To answer the question, no it is not worth the price hike. It’s a four year old model by now and a newer one is probably in the pipeline. I recommend looking for one on sale or Apple refurbished instead.
Also don’t be surprised if the power button on your $60 Siri Remote pops out after a year or so. Easily fixable with scotch tape, but another reason to wait for the next revision or a sale price.
Also don’t be surprised if the power button on your $60 Siri Remote pops out after a year or so.
We always assumed it was my son’s asshole of a cat that managed to remove it.
There are a number of posts online about this problem if you do an internet search (as I found out when trying to repair mine). Not sure if it was a bad batch, or an inherent design flaw.
We figured it was the cat, as he was always playing with the remote, so we never looked into any further.
Apple TV is a premium product and people who are interested will keep buying those because there’s nothing better anyway. Shield TV was last updated in 2019, you don’t really need to update those things that often. AV1 HDR decode would be nice though.
I think it’s a good product for the most part. I just think that Apple should’ve kept the price where it was, and eaten some of the increased parts cost. They make enough money from related subscriptions and the hardware box already has a huge profit margin. It’s not worth what they’re charging at the ridiculously higher new retail price, even for an Apple product.
