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The pricey new Apple TV 4K is still the best streamer around
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Apple knows how to make a great streaming box to be the center of your home theater, but there are some misses with the new model.
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I’m sitting in front of my TV, puppy nuzzled up next to me, with four HomePods spread around my living room — two flanking my TV and one at either end of my couch — connected to the brand new Apple TV 4K. Young Anakin Skywalker hits the throttle and flies through the room. There hasn’t been an Apple surround sound system until now, and since it was announced, I was excited to try it out. And let me tell you, watching a pod race with an all-Apple audio setup is a whole lot of fun.
Surround sound across four HomePods is one of the flagship features of the fourth-gen Apple TV 4K, which is out tomorrow for $300. It’s an expensive streaming box — double and in some cases quadruple the price of competing options — that tries to earn its place in your living room with premium and convenient new features: a powerful chip, lots of storage, a trackable remote, and lots of AI. If you’re deep in the Apple ecosystem and willing to splurge, the box is a solid choice. But for everyone else, I’m not convinced the added features do enough to justify that steep new price.