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I had to look to remember, I'm on a $10/year subscription for "Pro". From looking at their page I'd say some codec support is under the Pro license. I know I haven't thrown anything at it that needed transcoding, but I'm not playing anything exotic either.
Being annual and pretty cheap I really don't mind throwing them some money to continue development, it's worth it to me for the experience. I can't tell from the website but I feel like there's a monthly option if ya just want to test the waters.
High end model is $150 (US). Very fast and yes Apple gets some of your info but it's not getting resold to advertisers and 3rd parties. Generally speaking doesn't require adware to keep the price low.
FWIW, I have no trouble playing any of my alternatively sourced media, 4K Dolby Vision included, using an app called Infuse. Pass-through audio may indeed be an issue for some lossless surround formats, or at least that's what it sounded like the last I looked into it some years ago. I don't have the right room to set up surrounds so it's stereo only over here anyway. But that said I love the app, lovely interface, etc.
I liked it more than I thought I would, but the "AI fake" effect
was a bit noticeable here and there. After watching the 4k UHD, I put in my Blu-ray from 10 years ago or whatever, sort of thinking I was going to prefer it's "less digital" graininess, but nope. Definitely found it more distracting than I'd remembered.
So of the two, I'd take the new AI version, though it's not perfect. But the happy medium might be the new AI release on regular Bluray. The lower 1080p image toned down the fakeness a bit I thought.
Yeah and it'd help my sinuses too but at my age I'm used to taking the enzymes when I eat and they work well enough. Long term damage is basically my personality at this point, lol.
Once it gets bad, yeah. I was very end stage before my lung transplant and it's an accurate description.
My younger brother has CF and takes Trikafta and it's absolutely made all the difference in the world, it's wonderful to see. Watching all the years of research and CFF funding finally pay off is really something.
My personal situation is probably pretty unique, in that I have CF as well, but had a double lung tx many years ago. A couple years ago my transplant team (actually it may have been the CF people.. fuzzy memory) asked me if I was interested in getting on Trikafta and after thinking it over for about 30 seconds I told them I'd probably pass. It seemed like it wouldn't have any beneficial effect on my lungs, as they no longer "have CF", and that I assumed it would just make extra weight for my decently healthy but still under par lungs to have to drag around. They didn't disagree.
This is exactly right.
Source: have CF.
Got me a week or two ago. 2018 Intel Mac mini on Monterey. Also did me the lovely convenience of changing my iCloud settings, my desktop background, and turned on screensavers.
Haven't had this issue here either. Metadata currently 731 MB on a 32GB ATV 4k.
99¢/mo or $10/yr iirc. Can't remember how much the lifetime is but I don't mind the annual sub as long as it keeps it maintained.
A classic. For those who don't know, this is the Pinboard guy.
Still got mine. First gen, Mac only, Firewire. Haven't turned it on in a few years, I wonder if it still goes...
Pedantic Post Alert, but there's a few different products called "Apple TV". There's the hardware box called Apple TV that comes with a remote and plugs into the HDMI on your TV. That IS an alternative to Roku.
Then there's the Apple TV app, which runs on the Apple TV box. This can integrate with some other streaming services and show you their content in the app. Not Netflix or HBO (or some others) though.
And finally (that's all?) there's the Apple TV+ service that's 4.99 a month and lets you watch shows that Apple produces in the Apple TV app on the Apple TV box (or your iPhone, iPad, etc.)
It's all named very well and clear.
Just want to say thank you for what you do. I spent a few days on ECMO in 2005 during the course of a double lung tx and saw some true heroics from the folks keeping me alive. It was a hell of an experience.