Apple TV Updated With New CBS All Access, NBC, and M2M Channels

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Posted October 20, 2015 at 6:37pm by iClarified

Apple has updated the Apple TV with new CBS, NBC, and Made to Measure video channels. The new content comes ahead of the upcoming Apple TV 4 release next week.

Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that the company will start taking orders for the new Apple TV on Monday, October 26th with shipments beginning later in the week.

Apple TV Updated With New CBS All Access, NBC, and M2M Channels

CBS All Access:
CBS All Access provides instant viewing of over 7,500 episodes for $6.99/month. It also provides Live TV in over 100 markets. New episodes are viewable on the CBS App on the next day.

NBC:
The NBC app lets you watch full episodes but cable sign-in is needed for some features.

Made to Measure:
Made to Measure (M2M) is the first-ever fashion video network available exclusively on Apple TV. M2M covers the world of fashion and style – past, present and future — through fresh and culturally relevant storytelling. M2M features original programming, classic fashion films and runway shows from the world’s top designers. M2M’s original series and documentaries highlight the people, issues, trends and events that have defined and transformed the fashion landscape.

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The iDevice Pro - October 24, 2015 at 2:02am

That was quite a vast and unentertaining tour of your rather extensive electronics collection. Also, I completely agree with you that devices using less bandwidth only make sense. The sad truth of it is that companies will not embrace that technology any time soon because implementing those changes in hardware and software overhauls would cost millions. Therefore, the statement in which you proclaim the "HTPC running XBMC" (by the way, it's now called Kodi...I would think with all your current hardware and software knowledge you would know that) to pretty much be a waste of effort and money, and had no benefits is just plain silly. It is a means to an end. You speak of Netflix and companies of the sort, but if you are giving these companies your hard (or maybe not-so-hard) earned money, then THAT my friend is what is a fruitless waste of money and effort when you can purchase said "HTPC running XBMC" for the cost of a couple months' bills from those companies. Hell...if you pay one month's bill from Comcast-Xfinity or Charter, you could buy two of those "HTPC's running XBMC" with the money wasted on a full package bundle bill. So while your rant may have made a lot of sense and was perfectly sane in the technology and theory department, it was just plain nonsensical and impractical given the state of things in today's media market. Taking also into account that the major overhaul that you are speaking of won't take place for at least 5 years, and that just adds to the fact that the "HTPC running XBMC" is a perfect fit for today's, tomorrow's, and the next few years' needs. I mean, shit....even wireless ac isn't the standard today. Wireless N still is, and ac has been around how long? Furthermore...what happens when you buy these early models of the future standard? When that standard is finally implemented...those devices are virtually as obsolete as the devices which they were meant to replace...because they were 1st generation. So while you may be if the school of having technology that is ahead of its time, I'm more of the school of having the most practical and efficient solution to the technological time of which I am currently a part of. Future proof all you want, but I would rather save my money and live in the present.

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zyme_ - October 22, 2015 at 8:26am

Never realized before this web form removes new lines and blank lines.....

justabrake - October 20, 2015 at 9:04pm

Skip the 3 and get the 4

Eduardo Marques - October 20, 2015 at 8:18pm

How do you capture screenshots from the Apple TV?

zyme_ - October 21, 2015 at 9:27am

I'd assume HDMI pass-through capture card (kinda like a "TV Tuner" card - though sometimes they're external USB connected devices).

The iDevice Pro - October 24, 2015 at 6:39pm

If you are speaking of an Apple TV 1 or 2, then jailbreak, and install screen capture. There are detailed directions if you simply Google "screen shot Apple TV". If you aren't or can't be jailbroken...then it isn't a natively supported function.

justabrake - October 20, 2015 at 6:46pm

Roku will still be king and Netflix will be the choice always for movies

Butterspider - October 20, 2015 at 7:07pm

Second this prediction

wsly - October 20, 2015 at 7:46pm

Sorry but Roku has a horrible user interface. I have a Roku, a Chromecast, and an Apple TV. The Apple TV is leaps and bounds better than the Roku. But you are probably right on the Netflix.

justabrake - October 20, 2015 at 7:58pm

what Roku box do you have ?

wsly - October 20, 2015 at 8:27pm

We had a total of three Roku 2 boxes. Two XD's and one XS. Both XD's died within a year and the XS is the only one still working. Have not tried a Roku 3. The Apple TV has the better more fluid user interface over the Roku's we have had and has always been the preferred device in our home.

zyme_ - October 21, 2015 at 9:33am

You can easily find android devices with much more powerful hardware well under 100, then you'll have the horsepower to decode HEVC [x265] (and be ready for it is more commonly used) better quality that takes up less space/bandwidth.

