apple tv not to be confused with apple tv's streaming box or an app that's on your smartphone
this is apple tv plus their apple's streaming service is it worth it that's what i'm here
to tell you hello i am Wanderer001 and this is my review of apple tv plus on the roku so everything
that i'm going to show you is caveated with that it is on a roku device so load times that you're
going to see screen transitions that's all going to be roku centric however the apple tv plus app
itself is available on several different streaming devices just about anything these days however the
apple tv plus app does work best on the apple tv streaming box confused yet i know i was
let's start things off with loading the app so you can see how the dedicated load time is like
i said i'm not going to change any load times you're going to see exactly how long it takes
on the on the 2021 best model of the roku streaming set top box so there you saw that
when we first launched apple tv plus which i will probably just call apple tv to make it easier
we land on the watch now page what that is is anything that you're going to want to
watch right now if you see down here if i select down on the roku remote on the directional d-pad
it this is our up next section so here you can see i have tom hanks greyhound i have wolf walkers i
have ted lasso and i have another tom hanks movie all are apple tv plus original shows and that's
what you're going to notice once we start going through this a little more is that apple tv plus
really doesn't have a back catalog to work off of it's all really new apple tv shows when this
first launched the big complaint a lot of people had was that there was not enough content on here
at that time i'm happy to say that there is a lot more content on here however it's still limited
so your up next will dynamically change as you choose something to watch it will shift to the
beginning so you'll always be able to go right back to whatever you were watching as you can see
there's a status bar that lets me know i have 58 minutes of this left to watch i have the full 144
minutes and ted lasso which if anybody's told you about apple tv plus this is probably the tv show
that they told you you need to watch this is one of the shows that i wanted to check out on apple
tv plus and i will admit the hype is kind of worth it coming down on our watch now page here is what
to watch so it's just going to kind of give you an idea of things to watch now this is where i start
to have some issues with apple tv plus here you'll notice 1883 the eternals and servant in the lower
right hand corner of the servant window you'll see apple tv plus logo however eternals doesn't
have that neither does 1883. if we select one of these options you'll notice it's really nice in
the way that it transitions to and from specific things you'll see that as we're going along
but here you can see that this is actually through paramount plus which you can try for free and then
after that is 10 a month i do kind of like how apple brings a lot of information about this so
you could try paramount plus right from here meaning that paramount plus subscription will
be part of your apple account and build all in one so that's kind of nice that it does that
but here you see it says the season it lets you know it's a drama when it came out the run time
as well as a age rating which is kind of nice so 15 plus and if you come down you can see it's
got season one with information it ships it lets you know what you're watching down here you have
trailers which is nice bonus content and related so if you find something that's related to what
you're looking at it will show you likewise if we come over to cast and crew if we select one
of the crew well here you go anything that he was in that apple tv plus has access to
it will show you that here and we're going to come back and back one more time and we'll do the same
thing with the eternals just so you get an idea so this is a movie as opposed to a tv series this one
you can buy outright for 20 and again all of the information you can add it to your up next which
will shove it up to the top where you saw before however it's not actually a a list it's always
a continue watching area rather than a dedicated watch list that you can go back to so they don't
really separate that which i don't really like and then here you can buy it from apple
tv coming over to our apple tv original here give you an idea and you've seen the shifting back and
forth which is really nice you can play next episode add to up next which is the only thing
that you can do season trailers bonus content related and then cast and crew just like you saw
when i was on eternals you saw that you can buy with apple that's one of the things about apple tv
plus is if you don't live in the apple ecosystem it may be a rude awakening that you're going to
need an apple account of some sort in order to actually utilize this service so if you do if you
don't like having to do that this might not be the service for you but we continue on now on apple tv
plus well here you go it's going to show you these are things that are on apple tv plus now you're
gonna notice that there's a lot of things that kind of pop up in several locations and that's
partially due to the lack of a large catalog to work off of apple tv plus originals which is what
apple tv plus is for are trickling out but they just don't have the large catalog that a lot of
these other services have coming down here we go servant new season premieres january 21st
which is a few days away from when i'm actually filming this so it's letting you know hey you
can totally get caught up on this and one of the things i don't like about the the highlighting is
it only kind of raises the image up a little bit so up here you have this in the background might
be a little difficult to see likewise here only makes it slightly bigger and then you get some
text underneath it makes it a little difficult to know what you're actually highlighting unless
