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Accidental Tech Podcast Oct 24, 2024

610: More Values in the Darkness
https://atp.fm/610

Who will be the last person in the world using Quicksilver? We'll give you one guess.

Accidental Tech Podcast: 610: More Values in the Darkness

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

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Henri Sivonen Oct 27, 2024

@atpfm Re: What streaming video-relevant hardware refresh could Apple do to Apple TV? They now have an AV1 decoder in the A series SoCs, so they could refresh to a SoC that has the AV1 decoder. Relevant e.g. to YouTube and Netflix. https://netflixtechblog.com/bringing-av1-streaming-to-netflix-members-tvs-b7fc88e42320

Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs - Netflix TechBlog

AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources…

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sayrer

@hsivonen @atpfm It's still a little slow. Stutters on soccer and basketball games. These are on a 7 second delay, so they don't show anything gruesome. Also, add “Find My" to the remote.