--- product_id: 312783685 title: "2021 Apple TV 4K with 64GB Storage (2nd Generation)" brand: "apple" price: "€ 28.96" currency: EUR in_stock: false reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/312783685-2021-apple-tv-4k-with-64gb-storage-2nd-generation store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # 4K High Frame Rate HDR with Dolby Vision A12 Bionic chip for smooth gaming & apps Dolby Atmos immersive sound 2021 Apple TV 4K with 64GB Storage (2nd Generation) **Brand:** apple **Price:** € 28.96 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > 📺 Elevate your streaming game — don’t just watch, experience! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** 2021 Apple TV 4K with 64GB Storage (2nd Generation) by apple - **How much does it cost?** € 28.96 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/312783685-2021-apple-tv-4k-with-64gb-storage-2nd-generation) ## Best For - apple enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted apple brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Cinematic 4K HDR Brilliance:** Experience ultra-fluid, crisp visuals with Dolby Vision that transform your living room into a private theater. - • **Immersive Dolby Atmos Audio:** Feel every sound come alive with room-filling, 3D audio that puts you at the center of the action. - • **Next-Gen Siri Remote Control:** Navigate with precision using the touch-enabled clickpad, plus private listening with dual AirPods support keeps your viewing personal. - • **Powerhouse A12 Bionic Performance:** Seamlessly stream, game, and multitask with Apple's cutting-edge chip designed for speed and stunning graphics. - • **Seamless Apple Ecosystem Integration:** Effortlessly connect with your iPhone, AirPods, HomeKit devices, and Apple services for a truly smart home experience. ## Overview The 2021 Apple TV 4K (2nd Gen) with 64GB storage delivers stunning 4K HDR visuals powered by the A12 Bionic chip, immersive Dolby Atmos sound, and seamless integration with Apple’s ecosystem. Featuring a redesigned Siri Remote and private listening capabilities, it’s the ultimate smart media player for professionals who demand premium entertainment and smart home control in one sleek device. ## Description The new Apple TV 4K brings the best shows, movies, sports, and live TV—together with your favorite Apple devices and services. Now with 4K High Frame Rate HDR for fluid, crisp video. Watch Apple Originals with Apple TV+. Experience more ways to enjoy your TV with Apple Arcade, Apple Fitness+, and Apple Music. And use the new Siri Remote with touch-enabled clickpad to control it all. Review: Compared to Fire Stick - Free 3 Month Apple+ at Best Buy - 16 month Update - I just got the latest Fire stick and it's harder than ever to navigate. I had to watch videos to try to get this new one to work like the last one and I still haven't gotten the screensaver to work right nor have I gotten it to work as well with my LG remote. So I'm upping the Apple review to 5 stars. 12 Month Update - Ended up subscribing to an Apple Family Plan so have access to their shows all the time. This device is still working well on the guest room TV and is easy for the grandkids (and old people) to use. No complaints. 4 Month Update: Updating the software took about 15 minutes on a wireless network with 400 Mbps download. I was going to test the download speed but discovered that there is no web browser for Apple TV. There is an app you can get that will allow you to access other apps but I wasn't in the mood to bother. The Apple TV box, however, has an Ethernet port so I could connect it directly to the router for faster speeds. Works as advertised. Easy to setup. I laid my iPhone next to it and it got what it needed in less than a minute. It worked out of the box with my LG control but doesn't work with the generic control the spouse uses. The quality of the image and sound (on a new high end LG TV) is the same on Firestick and Apple. I did watch a video that showed me how to improve the vidio and audio on the Apple interface but I couldn't see any difference after making suggested changes. I'm a long time desertcart Fire Stick user (upgrade each time a new stick comes out) but that darned stick fails almost daily and I have to go to the TV to manually restart it. I still have it running but stuck the Apple TV on another HDMI plug. After spending some time setting the Apple TV up to suit me, I still use the Fire Stick interface as my first choice but switch to Apple when the Fire Stick fails. Setting up the Apple interface also led me to make some useful changes on the Fire Stick interface. Probably because I'm familiar with Fire's busy screen and have it organized to suit