Need proof that Amazon is increasingly focused on blockbuster shows? Here’s Exhibit A. Amazon has announced that The Romanoffs, the anthology series from Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner, will premiere on October 12th… and it’ll have a star-studded…
The follow-up to DJI’s flagship Mavic drone has been a bit of an open secret recently, but it seems the early release of an advertisement has revealed the last remaining details. The newest issue of the UK catalog Argos has spilled the beans on almost everything except the pricing, and drone fans have been quick to share the ad online. … Continue reading
As much as people would like it to vanish, it’s clear that vertical video is here to stay. YouTube, the world’s largest platform for user-submitted video, held out on supporting vertical video for the longest time before finally caving in and adding support for it to its mobile apps. It has now added support for vertical video to the web player.
YouTube has updated its web player on the desktop. It now automatically adapts to provide the best viewing experience based on the video’s aspect ratio and the PC’s screen and browser size.
The web player would previously show black bars alongside the video for vertical and square videos which would make it appear really small. The update eliminates the need for black bars. This update was launched for YouTube’s mobile apps a while back, both Android and iOS, and with this change YouTube has aligned the desktop and mobile viewing experiences.
Not only will YouTube enlarge the video appropriately and remove the black bars, it would also do this for 16:9 aspect ratio as well. This will enable the web player to take advantage of the additional blank space to enlarge the picture.
This change many not incentivize users to shoot video in widescreen but at least YouTube may stop them from flocking to platforms where vertical video feels at home, i.e Instagram.
YouTube Web Player Now Supports Vertical Videos , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
There have been countless reports over the past few months that Samsung has a new flagship tablet in the pipeline. It’s the successor to the Galaxy Tab S3 and will most likely be called the Galaxy Tab S4. Samsung hasn’t confirmed as yet when this tablet is going to be launched but a new report claims that the company will officially unveil the device on August 1st.
AndroidHeadlines hears from a source familiar with the company’s plans that Samsung is going to host an event on August 1st to unveil the Galaxy Tab S4. This means that earlier reports about Samsung launching the tablet at IFA 2018 in Berlin this September were inaccurate.
Some reports had claimed that perhaps the company would unveil the tablet alongside the Galaxy Note 9 when the handset is launched on August 9th. If this report is accurate then Samsung may not be waiting until August 9th to unveil its new tablet, it will do that on August 1st itself.
Samsung hasn’t officially confirmed or denied anything related to the Galaxy Tab S4 at this point in time. The tablet is said to feature a 16:10 aspect ratio 10.5 inch 2560×1600 pixel resolution display, with a Snapdragon 835 processor and 4GB of RAM.
In addition to the abovementioned specs, the tablet will also have a 13 megapixel rear and 8 megapixel front camera, a 7,300mAh battery, Bluetooth 5.0, and an iris scanner. Several renders of the tablet have already been leaked online as well.
Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 Launch Said To Take Place On August 1st , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Amazon had a unique process of deciding which Prime Video pilots would be picked up for a series. It asked viewers to vote on the pilots and the company would then decide on the series orders based on that democratic process. It’s doing away with it for now, though. Amazon has confirmed that it will no longer be taking votes from viewers to decide on Prime Video pilots.
Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke has said that the company has decided that the Prime Video pilot voting will be “set aside for now.”
This doesn’t mean that Amazon will stop requesting new pilots and picking them up for series. It’s not going to be basing that decision on votes from viewers for now. The company will rely on internal testing and “some user data” to make these decisions.
It’s not that Amazon doesn’t have faith in the voting system, the company appears to be questioning the efficacy of the entire pilot system. The concept of making conventional TV pilots have led to shows “taking way too long” to arrive on the platform, said Amazon’s Albert Chang.
Thus the idea here is to remove a step that’s causing new shows to take longer to arrive on the platform particularly when rivals like Netflix don’t go through the process and are capable of quickly bringing original content to their platforms.
Amazon No Longer Wants Viewers To Vote On Prime Video Pilots , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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