you're kind of used to that apple ecosystem so i kind of wish they had a better highlighting
mechanism for that down here we have channels so these are all the channels that you can get
included with your apple tv not apple tv plus subscription so these will all be able to be
billed right to your apple account this is also one way that i like to find all of our
apple tv plus content so hypothetically if i pop over to paramount i'm going to select that
and here you go try paramount free it's going to show you hey this is what you can get
with paramount and then it feeds all this into apple tv coming over to apple tv plus this will
allow us to see all of our apple tv content there are several ways that you can get to
this page so we're not going to go through this right now we're going to select back and come down
and here we have new shows and movies again this is going to be everything not just apple tv plus
which is the annoying part because some of these you have to pay for with another subscription or
pay outright for single episodes same thing with our popular shows
and then ted lasso because i watch ted lasso shows up here watch all of our episodes
apple tv music and then here's another thing for macbeth on apple tv what we're watching
what we think and and another thing i don't particularly care for is the the constant film
strip instead of bringing me into a grid for all of the shows that i could be looking at if you
like ted lasso you would like these things and i will admit right here mythic quest was one of
the things that i wanted to check out on apple tv plus but like a lot of these other things
a little hard to tell but they're not actually apple tv plus series free series premieres
coming soon to apple tv plus new movies again not all on apple tv plus these are
through some subsidiaries limited time offers browse collections browse genres
try something free learn about how to apple tv plus discover apple tv plus try channels i mean it
gives you a lot of information and then recently watched it comes down here bunch of ted lassos
does not show me actual movies that i've been watching which is interesting so that's just for
tv shows but now we are all the way at the bottom of that first screen and what i do like about the
roku version if you select back on your roku remote one shot brings you all the way back up
to the top which is great coming over to the right we have apple tv plus like i said there's a lot of
ways to get to this page so i wasn't going to go through it then here you have a nice banner this
is what we think you could be watching nice big ad and then latest originals scroll scroll scroll
watch entire series so this is things that you don't have to worry about
things coming out because apple tv plus will either drop an entire season in one go or
they might feed it out uh one of which was like fraggle rock which i came across before
episodes of fraggle rock are gonna come out weekly so can't watch it all in one go best of 21 these
are going to be all apple tv plus originals coming down apple original films so yes there are movies
and tv shows a lot of this is highly acclaimed stuff and that's kind of the feeling i get from
apple tv plus is it's i'm gonna say more bougie but it's definitely a specific user base
and actor director that ends up here you have a lot of town hanks and a lot of steven spielberg
on apple tv plus i'm not saying that's a bad thing just know before you get into this if this
is something that you'd actually be interested in the films and shows that i've watched so far
have been great like they definitely are big budget things so it's not like apple would
cut corners let's be honest so we'll keep scrolling down all featured films and again
even though there's a lot of featured films that i could be going through this is all film
strip style not a fan of that but you know if i come over to hypothetically here we go
brings up a nice picture and i'll admit that transition there is nice i just wish it was in
a different style so all drama series all comedy series it's it's breaking it down to try and make
it easier for you to find content even though you're going to see a lot of content that is
repetitive and we've reached the bottom so i'm going to select back all the way back up to the
top to the right you have the store and that's the thing apple tv plus is an add-on to the apple tv
experience or the apple store experience so here you can buy a lot of different shows or movies
and have them added to your apple account so this is movies coming across available to rent new
noteworthy you get the idea coming over library if you've got purchased content from apple
it will show up here i do not i am not an apple user normally so not my bag coming across we have
search over on the right if we scroll over we have recent search so you can see i did morgan friedman
fraggle rock another fraggle rock you also have browse by category so again this is another place
select apple tv plus free for everyone family and kids it's going to break it down into to
make searching easier so if i come over to comedy it's gonna bring up a bunch of comedies keep in
mind again you'll notice that ghostbusters free guy clifford those aren't apple tv plus shows
right here ted lasso mythicquest those are on the rocks also again because it has that apple
tv logo in the lower right but coming back if we wanted to do a search we just come over to our
search box and i'll search for exactly what i was searching for originally which was fraggle rock
and here we go so we can come over it's got auto completes up here so you don't have to type it
all out and then you have fraggle rock back to the rock which is an apple tv plus original and
then the original fraggle rock from back in the 80s so selecting this here we go big old picture
information episode guides related and cast and crew at the bottom likewise we'll come over boom
big picture information add to up next because it hasn't aired yet that's a big thing so add to
