Get ready for apple tv

The Apple TV finally gets 4K – but there’s a lot more to 4K than just pretty pictures

How to make the most of the latest Apple TV

We’ve had a long wait for 4K support on the Apple TV. You’ve been able to shoot your own 4K video on an iPhone for a couple of years now, while the 5K iMacs have provided editing capabilities since 2014, and Netflix launched 4K streaming with House

OfCards in the same year.

But there are reasons why Apple has held back with 4K support on the Apple TV until now. Apart from anything else, there aren’t many people who actually own 4K television sets, and it’s only recently that 4K sales have started to represent a sizeable chunk of the TV market. And while online services such as Netflix are already providing 4K video streaming there aren’t many people – especially here in the UK – with home broadband fast enough to handle it.

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People don’t upgrade their televisions every year in the same way that they do with smartphones, so we’re not going to suggest that your life is incomplete without a new 4K telly-box in your front room. But you can now buy 4K televisions for less than the cost of an iPhone, with