EE TV Box Pro VS Apple 4K Box

[DStructUK]

HI

I am soon going to take up EE Broadband with EE TV

I am aware I can choose either the EE TV Box Pro OR the Apple 4K Box. I have watched some YouTube videos on them both to try and give me the best understanding, I am still undecided on which to choose though. Can anybody please help me distuingish the differences? 

I know the main difference is that you can record on the EE TV Box Pro but you cannot record on the Apple 4K Box, If I decide recording is not so important to me, what other factors are there? 

Which box is the most powerful hardware that will give me best performance switching through apps etc, best viewing / sound quality and least problems etc etc 

Please go all out on the differences, pros and cons of both 

Thank you 

[davidro77]

I’m surprised the lack of 4k BBC iPlayer on Apple TV 4K isn’t being called out as a big deal?

iPlayer 720p on a big screen looks rubbish quite frankly and it’s a disgrace the BBC haven’t released a new version for Apple TV to fix this.

Are all other free to air channels including the sky channels 4k on EE TV or just full HD?

Is this a plus over sky stream or do they cap it?

[Leanne_T]

Hi @davidro77 

Thanks for coming to the community 🙂

The EE TV Channel Guide has information on the channels. 

Leanne.

[davidro77]

So the channel guide link appears to show all the channels are only HD and not 4K. Which is a little strange considering both tv boxes tout their 4k credentials?

[Midnight_Voice]

@davidro77 

4K boxes, whether supplied by EETV  or anybody else, all without exception suffer from the crippling limitation that they can only show genuine 4K when fed 4K content.

Though most of them overcome this to a certain extent by upscaling whatever they are fed to 4K, with mixed results.

I share your puzzlement as the why the BBC iPlayer on Apple TV  doesn’t show its UHD programmes, but I am also puzzled why you think this is anything to do with EETV; unlike on the Box Pro where the iPlayer app has been filtered through YouView, the app on the Apple TV box is exclusively the BBC’s doing, and if you have a complaint, raise it with them; the more customers complain, the better.

As you have no doubt learned since, the BBC supply nothing in 720p; it’s either 576i SD, where upscaling requires 15 out of every 16 pixels to be synthesised, or 1080p HD, which only requires 3 out of every 4 to be synthesised.

For 720p, which requires 5 out of every 6 to be synthesised, try Now without Boost.