issues with Jellyfin on streaming. There's a spectacularly annoying bug that you lose your config if the atv is full to capacity - and with kids in the house it means frequent logins are required. The iOS client also seems to lag on features and updates compared to the other clients, but other than that niggle it's been great.