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  • Tom Hanks disappointed with Apple TV+ 'Greyhound' release

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    OutdoorAppDeveloper said:
    Apple could fix the quality issue by allowing users to pre-download (cache) the full quality movie to their devices before watching it. This is something that none of the streaming services provide. It is likely a dumb licensing restriction. Content owners want the streaming quality to be reduced so that they can sell a higher quality digital master version of the movie (a guess). Never mind that many (most?) customers have bandwidth limits or restrictions that make it impossible to even get the best streaming quality and have to put up with freezes, stutters or super blurry video at random intervals. Hanks is absolutely correct that the quality of his film has been reduced. He is being rather kind in not saying just how much it has been reduced.
    You need to talk with your ISP about your QoS issues.
    Xed

  • Tom Hanks disappointed with Apple TV+ 'Greyhound' release

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    Perhaps Mr. Hanks would rather his pet project not come out at all.

    And he, of all people, should understand that these are not typical times; and that he should put his "disappointment" in perspective. Afterall, many people from around the world are also "disappointed"... that they have parents, grandparents, siblings, or even sons or daughters, that are no longer alive due to Coronavirus. Whole families have been wiped-out. And Hanks is complaining that he had to sit in front of a white wall for an interview?!? Cry me a river!

    His diatribe comes off as extremely-offputting, immature and entitled whining, not befitting his rather considerable talents.
    elijahg

  • Apple researching glass keyboard for strength and transparency

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    shamino said:
    Key caps where letters don't rub off have been available for decades.  They're called double-shot keycaps, where the two colors (background and glyph) are two different colors of plastic molded together.

    This is old tech, but it works great.  It's a shame so many manufacturers choose to not use it, in order to save a few cents.

    Yes, I too mourn the passing of nice, double-shot keycaps...

    But the tooling does add up; when you are talking as many different keyboards as Apple has to support!
    watto_cobra

  • Apple researching glass keyboard for strength and transparency

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    exceptionhandler said:
    I wanted one of these back in the day, but way too expensive for my wallet.  Each key was an LCD screen.

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0042FWNMW/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=gnlt-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0042FWNMW
    Poor Art Lebedev!

    Yeah. I had that same idea in 1980; but obviously not practical at the time. And even still too expensive later-on...
    watto_cobra

  • Benchmarks for iMac with unreleased Intel processor & Radeon Pro surface

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    johnbear said:
    chasm said:
    While I’m not personally in the market for an iMac, my main hope for those buying one is that Apple finally removes the last vestiges of traditional hard drives from its lineup with this model. Fusion drives were a clever idea when they first arrived — nicely bridging the then-expensive costs of SSDs while balancing the benefits through intelligent management — the costs of SSD tech has come down to the point that the very notion of Apple offering a 5400RPM (!) hard drive as the main storage of a Fusion Drive in 2020 is nearly criminal in its cruelty to consumers on what is otherwise a very fast and capable machine.
    I would add here to the list the abominable 10-year old 720p webcam that the MacBook pros of 2020 are equipped with
    So, pray tell, who in their right mind needs a 4k (or even 1080p) camera mounted into the lid of their laptop!?!

    Afterall, your face (or junk) is less than a foot away from a lid-mounted camera; so exactly how much detail do you really think is useful for that FaceTime or Zoom chat???

    increasing the resolution (and thus the required transmission bandwidth) of a lid-mounted webcam in a laptop is nothing more than useless spec-checklisting that is typically the hallmark of nasty Windows laptops.

    Apple users are generally smart enough not to fall for that ridiculous and useless form of pissing-contest.
    watto_cobra