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  • HBO Max ditches tvOS API for homegrown solution, chaos ensues

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    Anyone else noticing native  Dolby 5.1 not working.  Only PCM. Is this new?
    williamlondonkillroywatto_cobra

  • Fans slam Apple TV+ 'Friday Night Baseball' stream outages, commentary team

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    JustMee said:
    Joe_K said:
    Apple has exclusives for these games, so no blackouts.
    Games can be blacked out in home team regions in order to encourage fan attendance and revenue.
    Whether a company has exclusive broadcast rights or not does not, in itself, have bearing on blackouts or not.
    Wrong. No black outs for AT+ Friday night package.  

    As for the first Friday night stream - thought both were very well done. No connectivity issues here. 

    The production value was clean and impressive. 

    The broadcast team for the Astros v Angels far surpassed that if the Mets Nationals broadcast team. 

    Everything else is twister noise and folks that love to decry Apple’s foray into something “out of their lane”. 




    ronnwatto_cobralolliverjony0

  • Apple TV hardware will never be more than a hobby, unless Apple changes direction

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    DAalseth said:
    I honestly do not see any point to the AppleTV. We’ve subscribed to AppleTV+ a couple of times, and played it on our iPads, sometimes our iPhones. Same with other streaming services. Same with AppleArcade. There is no reason whatsoever I would need or want to get an AppleTV box, there is nothing it does that I can’t already do.
    Aside from the fact that Apple TV is absolutely the best streaming hardware on the market - I completely agree with you. 
    RudeBoyRudylolliverappleinsideruser

  • Apple execs explain why you should use Apple Maps over competitors

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    appleinsideruser said:
    collin said:
    I love the street light icons in the intersections.  Makes judging distance to a turn so much easier.  But my only issue is that i can't find a way to set that it to always uses the fastest route.  I have a number of places that i go that are quicker if i take a toll road.  But apple maps always works so hard to make me navigate around them.  Even if i change the route at the start, by the time i get there, it has updated to navigate around the toll road normally adding time to my trip.  

    Please give me a setting that always picks the fastest route. 

    Just worth checking you have Avoid Tolls turned off?
    I have avoid tolls turned off  - but in my use case - apple does not include access to HOV lanes that double as a toll road during certain times of the day; Waze does this with ease…

    I generally have both Waze and Apple Maps running on trips.  Where one fails (and they both do regularly) the other picks up the slack. 
    JWSCwatto_cobra

  • New Apple TV 4K with A15, HDR10+, more storage debuts

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    illrigger said:
    verne arase said:
    22july2013 said:

    The spec bump comes with a spec thump... no Thread.
    The higher end model is $149 and includes an A15, thread, ethernet, and 128 GB storage.

    What's not to like?
    Well, the fact that they neutered the $129 price point model so badly that you can get almost the same functionality from a $50 Roku or FireTV stick, but that's just good news for Apple since their formerly DOA high-end Apple TV 4K is now the only one worth buying. And for that price, I admit it's a good product. It is finally competing with the nVidia Shield TV directly, and given the Shield is 7+ years old at this point, it's good that someone has finally caught up.
    That you dare reference a $50 Roku or firestick along side an Apple TV - neutered or not - shows how little you understand the performance gap between devices. 
    curtis hannah