me, I find the Apple screen too simplistic. If I was choosing one to buy for someone less tech savvy, I'd get the Apple. If I have guests, I'll set the Apple up on their TV. If the Apple TV wasn't so expensive, I'd buy one now for my brother. I do not like the remote. It has a hair trigger that causes it to move the cursor if you look at it sideways. But my LG remote works fine so I put the Apple remote away. I was very surprised the Apple TV didn't come with more than a 7 day free trial of Apple+. However, I got a 3 month free trial for no cost from Best Buy. Apple+ gets you free access to their proprietary programs, nothing more. Because I have most of the movies I want to view in file format, I'm unlikely to benefit from having access to Apple+. I got a one year free subscription when I bought my Macbook and never used it. Bottom line - Better choice for new streamers, nothing better for experienced Fire Stick users. Addendum: I like Apple+ better than I thought I would. I will still let it expire after the three free months but we have binge watched a half dozen series. Addendum: The new Apple TV 4K is out and has a good introductory price and great reviews. Try that one instead of this one. Review: A Minor Update to an Excellent Streamer - Photos are a comparison of the last 4 generations of AppleTV: 3rd generation, HD, 4K, and this newest box; and the old Siri remote vs the new remote. If you liked the previous generation of the AppleTV, the original 4K, then you will like this new iteration. Because, it is near as makes no difference, exactly the same. Oh, there are spec sheet differences like higher frame 4K video for uncommon content and extremely modern TVs. And the processor has been bumped a couple generations, but I can’t tell the difference; it was plenty fast before and it’s plenty fast now. The remote is better. I had given the previous AppleTV 4 stars because the remote was a fragile, quirky, easily lost, tiny, button poor collection of Apple’s worst design impulses. I bought brightly colored cases for my remotes so I wouldn’t lose them, or forget which end was which. The new remote is more substantial, easier to perform such basic actions as skipping forward in videos. Has a mute button! Now I don’t have to volume down to zero to mute. With a power button so I don’t have to do the square button long press, slide and click to sleep. I can grab it and figure out which end is which without fumbling. Perhaps most importantly, my wife, who never figured out the old remote, uses this one without issue. From such small gifts come an additional star. Readjusting to the new remote continues. I still have muscle memory for the old remote and tend to press the play button when I mean to talk with Siri, and the mute button when I mean to pause. I’d say the old remote is better at swiping left or right, but the new remote is massively better at single directional clicks; it’s practical now to skip forward in single hops instead of swiping around and hoping I land about where I want to scrub in a timeline. The new remote also has a hard to discover feature where resting your thumb on the side of the “track wheel” while pausing video will enable a kind of iPod scrolling through videos. Very precise and makes skipping over commercials in Tablo much easier. Apps that don’t use the standard playback controls don’t necessarily get this feature. Owners of previous generations can just buy the new remote separately and save themselves the cost of a new box when there are no other compelling features. For example, the new color calibration feature using the iPhone 12 will work with older boxes too. I bought a new remote from Apple for the original AppleTV 4K in my bedroom and it paired in seconds and has been a pleasure to use. The larger size is a surprisingly important feature as it’s easier to find even when amongst the folds of an unmade bed, and fits my hand better. If it’s comparable to the old remote, it will need charging every 4-6 months with ample onscreen warning. I would not worry about the non-replaceable batteries. I doubt the typical remote will be charged as many as 20 cycles in its lifetime. By the way, do not charge it unless the AppleTV warns you as you don’t want to wear out the battery with too many cycles. This is not a device you want to daily charge. For those who are buying an AppleTV for the first time, I recommend it if the following is true: you use an iPhone, you have adequate network speed for 4K content, somewhere around 50-100 Mbit should be adequate, you buy iTunes content like movies and TV series. If you want HomeKit automation. If none of these are true, then some other streaming box is likely a better fit. Apple