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Statement says he is, but further clarifications made it seemed like he’d only stay through the transition period post merger with no clarifications after that.

Lol Bobby Kotic is staying what a joke. Dude’s a slug

Hulu is a technological Turducken. Biggest reason I want them to kill it and just bundle the content into the Disney+ app. At its core, it’s still designed to deliver 720p family guy episodes to browsers. Their 4K quality is atrocious, they couldn’t deliver basic 5.1 audio to Apple TV for ages, HDR is a mess.

Kinda amazing they didn’t have the 4K versions of thrones ready on day one. Not excited to see house of the dragon in blur-80p

Funny thing about HBO is their HD bit rate is still abysmal. The dark scenes in last week’s Euphoria premiere were insanely compressed. Their 4K pipeline is a clearly different system from the rest of the turducken that is HBO Max

$10/month for 480p video. Insulting.

That’s the Apple TV app on google TV. I’m talking about the Apple TV box. Only thing that makes sense is the "watch list" in the library tab. But that tab is awful anyway. As long as continue watching works that’s what most people care about I think.

Amazon is the inverse. It supports the library watch list but not "continue watching". Such a bizarrely anti-consumer stance these companies take.

So did Netflix remove support for that feature? One of the headlines on google tv was that Netflix supported that continue watching bar at launch and didn’t for apple.

Not surprising. If you’ve ever used Paramount+ you know 60M+ is a pain to find in there. It’s confusingly sorted under the 60 Minutes show page and the navigation of the service in general is not at all catered to time-sensitive content.

Shame because they did some excellent reporting.

This is yet another example of bean counter executives having no regard for creators being actual people. Kareem Daniel, a banker put into his position because he kissed up to Bob Chapek when Chapek ran parks, is one of the largest forces degrading the creative spirit at Disney asides from Chapek himself.

Pixar wants their movies to be in theaters. They give your studio awards and beloved IP. Delay the movie.

They also sell the Sonos Boost if you don’t have an Ethernet jack near a speaker, or use powerline adapters since you have to connect it to power anyway

They’re already connected to power. You only need to connect one of them (powerline adapters are great too). Once one Sonos is connected to Ethernet they all fallback onto Sonos net, a private Wi-Fi network that meshes everything together.

Connect a speaker to Ethernet you’re welcome

No the new API where other devices with mics can listen and receive "hey Siri" commands as long as you have a homepod. Siri can do some multiroom control but it sucks if you’re not using Apple Music to Sonos. It can’t, for instance, send airplay 2 audio from non-apple services to other rooms to group them.

(Ex: you play a podcast in overcast to a HomePod mini using airplay, then say "hey Siri play this in the bathroom" where you have a Sonos one SL. It can however do this with Apple Music)

Possibly. Apple execs do use Sonos products personally (I’m still amazed Sonos hasn’t added Siri yet now that they’re allowed to), but I also don’t see Apple licensing something like that.

Sonos always claimed that Google did this during the process of integrating Assistant into the Sonos One et al, so it only makes sense if Google literally was dumb enough to rip code.

Anyone know what exactly Google did that makes this feature infringement? Airplay 2 has this exact functionality, but groups of speakers need to be set up each time and they aren’t consistently sticky. But once they’re grouped and playing, I can control them from my Lock Screen with volume buttons.

Sonos was also very quick to support airplay 2. Really curious how google could’ve, apparently, so blatantly violated Sonos’ patents but Apple didn’t.

Any source for that? EX uses the same deuterium as Evo and they said they’ll start manufacturing starting 2022. Saw on what-Hifi that EX is more the brand that the EVO panel is sold under to other LGD buyers.

So this isn’t the OLED EX panel they announced earlier? What Tv will use that? Their stupid 8K models?

The counter argument I’d make is that apple is really, really good at processing AAC audio over Bluetooth, and any solution that pipes more data into that processing can only benefit. They’re able to turn very lossy files into great sounding audio, so I’d love to see what they can do with more bits. I don’t even care about lossless per-se. Aptx quality, roughly double AAC, would also be super compelling if the new chip/algorithms are built for it.

Pouring one out for AirPods Max owners. Assuming this will require a new audio platform in H2. Built in ultrawide, lossless wireless, and more horsepower for ANC would certainly be compelling reasons to buy, and that’s a silicon thing.

Someone tell the verge it’s ok to delete these posts after the consoles are gone.