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Planning on switching to AppleTV (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by IAskSoMnyQuestions@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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I have a google chromecast (w GoogleTV) and the UI and lag is becoming a nuisance.

With Apple TV, do you get apps like Twitch and YouTube? Do livestreams work well? The most common apps I use are Twitch and YouTube but also Max, Netflix, Crunchyroll and Amazon Video.

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[–] afharo@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I’ve only used YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon Video. All three work great.

I’ve had bad experiences with other services like DAZN because their implementation of HLS is faulty. But, IMO, that’s not AppleTV to blame (other than not supporting, the competitor standard MPEG-DASH): when their HLS transcoding is misbehaving, it just doesn’t work on any Apple product (iPad/iPhone DAZN apps, DAZN’s website on Safari, etc.). Those days, I end up airplaying the content from my MacBook, watching it on Chrome. But again, that’s a technical issue on DAZN’s end.

TLDR, if the services you’re interested in work on your Apple device, they should be fine on Apple TV. And I still haven’t found any streaming service without an app in Apple TV.