I downloaded the Apple TV preview for Windows today. I have a bunch of movies in my itunes library and I was curious if it, like the Disney app, allows higher quality playback than the web browser which is limited to 1080p SDR.
So the good news is that yes it does all the way up to 4k HDR with dolby vision.
But does the player really need to be 180 Mb in size?
And FWIW, I’d wait a bit unless watching the content on a Windows system is absolute top priority as to the say the app is both buggy and has some rough edges is an understatement including blue screening my surface pro twice so far.
It does run in x86 emulation on my pro 9 5g reasonably fast, though like I said in my original post, still has significant stability issues.
BTW: Not clear as to why, but the first time you launch it on an ARM system, it takes a REALLY long time to load, so much so you might think it’s hung.
Subsequent launches are a lot faster. And our writer that has a Galaxy Book (ARM) also confirms it runs reasonably well after the first launch and the videos look very good on the OLED display
Just saw a post about this - ArsTechnica - but no mention of problems, other than sluggishness at times, in the article or comments (the comments, however, jump all over the place in Apple/Windows interfacing and other iTunes alternatives).
We’re not the only place folks stray from the topic…
@JoeS Update, the engineer I mentioned does have a Galaxy Book, but she must be one of the 100 or so people that were able to buy the intel version before Samsung rapidly discontinued it.
I did reach out to Apple to see if/when WOA native support is coming, and I’ll let you know what they say
