Yes. Aero out­puts in 4K and sup­ports 4K stream­ing from BBC iPlay­er, Net­flix, Dis­ney+, Prime Video, and YouTube.

It sup­ports HDR10 and HDR10+. Dolby Vis­ion isn’t sup­por­ted, but HDR10+ includes dynam­ic metadata for an excel­lent HDR picture.

The default refresh rate is 60Hz, which gen­er­ally gives the best exper­i­ence across Freely, Net­flix, and You­Tube. If you mainly watch Freely and notice any frame rate issues, you can switch to 50Hz in the settings.

For HDMI 2.1 TVs, the Aero can switch refresh rates dynam­ic­ally using Quick Media Switch­ing. An Auto Frame Rate option is com­ing soon for all TVs.

The Aero runs TiVo OS rather than Android. This means you can’t side­load apps, but you get Freely and a cur­ated, con­sist­ent exper­i­ence with all the major apps pre-loaded and work­ing reli­ably. TiVo OS is designed for stream­ing and includes fea­tures like the TiVo+ chan­nels and on-demand lib­rary at no extra cost.

A con­nec­tion of 10Mbps or more is suf­fi­cient for Freely and stream­ing apps to work well. IPTV typ­ic­ally deliv­ers bet­ter pic­ture qual­ity than tra­di­tion­al ter­restri­al broadcast.

Yes, the Aero sup­ports HDMI-CEC, so you can con­trol it with your TV remote.

Note: The Home but­ton on TVs opens the TV’s menu rather than the Aero’s Home screen — the included Aero remote works best for full navigation.

Yes, Bluetooth head­phones can be con­nec­ted by going to: Devices → Bluetooth Accessories.

Instantly. Star­tup from standby is imme­di­ate, and the Aero uses less than 0.3 W in standby mode.

No. The Aero runs TiVo OS, not Android, so apps can’t be side­loaded. All avail­able apps are pre-loaded and found in the All Apps sec­tion. New apps are added to TiVo OS regularly.

The Aero can play media con­tent from a USB drive. Plex is also avail­able if you have a Plex media serv­er. There’s no built-in net­work media play­er for access­ing files on your loc­al network.

Freely and UK catch-up apps are geo-blocked and only work with­in the UK.

We don’t, and here’s why a Freely record­er doesn’t really make sense:

Broad­casters don’t allow streamed con­tent to be recor­ded. That’s a Freely plat­form lim­it­a­tion. To record, you’d need an aer­i­al for Freeview — mean­ing a hybrid box would need both broad­band and an aerial.

But Freely pri­or­it­ises the aer­i­al when both are con­nec­ted, mean­ing worse pic­ture qual­ity on most chan­nels and no live pause func­tion­al­ity. You’d also need two sep­ar­ate TV Guides since Freely doesn’t sup­port set­ting recordings.

Rather than mak­ing one awk­ward hybrid that does neither thing well, we’ve made two focused products:

• Want to record, pause, and rewind? The T4‑R gives you full con­trol via your aer­i­al. Con­nect it to broad­band and you also get all the UK catch-up apps.
• Want stream­ing sim­pli­city with no aer­i­al? The Aero gives you Freely plus all your stream­ing apps in one place. Fast chan­nel changes, great pic­ture qual­ity, any room with Wi-Fi.

Dif­fer­ent tools for dif­fer­ent needs.

Man­hat­tan doesn’t sell dir­ectly to cus­tom­ers — all pur­chases are through our retail part­ners. The Aero is avail­able from Amazon, Currys, and John Lewis.