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There should be some new 4k ones. They demo'ed them at the recent Apple event.

Hmm.

Open question to anyone with the latest tvOS firmware sitting around: what happens if you grep it for `entries.json`? Do you get a different URL?

Obviously what I'm getting at is ways to try and find (or keep an eye out for) the latest URLs.

This (https://sylvan.apple.com/Aerials/2x/entries.json) appears to be the new URL for all the screensavers. The new entries file includes both normal and HDR versions of each of the screensavers, though on non-HDR displays, the SDR versions look a lot better than the (converted) HDR ones [1]. Unfortunately, all the new screensavers are encoded using HEVC [2] so they can't easily be played on OS versions without native support.

[1]: https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/issues/378#issuecomment...

[2]: https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/issues/378#issuecomment...

Wow, that was awesome reading how the new URL was obtained!

Thanks very much.

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