designs the best low wattage computer chips in the world today, and it is no surprise that the 2+ year old A12 in this box leads to a snappy interface. Apps launch fast, list of thumbnails scroll smoothly and briskly. I’ve never complained of a lack of speed with an AppleTV 4K of either generation. My most commonly used app is YouTube and it is fine, if not as full featured as the iPhone version. The occasional 4K video looks excellent on this platform. If you’d look at my network traffic reports, you see I go through videos by the terabyte. The only hiccup had been the occasional loss of pause button functionality, which they finally fixed. And I wish it were easier to turn on close captioning and leave them on. The large number of movies in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos in the iTunes library give my TV, a Sony A80J, a chance to show what it is capable of. Details in the dark and eye searing highlights come through and give me my money’s worth. And my library frequently sees movies I’ve already paid for refreshed in Dolby Vision. Recently, the Indiana Jones movies suddenly showed up in these formats, nice. On the other hand sometimes, a movie will require a second purchase to get Dolby Vision, and that’s aggravating and something I've yet to do. I should mention the existance of an Apple TV app on many modern televisions, including my Sony A80J and my LG CX. It is adequate at finding and excellent at displaying iTunes content—I can't tell any difference in quality between using a real AppleTV or the integrated app on my LG CX—but I'm not going to log into Google TV to see how it works on the Sony. I'd prefer privacy, something I'm not going to get from smart TVs from ad-revenue driven corporations. Dolby Atmos, is a nice to have feature, and many movies will feature it and its near mandatory rainy or helicopter scenes. The first chance I had to get into my new TV room’s attic, I put in overhead speakers for Atmos. And I just did the same in the basement media room. Well worth crawling around pulling some speaker wire. As a bonus, Apple has recently started remixing selected music tracks in an Atmos compatible format: Spatial Audio, which places the listener in a much more immersive location in the sound field. So, for times when you really want to listen to foreground music it’s a great feature. I’m not a fan of the TV+ app as it is too focused on selling content and services. There are many 3rd party apps, and I watch a lot of Hulu and VRV. The Channels app is a good to have if you have an antenna and an HDHomeRun. The Tablo app is a must to have if a bit slow if you own a Tablo network DVR. Cord cutters can pretty much fill there content needs and get away from cable television. The Netflix app, when I used it, was one of the better implementations I’d seen. I’d say very few people will notice a difference between the 32 and 64 GB versions. Maybe, with slow networks with a lot of rewatched content or large games. Save a bit of money. I’ve not been gaming on this box or its predecessor, not my thing and the games I tried did not compel. Still it has plenty of horsepower for most games. You will need a Bluetooth controller though as Apple has removed the gyroscope functionality from the remote. Not that the original Siri remote was a good controller anyway. Happy this still has a Gigabit Ethernet port as wired networking is reliable networking. As my home uses HomeKit, this acts as my hub, a centralized computer tying together the switches, thermostats, garage openers, and other smart devices in the house. A reliable system, although if you don’t need a streaming box, a HomePod Mini is cheaper and will also act as a hub, albeit sans Ethernet. Harmony remotes are no longer being made as modern streaming boxes control receivers and TVs so well. The AppleTV coexists with my Sony TV and Yamaha receiver to the point I go months without touching their remotes. All I really need is to turn the system on and off, mute, and adjust the volume and this does so well and reliably. As a developer, I’d say Apple has gone well out of its way to make porting iOS apps to tvOS almost easy. The introduction of Combine and SwiftUI should make it possible for developers to repurpose their apps to the Mac and the AppleTV with little initial effort. Certainly, I’d recommend any iOS developer own an AppleTV and think of which features might be useful on the big screen. As someone who uses an AppleTV every day, I appreciate the high level of technology, reliability, integration with other tech, speed, frequent software updates, new features delivered for free, and Apple’s privacy focus. As I just recently added a TV to my new home, I was happy