How many instances of AVPlayer are allowed?

On the new Apple TV (running tvOS 9.1), there appears to be a hard limit of 7 simultaneous AVPlayers onscreen. This is lower than the limit we are seeing on recent devices running iOS 9.2. Is the limit of 7 simultaneous AVPlayers by design on tvOS? Or is it limited based on the performance of the device?

How many instances of AVPlayer are allowed?
 
 
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