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?

If you don't see a number in the official Apple documentation, then there are no promises and the limit's going to depend both on the OS version and the device you're running on.

How many instances of AVPlayer are allowed?
 
 
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