to pick up this new model to replace an AppleTV HD, but I probably would not have replaced a first generation 4K with this model. However, I purchased just the remote for the original 4K model in my bedroom and have been happy with the decision. ## Features - Dolby Atmos for immersive, room-filling sound - A12 Bionic chip gives a big boost to audio, video, and graphics, for even better game and app experiences - 4K High Frame Rate HDR with Dolby Vision for fluid, crisp video - Apple Original shows and movies from Apple TV+ - The latest hits from Disney+, desertcart Prime Video, HBO Max, and more - More ways to enjoy your TV with Apple Arcade, Apple Fitness+, and Apple Music - The new Siri Remote with touch-enabled clickpad - Private listening with up to two sets of AirPods - Use AirPlay to share photos, videos, and more from your iPhone, iPad, and Mac on your TV - Get a live view of your HomeKit-enabled cameras and control your smart home accessories ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Brand | Apple | | Color | Black | | Connectivity Technology | Bluetooth, Wi-Fi | | Connector Type | HDMI Type A | | Controller Type | Remote Control | | Form Factor | TV Box | | Item Weight | 1.7 pounds | | Model Name | Apple TV | | Resolution | 4k | | Supported Internet Services | Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, Netflix | ## Product Details - **Brand:** Apple - **Color:** Black - **Connectivity Technology:** Bluetooth, Wi-Fi - **Connector Type:** HDMI Type A - **Controller Type:** Remote Control - **Form Factor:** TV Box - **Item Weight:** 1.7 Pounds - **Model Name:** Apple TV - **Resolution:** 4k - **Supported Internet Services:** Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, Netflix ## Images ![2021 Apple TV 4K with 64GB Storage (2nd Generation) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/815g8Uo656S.jpg) ![2021 Apple TV 4K with 64GB Storage (2nd Generation) - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51SVMj3Px2S.jpg) ![2021 Apple TV 4K with 64GB Storage (2nd Generation) - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61I+CaK+2RS.jpg) ![2021 Apple TV 4K with 64GB Storage (2nd Generation) - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71JT8fi1oGS.jpg) ![2021 Apple TV 4K with 64GB Storage (2nd Generation) - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/617Cuv65c5S.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Size, Style** options. ## Questions & Answers **Q: Do you need a 4k tv to use this?** A: Apple TV 4K will work with any TV with an HDMI input, but requires a 4K HDR compatible TV to display content in 4K or HDR. **Q: If you buy this item from amazon do you still get 1 year Apple TV+ subscription free?** A: NOTE: Apple is reducing the 1-year free Apple TV+ to 3-months as of July 1, 2021!!!! **Q: What is the purpose of the lightning cable? I’m hoping it can replace the power cable.** A: The lightning cable is for charging the remote. **Q: Does anyone have the Plex app and how does it run on the new Appletv and which model do you have?** A: Plex works really well on AppleTV 4K and HD. Been using Plex for the past five years with AppleTV ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Compared to Fire Stick - Free 3 Month Apple+ at Best Buy *by C***R on August 30, 2022* 16 month Update - I just got the latest Fire stick and it's harder than ever to navigate. I had to watch videos to try to get this new one to work like the last one and I still haven't gotten the screensaver to work right nor have I gotten it to work as well with my LG remote. So I'm upping the Apple review to 5 stars. 12 Month Update - Ended up subscribing to an Apple Family Plan so have access to their shows all the time. This device is still working well on the guest room TV and is easy for the grandkids (and old people) to use. No complaints. 4 Month Update: Updating the software took about 15 minutes on a wireless network with 400 Mbps download. I was going to test the download speed but discovered that there is no web browser for Apple TV. There is an app you can get that will allow you to access other apps but I wasn't in the mood to bother. The Apple TV box, however, has an Ethernet port so I could connect it directly to the router for faster speeds. Works as advertised. Easy to setup. I laid my iPhone next to it and it got what it needed in less than a minute. It worked out of the box with my LG control but doesn't work with the generic control the spouse uses. The quality of the image and sound (on a new high end LG TV) is the same on Firestick and Apple. I did watch a video that showed me how to improve the vidio and audio on the Apple interface but I couldn't see any difference after making