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   Apple TV Preorders Begin 26 October 2015

   Josh Centers

   At the Wall Street Journal Digital Live conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook
   said that [1]preorders for the fourth-generation Apple TV will begin on
   Monday, 26 October 2015, and will ship later that week.

   As we reported in '[2]The Fourth-Generation Apple TV Is Coming at Last'
   (9 September 2015), the new Apple TV will feature faster hardware, a
   new Siri-enabled remote control, and an App Store. It will be available
   in two tiers: 32 GB for $149 and 64 GB for $299. The third-generation
   Apple TV will stick around at $69, although Apple hasn't said if it
   will gain a software update to resemble its new sibling more closely.

   The fourth-generation Apple TV will include beautiful video
   screensavers of China, Hawaii, London, New York City, and San
   Francisco. If you'd like to see what they'll look like while waiting
   for your Apple TV to arrive, Benjamin Mayo has [3]extracted them and
   posted them on his Web site.

   In other Apple TV news, Apple has added three channels to the
   third-generation Apple TV: CBS, NBC, and an Apple-TV exclusive channel,
   M2M, which focuses on fashion. The CBS app requires a $5.99 per-month
   [4]CBS All Access subscription for all but short clips (a one-week
   trial is available). CBS All Access also streams live TV in select
   markets. The NBC app offers full episodes of recent episodes, with
   brief ads. The NBC app ostensibly requires a activation with a cable
   provider, but I was never prompted to do so in my testing.

References

   1. http://9to5mac.com/2015/10/19/tim-cook-interview-apple-wsj/
   2. http://tidbits.com/article/15918
   3. http://benjaminmayo.co.uk/watch-all-the-apple-tv-aerial-video-screensavers
   4. http://www.cbs.com/all-access/

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