Part of the Dolby Vision spec is that it forces your TV into it’s most color accurate settings so why wouldn’t I want that as well?

Oh my LG C1 OLED, most Dolby Vision content looked fine. But for AppleTV+ content in particular, something was up with either the appleTV or the TV itself that caused the brightness to constantly shift form shot to shot with Dolby Vision content only. Ted Lasso was the worst offender since it’s a generally very bright show. Within a single scene, the brightness would often shift between the correct level and too-dim from shot to shot. It because so annoying I just disabled Dolby Vision content across the board.

Even Apple is bringing its TV app to more and more other devices / platforms. Weakening their own position by making their own streaming device kind of redundant.

Please correct me if I’m wrong about this, but doesn’t the AppleTV+ available app on 3rd party devices only let users stream content from the AppleTV+ subscription service? Or does it work like the Prime Video app in that it also lets you view content from additional services provided that the user has subscribed to those additional services specifically via the appleTV app itself?

Because I’ve been under the impression that the AppleTV+ app that’s currently available on Roku boxes, smart TVs, game consoles, etc. only allows users to watch AppleTV+ content. And if that’s right, then making the AppleTV+ app available on Roku boxes does not weaken Apple’s position in the streaming device market (just like how being able to watch Prime Video content on an AppleTV box in addition to an Amazon Fire Stick does not weaken Amazon’s position in the streaming device market).

Although regardless of me being right or wrong about the above, one thing that certainly is weakening Apple’s position in the streaming device market is their bone-headed decision to give their box (AppleTV) and streaming service (AppleTV+) nearly identical names. It has created so much confusion in the marketplace. It’s even created confusion in this subreddit which on paper is supposed to be devoted to the box itself, but often seems tons of submissions about AppleTV+ content which can be viewed on numerous streaming devices.

If a developer is going to use their own player, they should be required to do two things.

1. Provide a reason which must be approved by Apple during certification. What do they want/need their player to do that the default player cannot do. There are plenty of good justifications for implementing a custom player, and the developer better have at least one otherwise what’s the point? For example, the YouTube player allows users to thumb-up/down a video which is a thing they should expect to be able to do while watching YouTube via AppleTV.

2. Alternative players MUST be required to have feature parity with the default player. It’s fine if they want to add more features, but they sure as hell should not be allowed to submit an app with a player that can’t do everything the default player can. I want to pull my hair out every time I use apps that don’t have the 10-sec skip feature, or ones that don’t let you “circle the ring” to scrub, or even worse ones that don’t allow you to effectively scrub at all.