suggested changes. I'm a long time Amazon Fire Stick user (upgrade each time a new stick comes out) but that darned stick fails almost daily and I have to go to the TV to manually restart it. I still have it running but stuck the Apple TV on another HDMI plug. After spending some time setting the Apple TV up to suit me, I still use the Fire Stick interface as my first choice but switch to Apple when the Fire Stick fails. Setting up the Apple interface also led me to make some useful changes on the Fire Stick interface. Probably because I'm familiar with Fire's busy screen and have it organized to suit me, I find the Apple screen too simplistic. If I was choosing one to buy for someone less tech savvy, I'd get the Apple. If I have guests, I'll set the Apple up on their TV. If the Apple TV wasn't so expensive, I'd buy one now for my brother. I do not like the remote. It has a hair trigger that causes it to move the cursor if you look at it sideways. But my LG remote works fine so I put the Apple remote away. I was very surprised the Apple TV didn't come with more than a 7 day free trial of Apple+. However, I got a 3 month free trial for no cost from Best Buy. Apple+ gets you free access to their proprietary programs, nothing more. Because I have most of the movies I want to view in file format, I'm unlikely to benefit from having access to Apple+. I got a one year free subscription when I bought my Macbook and never used it. Bottom line - Better choice for new streamers, nothing better for experienced Fire Stick users. Addendum: I like Apple+ better than I thought I would. I will still let it expire after the three free months but we have binge watched a half dozen series. Addendum: The new Apple TV 4K is out and has a good introductory price and great reviews. Try that one instead of this one. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Minor Update to an Excellent Streamer *by G***S on May 22, 2021* Photos are a comparison of the last 4 generations of AppleTV: 3rd generation, HD, 4K, and this newest box; and the old Siri remote vs the new remote. If you liked the previous generation of the AppleTV, the original 4K, then you will like this new iteration. Because, it is near as makes no difference, exactly the same. Oh, there are spec sheet differences like higher frame 4K video for uncommon content and extremely modern TVs. And the processor has been bumped a couple generations, but I can’t tell the difference; it was plenty fast before and it’s plenty fast now. The remote is better. I had given the previous AppleTV 4 stars because the remote was a fragile, quirky, easily lost, tiny, button poor collection of Apple’s worst design impulses. I bought brightly colored cases for my remotes so I wouldn’t lose them, or forget which end was which. The new remote is more substantial, easier to perform such basic actions as skipping forward in videos. Has a mute button! Now I don’t have to volume down to zero to mute. With a power button so I don’t have to do the square button long press, slide and click to sleep. I can grab it and figure out which end is which without fumbling. Perhaps most importantly, my wife, who never figured out the old remote, uses this one without issue. From such small gifts come an additional star. Readjusting to the new remote continues. I still have muscle memory for the old remote and tend to press the play button when I mean to talk with Siri, and the mute button when I mean to pause. I’d say the old remote is better at swiping left or right, but the new remote is massively better at single directional clicks; it’s practical now to skip forward in single hops instead of swiping around and hoping I land about where I want to scrub in a timeline. The new remote also has a hard to discover feature where resting your thumb on the side of the “track wheel” while pausing video will enable a kind of iPod scrolling through videos. Very precise and makes skipping over commercials in Tablo much easier. Apps that don’t use the standard playback controls don’t necessarily get this feature. Owners of previous generations can just buy the new remote separately and save themselves the cost of a new box when there are no other compelling features. For example, the new color calibration feature using the iPhone 12 will work with older boxes too. I bought a new remote from Apple for the original AppleTV 4K in my bedroom and it paired in seconds and has been a pleasure to use. The larger size is a surprisingly important feature as it’s easier to find even when amongst the folds of an unmade bed, and fits my hand better. If it’s comparable to the old remote, it will need charging every 4-6 months with ample onscreen warning. I would