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  • Review: 'The Elephant Queen' on Apple TV+ is absolutely stunning

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    philboogie said:
    CloudTalkin said:
    Big fan of Mr. Ejiofor and his body of work.  Howevah... a nature documentary is really remiss if the narrator's narrator isn't on the 1's and 2's mic.  Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS FRSA FLS FZS FSA FRSGS is the voice of nature.  This is fact. No one denies this.
    Oprah might feel differently on that one...
    Oprah was awful when she did Planet Earth. There was a big backlash over Discovery Channel using her and changing the narration instead of using the original narration with Attenborough. Ironically, the Attenborough DVD/Blu Ray set destroyed the Oprah version in sales. 
    watto_cobraurahara

  • Apple expected to release iPad Pro, MacBook Pro with Mini LED displays

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    tht said:
    wood1208 said:
    What happened to MicroLED ? Sooner Apple moves off Samsung OLED, better of Apple and iPhone users. Apple needs to control it's destiny for every component goes into it's products.
    It’s still coming. Mini-LED is basically a transitional or in-between step.

    MicroLED is essentially where each pixel has its own individual LED backlight behind it. Today’s LED LCDs have one LED backlight for all the pixels, all 3, 6, 12 million of them. The Pro XDR display has about 576 LED backlights arrayed behind the pixels, lighting up 35k pixels each. This rumored iPad and MBP miniLED has 10,000 LED backlights arrayed behind the pixels, so about 600 to 700 pixels for each LED backlight. That would be a square of about 25x25 pixels per backlight, or about 3 x 3 mm at 200 PPI.

    As the technology gets further, it’ll be down to 4x4 or 2x2 pixels, and eventually just 1. So like OLED, but with less risk for organic polymer degradation (burn-in, nonuniform colors, et al), and hopefully good bye to Pentile.


    MicroLED will be immune to burn in since it's not using an organic compound. Personally, I can't wait for MicroLED to become mainstream. Both my OLED TV's have burn in. On one TV, the burn in is really bad. I did see Samsung's MicroLED on display and I was quite impressed. Unfortunately we are still some years away before this technology is affordable. I believe Samsung is releasing MicroLED TV's next year, but they are going to cost in the tens of thousands of dollars. The biggest hurdle for MicroLED from my understanding is the very expensive manufacturing process. 
    watto_cobradocno42

  • US denies Apple tariff relief on remaining five Mac Pro parts

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    aplnub said:
    On such an expensive niche computer, I can't see this as an issue.
    I think you mean expensive cheese grater /s
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  • Apple releases iOS 13.1.2, iPadOS 13.1.2, watchOS 6.0.1 updates

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    I assume iCloud Drive file sharing will come out in 13.2. Desperately waiting for that and sign in with Apple. 
    watto_cobra

  • Spotify iOS beta gains ability to make Siri music requests

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    CheeseFreeze said:
    There is still anti competition going on by Apple. 
    They should be sued for having taken years to have third parties integrate Siri into music apps - a category they blocked.

    Secondly they should be sued for the fact you still need to say “on Spotify”, because leaving it out - the “default” - is still Apple Music. 

    iOS should include an option to set the defaults for music, navigation and other categories, so that Siri can take that setting as the ‘default’.
    I completely agree. Apple should be sued for users having to say two extra words to use Spotify. How dare they!
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