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Accidental Tech Podcast

433: Before We Leave the Dump

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 128 minutes

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0:00.0

Moving on I have a quick HDMI update if you recall you mean a homie update a homie update

0:05.5

That's right. I have a homie update. Oh speaking of I don't think I'll remember to put in the show notes

0:09.6

But somebody had to actually put done a a recreation of my got awful diagram on an actual physical Newton

0:16.6

Which was delightful and if the chat room can find it I will put in the show notes

0:21.7

But I won't be able to dig it up and I would say it looks better than yours by the way

0:25.2

Probably does so yeah my homie update I

0:31.3

Had said last episode that I had seemed to kind of thread the needle and ride the line on doing a slower frame rate

0:40.3

yet

0:41.7

Still having 4k

0:42.9

I think Dolby vision if I'm not mistaken because if you recall I have you know old HDMI cables in the walls and

0:48.9

And the Apple TV was not happy with whatever situation I had going on and I was able to get 4k Dolby vision

0:56.4

But it like 30 Hertz or something like that. I don't remember the details. It doesn't matter well as it turns out

1:00.9

Over time or no, I think I had at 50 Hertz and over the next few days as we continue to use the Apple TV

1:05.9

Which all in all I really really like as it turns out the 50 Hertz Dolby vision wasn't good enough

1:11.5

And I had to keep cranking it back and cranking it back and I think I ended up at either Dolby vision or maybe just HDR

1:17.1

At 30 Hertz until I finally got my fancy new 8k certified as John had a very good chuckle about

1:25.0

8k certified HDMI cable from Monoprice and sure enough

1:28.4

I've had that plugged in for a couple days now and everything is better now

1:31.3

I've only done it by draping it over the TV and draping it down the side of the mantle above which the TV sits

1:37.4

Please I know it's too too high leave me alone

1:40.5

So it's not installed properly yet, but at least at this point

1:44.2

I'm not getting flashes of blackness and in disappearing audio

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