The iDevice Pro - October 21, 2015 at 7:15pm

Two things....that $100 price tag was for a $40 Raspberry PI2, a $10 enclosure for it, a $20 Ultra MicroSD for it, a $15 remote keyboard for it, and a $15 HDMI cable. The full setup. If you can get a setup that is more powerful with all those accessories for less, go for it. But I don't think you can. Not while retaining all the options you have with a PI2. HEVC is still in it's public infancy. While Kodi supports it, the PI2 probably can't. But then again neither does a Roku, FireTV...etc. so if you want to future proof with some Android device that isn't widely supported like the PI2, be my guest. For now the PI2 is the perfect answer. But my guess is that we will see a PI3 that is HEVC compliant by he time it is a compression used in the mainstream.

zyme_ - October 22, 2015 at 8:23am

Some of the less expensive ones hover under $50, and come with a remote - not to mention the use of voice controls, leaving you with enough spare change for a Bluetooth (or go Logitech, get a unifying adapter and have a bunch of wireless devices using only one port and keeping Bluetooth free). Then you'll still have more cup power, Ram, and a ton more USB ports alongside all its output options. Not to mention a pretty silk smooth package manager, access to the wealth of android apps/games, etc. HEVC just needs some more exposure, most the torrents of questionable legality get an HEVC release as well, every initial seeder rushes to get the x264 and xvid copies out asap and slack off on the HEVC. Pretty soon nvidia is going to release cuda based code with their drivers making the vast majority of people with decade+ old machines capable of decoding it if they have a nvidia graphics card, and a i7 quad core 3.5ghz pc like my laptop from 2011 can software encode 4K in HEVC at 60fps - 720p encodes at 260fps. % saved over x264 decreases with higher resolutions but 720p is 52% smaller with x265's [current up-to-date codec] than a matching quality x264. That's taking a lot of space since a high detailed 720p TV episode, 40-50 minutes w/o commercials adverages 800mb, and movies tend to be around 2GB each w/x264. All it really needs is more public exposure and x264 would already be non-defacto except for broke people who's only way to get the media on their tv is with a really old embedded device (like me and my JB atv2). And really I could setup plex on a desktop to reencode videos to x264 just for streaming to xbmc on my atv2 - and I could still use my ancient device - she'd never notice a performance hit and I could still free up half my storage space and use inadequate hardware smoothly. My 2006 Lenovo Thinkpad can software decode HEVC with its 32bit dual core 1.8ghz CPUs using VLC at 1080P and it's still runs smooth, my ipad2mini and iPhone 5S are dual core 1ghz arm64's and they run 1080p HEVC smooth, and can even AirPlay it OR Miricast. My old iPhone 4s was a single core arm32 800mhz, it could handle 720i on x265 but no higher. Most cable companies use 720i with the majority of their HD channels as it is, though up scaling at the DVR/cable box up scales so the tv isn't announcing that constantly for people to notice. only DTV customers have access in the states to a large variety of true 1080p (last I checked FIOS was mostly 1080i and was filled with tons more compression artifacts than I've seen in any equivalent resolution video file or Internet stream) and most ppl arn't the wiser so there really isn't much of any reason why x264 hasn't turned as common as divx files for at least most the video people stream and record. Online streaming could cost more for a website if using a WebHost who bills by used cpu cycles so I would expect *some* to lag behind. Even pirates would make up any time lost encoding by the time their release reaches a Half-dozen seeds because of the decrease for (re)distribution. I could add also, Verizon users probably wouldn't have their current level2 bandwidth issues choking Netflix streams anymore if HEVC was the default codec... If you want to argu a reason to use different equipment then ecosystems created and mass-produced for maximum profit and minimal cost to suit it's purpose, find something which introduces something truly missing from the experience, complementary in such a way where there's a real sense of a void after going back to being without it. I mean the countless components, the inexpensive hardware interfacing, nearly endless possibilities, some creative ideas might make it worth considering but as its suggested, just as a cheap HTPC running XBMC, there are no advantages unless you can leverage that dev aspect., A quad core 2ghz arm64 setup has plenty of headroom to decode any HEVC without a hardware device specifically to assist. It's an unneeded component that will be almost if not completely unused in a few years whenever the next leap in encoding takes place, I'd rather have the additional future-proofing or at least re-purpose-capable characteristics of a much faster CPU rather then the built in obsolescence that brings. If nothing else use something With a nvidia cuda cores based GPU that way it's a reprogrammable hardware device assisting - if it's in the price range.

The iDevice Pro - October 24, 2015 at 6:32pm

Oops...did a comment to the article itself instead of a comment to your last post. See the top of the thread. I will add that as a widely supported platform, I see the Raspberry PI2 as the answer for the general public in the case of streaming TV boxes. As I said, it is a widely supported platform, is readily available and there are tons of support sites and threads to answer any question one may have about it, Debian Linux as a whole, or Kodi for that matter. It's just easy to acquire, easy to set up....easy to deal with. And the best thing? IT DOESNT HAVE TO RUN ANDROID. Persons with advanced technical knowledge will find other devices on their own, it's what we do. But as for the average Joe? I firmly believe the RPI2 is the best solution.

justabrake - October 24, 2015 at 6:46pm

went out and bought a firestick put kodi on it and it's awesome Not easy working it with a mac OS but free is free !

The iDevice Pro - October 24, 2015 at 9:10pm

Awesome!!! Kodi is great. Ill give you a tip on addons. Add http://srp.nu and kodi.metalkettle.co as sources and get the 1Channel and Genesis addons. They kick ass. You can also get Icefilms, but you have to download the ElDorado repo as a zip and install it. I'm not aware of a source to add it from like the others. I just added it from USB flash drive on my Raspberry. The version of Icefilms on Super Repo doesn't work, (v1.6), you have to get the current version from ElDorado (v1.16)