The Apple TV may be shiny, black and sleek, but it’s boring too. If you are not impressed with the design, you can hide it behind a TV or wrap it in this pleasure silicone case from Elago turning the power box into a retro console reminiscent of the Super Famicom—Minus any fun Nintendo games.
Unlike a skin that requires extraordinary patience to carefully place posters that make the Apple TV look like something other than a black box, Elago’s T4 Apple TV case looks more like the soft, flexible silicone containers you put on make your smartphone appear to protect them from bumps. a choice. (The a company is really going out of its way to prevent the design being inspired by the Super Famicom or any Nintendo product, but it does not seem to be.)
The installation process may be a little more involved, given how thick the Apple TV box is, but it is not do not let yourself get angry afterwards. What does the $ 25 case do for Apple’s streaming box? Not really. The Apple TV’s power LED still shines through the front of the faux console, what a delicious detail, but the function of the box is not going to change. And if you want your Apple TV remote to look like a Super Famicom controller, this is an extra $ 15 for that silicone case.
If you want to play classic games from the Super Famicom and SNES era, you’re probably better off using an Android TV-based streaming box instead of Apple’s closed-down solution. Yes, you can jump through a few rings to get the Apple TV emulators and ROMs working, but it’s so much easier with the competition’s streaming boxes.
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