You should be waiting for Ultra Blu-Ray that will be coming out at some point. You should be watching on Blu-Ray in the first place. If you are such a die hard to watch movies at 24 fps, you sure wouldn’t be streaming them in the first place as the movie quality is downgraded from being heavily compressed. Huge Apple fan, as I own virtually 2 of everything of theirs, but they need to be called out for failures like this. It’d be akin to adding spurious samples to your digital audio files in order for it to match some other sampling rate. Watching a movie at its native frame rate is so buttery smooth and night and day compared to the juddery mess that results from artificially inserting frames to match a 60 Hz refresh rate. The old Boxee Box supported 24p, as does the Nvidia Shield TV.

Sadly, the competition (Fire TV, Chromecast, Roku) also inexplicably fail to provide this. No self-respecting movie enthusiast or videophile would never watch movies on this crap. Obviously not the fault of Plex, but this is such a joke that Apple yet again failed to provide away to watch movies at their native frame rate of 24 fps on this “premium” set top box. Who doesn’t love watching movies with artificially inserted frames? Am I right!? Pfff. Yay! another way to watch movies NOT at their native frame rate. At least I can make a full use of my 4k investment that I’ve paid for. I’m extremely hesitant to get any non-Apple alternative (everything in my home is apple), but I’m seriously considering to get a roku instead. But I’ve decided not to get it specifically because of its lack of 4K. Because lets face it, smart TV’s navigations are woeful, and this new Apple TV would finally let me throw away my TV remote forever. I always buy almost every Apple TV from the very beginning, and I was ecstatic about this new one: it’s the first Apple TV that will actually be useful other than just to AirPlay. Will I choose 1080k over 4k? Oh why would I?

Can I notice the difference, oh hell yea absolutely (mine is a 65″ from 2.5 meters away). And now that I’ve paid for it, why would I choose 1080p if the content has a 4k option available? I didn’t specifically set out to buy a 4K TV, but you can hardly find non-4K TV in the market these days. Hendry Luk - 8 years What? Why? I do give a shit.

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