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  • CLSA reports strong, resilient demand for iPhones in China at the expense of Huawei, Samsung

    normmnormm
    I was just looking at the Gartner data for second quarter 2015 (I think the rest of the year was similar).  World smartphone sales up 13.5% year over year, Apple iPhone sales up 36% year over year.  Smartphone sales down 4% in China, Apple iPhone sales up 68%.
    JamesBBcornchipbadmonk

  • VLC comes to Apple TV with wide format support, 'Remote Playback' feature

    normmnormm
    pmcd said:
    Not a big fan of VLC but it's very nice that it is available. There are now many apps that play a variety of formats. For example, MrMC which is basically Kodi ( without AddOns) and Infuse both bring a lot to the platform. There's also Video Player for Many Movie Formats, OneVideo and of course the server client solutions such as Plex, AirVideo HD.  Pretty impressive for such as short time.
    williamlondon said:
    Will check this out. Currently using Infuse (and pleasantly surprised how nice it is, though it has some ways to go to be indispensable) since there is no Kodi (haven't yet checked out MrMC - should look at that one too). What are people's favourites here (other than the stock Apple app)?
    My favorite by far is Air Video HD.  Beautifully done!  But regardless of which app you use, running it directly on the Apple TV is nice.  I actually have both server and ATV plugged into the wired network, so I never have flaky-wireless issues.


    williamlondonargonaut

  • Review: Devialet Phantom is a high-end speaker worth its weight in Kevlar

    normmnormm
    The statement, "There is no on/off switch" appears just above a picture with the on/off switch.  Also, you should mention that this thing is about a foot across -- I couldn't tell from the pictures.  Another interesting spec worth mentioning is that this thing can put out 105dB at 1 meter (using 3KW of power!), which is louder than a jackhammer at 1 meter.  That seems pretty loud.

    The idea of using a microphone to avoid distortion in a speaker system seems interesting.  It's obviously much easier to make a microphone that can accurately capture (    highly attenuated) sound from a hard-driven speaker than to make a speaker that would be accurate at high volume, so you can electronically compensate how you drive to better match what you're trying to get.  So I believe this might be good at high sound volume.

    But the sound volumes we're talking about here seem kind of crazy to me.

    Soliargonautcnocbui