The Apple TV app is lastly arriving on quite a few Sony tv units – as promised last year – which suggests you can stream something you’ve got bought from iTunes in addition to load up content material from Apple TV Plus.
As reported by FlatPanelsHD, the all-important firmware model 6.4960 is now rolling out to high-end 2018 Sony TVs, in addition to fashions from 2019 and 2020, in Europe (it is “coming quickly” to the US). Beforehand solely the Sony XH90/X900H had Apple TV Plus assist, which arrived final month.
The arrival of the Apple TV app follows on from the AirPlay 2 support that current Sony units have been given. The streaming protocol developed by Apple, like Google’s Chromecast performance, permits you to beam audio and video to a TV out of your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
With a local Apple TV app on board your Sony television, you can watch digital content material from Apple with out the necessity for a separate gadget, and the app itself works very very like the TV app that seems on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
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As a part of the push to advertise the launch of Apple TV Plus final 12 months, Apple additionally started to make it simpler for customers to get at content material (together with the brand new streaming service) from televisions and streaming sticks that weren’t made by Apple.
Whereas beforehand the Apple TV box had been nearly the one choice for getting iTunes films and exhibits up on the massive display, during the last 12 months Apple has labored arduous to get its TV app on units just like the Roku dongles and the Amazon Hearth TV {hardware}.
The Apple TV app is even accessible on the next-gen consoles simply launched by Microsoft and Sony, supplying you with much more alternatives to observe films and exhibits you’ve got purchased from Apple, or one thing out of your Apple TV Plus streaming subscription.
Google is following go well with too: its new Chromecast with Google TV gadget introduces a Google TV interface that runs on high of Android TV, bringing collectively your whole viewing apps and content material in a single interface, very like the Apple TV app tries to.
By way of 9to5Mac
