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Apple TV 4 features and release date time frame has been revealed in a new and detailed report. More details can be found right here.

Apple TV 4 could release this fall in 2015, according to an analyst. More details on the development can be found here.

If you have even the vaguest grasp on Australian culture, you'll know that the sport of cricket is popular across the nation. In fact, it's quite a massive deal to many Aussie sports fans, and so today's news that Apple TV now includes its very own Cricket Australia channel will surely appease cricket lovers down under.

The YouTube App for Apple TV has just been updated, bringing the client in line with variants found on other platforms. With a better streamlined interface to ease users' access to functions such as subscriptions and search, akin to the design found on other set-top box clients, the new YouTube app is now also ad-supported.

Apple TV has been steadily growing as one of Apple's hallmark products, even if the company never really intended it to be one. From a simple novelty to an actually usable content provision platform, Apple has grown its set top box steadily through the increase of newer and more channels available for streaming content from. Today, two new channels join the foray; Hallmark Cards' Feeln network, and FYI network from A&E, which are available right now should you own an Apple TV.

In adding a bunch of new features to its OS X and iOS software just lately, Apple also made time for the oft-forgotten Apple TV, which was pushed to software version 7.0 a short while ago. But one of the flagship features to be integrated with the wider Apple device family - peer-to-peer AirPlay - is limited only to the very latest revision of the Apple TV hardware released in 2013, which is a bit of a downer for those in ownership of what they believed was a compliant 3rd-gen Apple TV.

As well as rolling out the big iOS 8 update today, Apple has also unleashed a sizeable update to the Apple TV software. Given that the company's set-top runs on a variant of iOS, it makes a great deal of sense for these two releases to coincide, and after the purchase of Beats Electronics earlier on this year, an official Beats app for Apple TV is among the changes that have been pushed with this latest update. With Family Sharing and a plethora of other implementations, this is one update worth having, and below, we've got the full low-down.