After making his way to the iPhone and iPad in 2013, Sonic the Hedgehog has returned to the TV screen, with the original game now available on Apple TV 4.
Apple has released 'Apple Events' app for Apple TV 4 on the tvOS App Store. The underlying channel that sits behind the app affords viewers with the ability to watch the live stream for this upcoming, and presumably all future, Apple media events.
Popular media center software Kodi has received a new version 17 build for Apple TV 4 which brings the build number to Kodi 17.0-ALPHA1 Git:2016-03-10-dbe61d0, and comes in a month after previous major release.
Apple has today made available for download tvOS 9.2 beta 6 for Apple TV 4 to developers, just over a week after the fifth iteration was made available for testing, and couple of days after beta 6 of watchOS 2.2, OS X 10.11.4, iOS 9.3 was released.
As one person found out, the Sling TV app for Apple TV 4 was briefly available to download from the tvOS App Store today, with those quick enough to spot it able to download the app and use it without issue.
Apple TV 4 owners now have the luxury of interacting with a number of additional apps that offer support for the platform's Siri universal search feature. Support for these new channel apps follows hot on the heels of Apple adding support for three additional apps earlier this month.
Real Racing 3 has arrived on the Apple TV 4 adding split-screen multiplayer mode, making it the perfect feature for large HDTVs. Here are the details on the additional features as well.
Music video service Vevo already had a app on Apple TV's App Store since the set-top box and tvOS App Store's debut last fall, but that app wasn't much different to the HTML-based app found on 3rd-gen Apple TVs. Today, Vevo has released a refreshed version of their app which is truly native to tvOS platform. It's available as a free update right now.
The fourth-generation Apple TV has managed to prove itself as an extremely capable market leading streaming set-top box in the relatively short period of time that it has been around. There are a number of features embedded within that ultimately appeal to those looking for a streaming set-top box of this nature, with universal search being one of them. It essentially affords users with the luxury of performing a single search across multiple services and channels with the aim of accessing content quickly and efficiently. In an effort to improve the feature, Apple has now extended universal search, including Siri, to support three additional apps.
Developer Steve Troughton-Smith has modified his in-house Apple TV 4 channel-streaming app to allow picture-in-picture viewing, showing it all off in a video.
