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New Apple TV Billboards Start Popping Up in U.S. Cities

Apple has launched (via AppleInsider) a brand new outdoor ad campaign for the Apple TV a week after debuting its first TV commercials for the new set-top box. The new ads feature a variation of the SMPTE color bars, a television test pattern, as a backdrop to the simple Apple TV logo.

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Image via SMPTE Connect

The color bars are also featured in the TV ads, dispersing in different ways as the ad showcases its apps or games. Thus far, the billboards have been spotted in Los Angeles, Boston, New York, San Francisco, Beverly Hills and Hollywood.

The ads appear to have gone up in the last 24 hours, with Instagram user Courtney Cerruti noting that she saw workers tugging the image into place and that they went up "in unison." Additionally, every current picture of the new billboards have appeared within the last 11 hours or so. The ads also come in different formats, with some ads in a vertical orientation on buildings and others in a more traditional horizontal format.

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Top Rated Comments

NicolasLGA Avatar
136 months ago
I hope people have noticed that this is not simply a "variation" on the color bars pattern...

It's the original Apple rainbow logo.

Very good marketing. I love it.
Score: 20 Votes (Like | Disagree)
136 months ago
The colors, they're back!
Score: 17 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Cisco_Kid Avatar
136 months ago
Now lets have everyone overanalyze these ads...
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
szw-mapple fan Avatar
136 months ago
I feel sorry for the people whose office is behind that huge banner...
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
136 months ago
I'm having flashbacks...

Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
136 months ago
I like it. But then, I already own an Apple TV 4 (and love it) and I know that "bars and tone" are a broadcast standard for calibration and not a "glitch" like some here seem to think.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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