up next coming on friday as you can see there and we're gonna select back because that's really the
search mechanism it's not terrible i like it over some other streaming services but i wish it kind
of did a little better again notice this is still here you actually have to come down to clear in
order for that to actually clear everything out i like that they have the search apple tv plus but
it just brings us back to this page here instead of again what i would prefer a gridlike format
we're going to come all the way back up to the top and move over to the right which is our settings
this is one thing that i actually will give to the apple tv plus app is the amount of control and
changes that you can make within the application itself not just with your apple account so here we
go at the top is your account information which i'm hiding because i don't want to show that
but coming down we have about we can select that and it will give you information about the app
that's on your roku you can select language you can select restrictions so if you want to have
parental controls yes you can turn on restrictions you can add a passcode purchase and rentals you
know disallowed without a passcode movies you can set pg whatever same thing with tv shows so it's
a nice parental control right there accessibility as you might imagine it has accessibility access
so subtitles in closed captioning how would you like this to look there's lots of choices
audio description bold text increased contract motion there are lots of options if you need
accessibility options limit purchases and rentals to sd so if you don't want to see hd 4k two you
know you can turn that on save a little money limit pay playback to sd again need to save on
your bandwidth hey limit to sd you don't have to worry about that reset your apple tv which
as you might imagine does exactly what it sounds like restores the app to its original state in
case you were mucking around with things help it does have actual help information right there
this this is the one that i like the most which is our privacy area and i know in later days apple is
trying to come across as a more privacy conscious company so here you go clear your search history
for your apple tv plus use play history turn that on or off when making recommendations you
can clear your play history you can show sports scores not really interested in that but they'll
pop up if you're following a team location services to make things better i have that off
share apple tv analytics also off to help with performance don't like that
analytical data will show performance data if there's anything there about apple tv pretty much
about information see how your data is managed and then legal admittedly there are a lot more options
in the settings area than you would get for a lot of other apps some other things to consider how
many simultaneous streams can you have you can have up to six simultaneous streams including
yours so that's actually five other ones however each person will need to have their own
apple account and it's normally supposed to be for apple family members but it doesn't seem at
this time that apple is kind of poo-pooing that so you'll be able to share with five other people
another thing that you might be thinking of is apple tv content free well if it's an apple tv
plus series or something that you bought yes it will be ad-free there may be a little bumper roll
in front of one of these episodes but it will be for another apple tv plus show and it does have
a skip button which is kind of nice one of the biggest dings that i have against apple tv plus
is the commingling of content and making it a little trickier to figure out what's free and
what's not meaning do i have to have a subsequent subscription to another service or am i buying
this outright if they did a little better letting you know what was what i think i would like it a
little more and that's not saying it's bad it's just a little confusing at times especially if
you're not from the apple ecosystem last thing that you need to consider is pricing and we're
gonna round up apple tv plus is five dollars a month so that's not as bad as some other streaming
services if you have other apple products or or other services that give you apple tv plus free
chances are you might have this and not realize it because i remember when it first came out at the
drop of a hat you could get a year's subscription for free and not notice it generally you'll be
able to find a one to three month free trial for me personally based on the content that they have
and what's available right now this would not be something i constantly keep activated as one of my
primary streaming services however as i said ted lasso is worth the hype that's been going on and
i know that there's a season three coming out at time of filming so i would be willing to add this
to my streaming rotation when a show or movie came out that i would like to see definitely
because again if you look at other services five dollars a month to watch a movie not terrible
likewise to binge watch a tv series that is only available on apple tv plus just remember as a cord
cutter you don't need to have all the things on all the time you can pick and choose and apple tv
plus might be one that you might enjoy especially if you're already in the apple ecosystem it pulls
all of that information into one singular place it reminds me very much of the tivo hub from
the tivo mini that i tested review in the corner there where it's aggregating all of your data and
recommendations into one location that's separate than the individual streaming apps which you can
have here and which i've done a review of a lot of these again over in the corner giving you a single
place for that so if you like that style already i would recommend checking out apple tv plus if
you're on the fence i would definitely suggest waiting for a free trial of some sort with that
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