Current Missing Features & Bugs with the AppleTV App Experience Preview

General impressions on a first gen 4k apple tv:

Individual movie/series pages are better. Getting there seems much clunkier.

New features:

Occasionally gets the wrong language version clearart/clearlogo (different language) but overall seems to work really well with my multilingual library. Nothing that having access to manually altering it serverside won’t fix, is already working within the parameters of what I would expect to have to fix manually.

Love the feature.

Regressions:

Dolby vision not working (any profile)

Dvd source (480i60/576i50 containers in mkv) playback greatly inferior. No deinterlacing on pal content, extreme macroblocking not present on old app with at least some ntsc.

Anything with TrueHD audio (tried 1080p mpeg2 and 2160p hevc) doesn’t start playback. DTS-HD MA and FLAC 5.1 work fine.

Major issues/limitations carried over from old app:

Dolby Digital Plus Atmos doesn’t get passed through, is converted to pcm 5.1

No access to local season extras (probably the most common form for series extras!)

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