The HDMI Holiday Spec-tacular
12/24/20 • 79 min
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For a special Vergecast holiday episode, The Verge’s Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Chris Welch talk to three industry experts about the new HDMI 2.1 standard: Polygon's front page editor Samit Sarkar, Vizio CTO Bill Baxter, and HDMI Forum president David Glen.
The Vergecast crew discuss what to look for when buying a new TV, how serious the TV manufacturers are on supporting 2.1, and how the new standard is being implemented throughout the industry.
Happy holidays!
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For a special Vergecast holiday episode, The Verge’s Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Chris Welch talk to three industry experts about the new HDMI 2.1 standard: Polygon's front page editor Samit Sarkar, Vizio CTO Bill Baxter, and HDMI Forum president David Glen.
The Vergecast crew discuss what to look for when buying a new TV, how serious the TV manufacturers are on supporting 2.1, and how the new standard is being implemented throughout the industry.
Happy holidays!
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The Verge's Dieter Bohn, Nilay Patel, and Adi Robertson discuss the two antitrust lawsuits against Google announced this week. Chris Welch joins to discuss his review of Apple's AirPods Max.
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- Facebook hits back at Apple with second critical newspaper ad
- Apple defends upcoming privacy changes as ‘standing up for our users’
- Epic Games Store now offers Spotify, signaling app store ambitions beyond just games
- Judge orders Tim Cook and Craig Federighi to testify in Epic’s Fortnite case
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- Apple Fitness Plus is now available
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- Samsung confirms stylus support is coming to Galaxy phones like the S21
- Samsung’s Galaxy Note series will reportedly still continue next year
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- OnePlus 9 leak shows off the upcoming 2021 flagship in photos
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Trump banned from Twitter, Facebook, and others / Parler banned from app stores
Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Adi Robertson, and Casey Newton chronicle the week since the Capitol riot: Trump gets deplatformed and Parler is removed from app stores.
Further reading:
- It’s 2021, and the pandemic is still here
- FDA tells US health providers not to modify COVID-19 vaccine dose schedule
- Florida counties use Eventbrite to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments
- Twitter permanently bans Trump
- Twitter is deleting Trump’s attempts to circumvent ban
- Twitter bans QAnon supporters, including former national security adviser Michael Flynn
- Twitter pulls Trump video that it said posed a ‘risk of violence’
- Facebook bans Trump ‘indefinitely’
- YouTube says it will punish Trump and other channels that continue to spread election lies
- YouTube removes Trump video addressing Capitol attack
- Platforms take action against Trump after Capitol mob attack
- Reddit bans r/donaldtrump forum for inciting violence
- Twitch disables Trump’s account indefinitely
- Big Tech pauses political spending after Capitol riot: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Airbnb are pausing spending
- Shopify takes down Trump’s campaign store
- Google pulls Parler from Play Store for fostering calls to violence
- Apple removes Parler from the App Store
- Parler CEO says even his lawyers are abandoning him
- Parler is gone for now as Amazon terminates hosting
- Parler posts, some with GPS data, have been archived by an independent researcher
- Parler sues Amazon for kicking it off the internet
- Why the post-Capitol deplatforming was necessary
- Trump’s ban from Twitter creates the ultimate case of link rot in posts across the internet
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