Today, Apple finally announced a new version of the Apple TV 4K. The set-top box hasn’t gotten an update since its 2022 iterations—one with an Ethernet port and one without—and now it’s here with a few new tricks up its sleeve. The main thing you should know is there is only one version available, and it’s the most expensive Apple TV box the company has ever wanted to shove in front of your television.
First look at the new $299 Apple TV 4K with built-in farfield mics and the new Siri Remote with built-in speaker for Find My pic.twitter.com/KKBRMjPesZ
The big changes for the Apple TV 4K are that it now runs on an A19 chip, first found in the iPhone 17. That chip enables a specially-built AV1 decoder, which the Cupertino, California tech giant promised should offer better streaming at a lower bandwidth. Apple also upgraded the box to support an N1 chip with Wi-Fi 7 support. The new Apple TV 4K has 128GB of storage, the same as the last-generation model with an Ethernet port as well as a Wi-Fi connection. Now that it’s packed with more memory at the base, you can already guess what’s coming. The new set-top box is now $299, $100 more than the previous generation after recent price hikes. That’s just under $150 more than a Google TV Streamer box and the same price as Nvidia’s Shield Pro, all of which have gone up in price in recent months.
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