not worry about the non-replaceable batteries. I doubt the typical remote will be charged as many as 20 cycles in its lifetime. By the way, do not charge it unless the AppleTV warns you as you don’t want to wear out the battery with too many cycles. This is not a device you want to daily charge. For those who are buying an AppleTV for the first time, I recommend it if the following is true: you use an iPhone, you have adequate network speed for 4K content, somewhere around 50-100 Mbit should be adequate, you buy iTunes content like movies and TV series. If you want HomeKit automation. If none of these are true, then some other streaming box is likely a better fit. Apple designs the best low wattage computer chips in the world today, and it is no surprise that the 2+ year old A12 in this box leads to a snappy interface. Apps launch fast, list of thumbnails scroll smoothly and briskly. I’ve never complained of a lack of speed with an AppleTV 4K of either generation. My most commonly used app is YouTube and it is fine, if not as full featured as the iPhone version. The occasional 4K video looks excellent on this platform. If you’d look at my network traffic reports, you see I go through videos by the terabyte. The only hiccup had been the occasional loss of pause button functionality, which they finally fixed. And I wish it were easier to turn on close captioning and leave them on. The large number of movies in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos in the iTunes library give my TV, a Sony A80J, a chance to show what it is capable of. Details in the dark and eye searing highlights come through and give me my money’s worth. And my library frequently sees movies I’ve already paid for refreshed in Dolby Vision. Recently, the Indiana Jones movies suddenly showed up in these formats, nice. On the other hand sometimes, a movie will require a second purchase to get Dolby Vision, and that’s aggravating and something I've yet to do. I should mention the existance of an Apple TV app on many modern televisions, including my Sony A80J and my LG CX. It is adequate at finding and excellent at displaying iTunes content—I can't tell any difference in quality between using a real AppleTV or the integrated app on my LG CX—but I'm not going to log into Google TV to see how it works on the Sony. I'd prefer privacy, something I'm not going to get from smart TVs from ad-revenue driven corporations. Dolby Atmos, is a nice to have feature, and many movies will feature it and its near mandatory rainy or helicopter scenes. The first chance I had to get into my new TV room’s attic, I put in overhead speakers for Atmos. And I just did the same in the basement media room. Well worth crawling around pulling some speaker wire. As a bonus, Apple has recently started remixing selected music tracks in an Atmos compatible format: Spatial Audio, which places the listener in a much more immersive location in the sound field. So, for times when you really want to listen to foreground music it’s a great feature. I’m not a fan of the TV+ app as it is too focused on selling content and services. There are many 3rd party apps, and I watch a lot of Hulu and VRV. The Channels app is a good to have if you have an antenna and an HDHomeRun. The Tablo app is a must to have if a bit slow if you own a Tablo network DVR. Cord cutters can pretty much fill there content needs and get away from cable television. The Netflix app, when I used it, was one of the better implementations I’d seen. I’d say very few people will notice a difference between the 32 and 64 GB versions. Maybe, with slow networks with a lot of rewatched content or large games. Save a bit of money. I’ve not been gaming on this box or its predecessor, not my thing and the games I tried did not compel. Still it has plenty of horsepower for most games. You will need a Bluetooth controller though as Apple has removed the gyroscope functionality from the remote. Not that the original Siri remote was a good controller anyway. Happy this still has a Gigabit Ethernet port as wired networking is reliable networking. As my home uses HomeKit, this acts as my hub, a centralized computer tying together the switches, thermostats, garage openers, and other smart devices in the house. A reliable system, although if you don’t need a streaming box, a HomePod Mini is cheaper and will also act as a hub, albeit sans Ethernet. Harmony remotes are no longer being made as modern streaming boxes control receivers and TVs so well. The AppleTV coexists with my Sony TV and Yamaha receiver to the point I go months without touching their remotes. All I really need is to turn the system on and off, mute, and adjust the volume and this does so well