It’s easy to forget that you’re watching a stream and not a disc. Colours are rich and vibrant but still natural, and there’s plenty of punch to proceedings. Every character is impeccably drawn and detailed and the picture pops from the screen.

Play Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet and there's fabulous crispness and clarity to the image. While it’s impossible to compare the original content of different streaming services - it's all different, after all - we can’t recall a better presentation from Netflix or Amazon. It’s particularly noticeable when watching in 4K HDR, in which all content is available (both HDR10 and Dolby Vision are supported). None of this is cheap.īut It's also clear that Apple has invested plenty of cash in the production and distribution of its content, because the picture and sound quality is superb. That Apple has spent a vast amount of money on its original shows and films is obvious from the names involved: Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell in The Morning Show an Oprah Winfrey talk show a Steven Spielberg anthology series. However, with anyone who bought an Apple device since September 2019 being given a free 12-month subscription and everyone else being offered a seven-day trial, there has been ample opportunity for people to check out Apple’s offering. It is still early days, of course, and perhaps Apple TV+ doesn’t yet have enough subscribers for one of its shows to really penetrate the social consciousness. That said, it feels as though nothing on the service has really grabbed public attention in the way of, say, Netflix’s Stranger Things, Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys or even Disney+’s The Mandalorian. For All Mankind and Little American are particularly strong, but the Rotten Tomatoes rating system suggests that practically everything on Apple TV+ is broadly liked. Apple TV+ doesn’t so much lose the numbers game as fail to turn up for it.Īpple’s original content is at least good. Meanwhile, Disney+ boasts 350 TV shows and 500 films. What subscribers to Apple TV+ get is access to Apple’s library of new and exclusive content which, at the time of writing, consists of 17 titles: 14 TV shows and three films.

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