Television: The Future of TV 17+

Silly fun.

Update: Sandwich’s comment is forcing me to give Television 5 stars. My arm is twisted and I’m looking forward to the future of Television.

Version 1.0 review/comments - now outdated.

Growing up as a little kid in the 1970’s, with Saturday morning cartoons and weekend sci-fi movies on a local UHF channel, I am excited about clunky old tube TVs in Vision Pro. Television the app is not ready for Prime Time. The only videos it seems to play need to be in your Photos library or unprotected video files copied from a computer. There are no streaming services. No iTunes purchases. No MKV file support. If you want to see yourself on a little (or massive) tube TV, this is the app for you. But don’t expect to watch the latest 3D movies. On the technical side, the “close” and “move bar” are always visible killing the immersion. The “move bar” also seems to drift from the TVs I have set up. It might be rotated 90 degrees to the right or it might be missing altogether so you have to force quit it to close. I hope it has a bright future but that future isn’t here. Yet.

Developer Response ,

Hey thanks so much for the feedback, Reid! I was born in '78 so I'm right there with you. And you're so right about limited functionality of 1.0, which we considered the MVP in the same way Vision Pro is an MVP—it points to the future but we're not quite sure what to do about it yet. That's why I'm so excited that 1.1 which was just released has full YouTube support, which will offer hours of fun per day, instead of minutes. Because...there's a lot of stuff on YouTube, and there's a TV in the app that's perfect for everything you could watch. Last night I watched an episode of Welcome Back Kotter on the 80s CRT.

If you'll give us a shot, play with the 1.1 and it delights you more than 1.0, and you'd consider notching up your rating even 1 start, I'd be over the moon. We want to make something you want to use every single time you put on the Vision Pro. Thanks again!

Almost perfect

I really like the app, but when when the TV is not in immersive mode, the white bar to move the tv and the button to exit the app stays on. Other than that, it’s a fun app and will be perfect when you can watch videos from different apps.

This is hilarious and fun!

I was hesitant to buy this. I thought this would be too gimmicky and not practical. However, it has a perfect vibe of an actual Television playing in the background. I really enjoy that while I’m working.