and reliably. As a developer, I’d say Apple has gone well out of its way to make porting iOS apps to tvOS almost easy. The introduction of Combine and SwiftUI should make it possible for developers to repurpose their apps to the Mac and the AppleTV with little initial effort. Certainly, I’d recommend any iOS developer own an AppleTV and think of which features might be useful on the big screen. As someone who uses an AppleTV every day, I appreciate the high level of technology, reliability, integration with other tech, speed, frequent software updates, new features delivered for free, and Apple’s privacy focus. As I just recently added a TV to my new home, I was happy to pick up this new model to replace an AppleTV HD, but I probably would not have replaced a first generation 4K with this model. However, I purchased just the remote for the original 4K model in my bedroom and have been happy with the decision. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Turn on the ARC Setting on your TV and Receiver *by A***Y on June 15, 2021* The setup for the Apple TV itself was easy and intuitive, however, I had to do some research and experimentation to get it to work correctly with my TV (2015 Panasonic Viera) and my Denon audio receiver. This is not the fault of Apple because they support the right technology in their device. The fault was actually with the TV and receiver menus, because they’re somewhat confusing if you don’t know very much about how ARC works. I finally got all three devices to work correctly together (TV, Apple TV, and Receiver) by turning on the ARC settings on all devices, using the correct HDMI port on the TV that supports ARC, and figuring out the correct settings on my TV that allowed it to give control over to an external media device (the Apple TV). I also had to make sure that within the TV's settings, the TV's speakers weren't set as the default, otherwise after restarting everything it would default audio output to the TV instead of the receiver. With regard to the Denon receiver, to turn on ARC, I actually had to go into the receiver's settings menu under the video settings, because that's where the HDMI settings are, even though ARC stands for Audio Return Channel. On the receiver, I turned on HDMI passthrough with a pass source of “Last,” this allows me to switch between the Apple TV and a gaming console depending on which source the receiver last detected a signal from. With the PS5, for example, all I have to do is press the PlayStation button on the PlayStation controller to switch over to it, or the home button on the Apple TV remote to switch back. When everything is setup, you may need to restart the Apple TV. Now that everything is working, I can hold down the power button on the Apple TV remote in order to turn off all three devices and then turn them back on, such that the Apple TV remote is now the only remote I need. Before this upgrade, I had to keep two other bulky remotes around just for their power buttons, but now I can hide those and don’t ever need to look at them again. This Apple TV was a massive upgrade from the old one I was using, which I hadn’t upgraded since 2015. As everyone is saying, the new remote is an awesome product and the software is so much better than before. I particularly liked how easy it was to sync my accounts and switch between them. The software syncs nicely with your iPhone and automatically syncs your iCloud account to it. Unlike the old Apple TV, where typing in passwords or TV shows was a pain, the new one will open up your iPhone keyboard, which makes it much easier. I’m also surprised at how accurate Siri has become. A few years ago, Siri wasn’t worth the hassle, but now it’s gotten so good at voice recognition that I actually trust it and use it all the time. I also love the “Up Next” feature in the Apple TV+ app that acts as a consolidated watch list for all my movie and TV show apps. Lastly, I appreciate Apple’s strong stance on privacy. I choose to allow them to collect my metadata for how I interact with the app, and in the Settings app, I noticed that, if I want to, I can actually examine the exact metadata packages that they send to their servers. As a programmer, I know how to read these text packages, and I scanned over them and found nothing nefarious. I was impressed that the ability to do that is actually available in the settings. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pt/products/312783685-2021-apple-tv-4k-with-64gb-storage-2nd-generation](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/312783685-2021-apple-tv-4k-with-64gb-storage-2nd-generation) --- *Product available on Desertcart Portugal* *Store origin: PT* *Last updated: 2026-10-07*