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    Apple One launches today, bundling Music, iCloud, more for $14.95 and up

    This isn't entirely true, actually. If I back up a CD (or even import files) into iTunes, they all get put through the same sort of matching process as iCloud Match used to do, and the resulting files (if you delete the rips/imports and download from iCloud Music Library) are indeed un-DRM'd in...
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    With theaters still closed, Warner Bros. drops latest Tenet trailer in Fortnite

    They did launch a "Party Royale" mode recently where you can just "be" and watch events and stuff without being headshot. I haven't checked it out because I tried that exact same thing years ago in this "next generation" thing called Second Life, and it was bollocks. Slash wave, my virtual...
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    Netflix’s first interactive sitcom: Good for laughs, deserves a better app

    The common wisdom appears to be that the Netflix app on Apple TV is the last relic of an old build of their app, which remains because Apple requires native 24p support. I have no idea whether or not there's even a vague bit of truth in that - but certainly, despite semi-regular updates, Netflix...
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    Penny Dreadful: City of Angels walks a fine line between realism, the supernatural

    I wasn't impressed at all by the first episode of this one. It seemed weirdly unnatural in the performances and direction, and surprisingly dull and muddled for such a long episode run time. I'm not a "Penny Dreadful" tragic, by the way - I just started watching the original series a week ago...
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    Netflix and YouTube cut streaming quality in Europe to handle pandemic

    Within hours of this story being reported here in Australia, one of our own clueless politicians went into full parrot mode and repeated the call for Netflix, as well as the other major streaming service here (Stan) to lower their bitrates, and according to the mainstream news media here, both...
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    Praise the algorithm! Netflix lets you opt out of loud, autoplaying previews

    Just a side note that "autoplay next episode" has been able to be turned off at the account level for literally years. Back in the glorious days before Netflix invented "post play" that's exactly what it did, too. What we need now is an option to stop the "shrink the credits and count down to...
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    Disney+’s The Mandalorian joins a long list of fake HDR content, analysis finds

    Nice story, but that never actually happened. Funny how myths propagate and eventually become facts in some circles as memories fade. To my knowledge there has never, ever been a commercial Blu-ray release that was upscaled from 720x480 or 720x576. Sure, you'll find plenty of upscaled DVD-era...
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    Apple’s new repair program covers iPhone 6S and 6S Plus phones that won’t turn on

    This is exactly what happened to my 6s. I had the battery replaced, well out of warranty, under the battery replacement program. But within six months, I was starting to see the same behaviour again (the phone suddenly shutting off for no reason, usually when the battery hit around 30%). I went...
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    Stranger Things 3, eps. 1-4: Hawkins, Indiana, will never be the same

    You're completely wrong across the board there - they were all very much the original recordings, with one exception ("Never Ending Story" sung by cast members). I'm not sure how hearing the actual, original recordings made you think they'd been redone. Perhaps you remember them differently to...