668: So Happy for All Parties Involved
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Marco has a new toy
- Follow-up:
- Everybody is leaving Apple
- Cloudflare’s 18 November Outage
- Ask ATP:
- Why can’t Siri pronounce names correctly? (via Tony West)
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- Why can’t Siri pronounce names correctly? (via Tony West)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right. I had to get a new TV. |
| 0:02.3 | Oh. |
| 0:02.9 | Why did you have to get a new TV? |
| 0:04.7 | Did the other one break? |
| 0:05.8 | My family forced me to get a new TV. |
| 0:08.2 | On account of what? |
| 0:09.9 | So, you know, this is my old LGC7 OLED that we've had since 2017 when it came out. |
| 0:19.6 | Throughout COVID, we played a lot of Minecraft on this TV. |
| 0:22.3 | And so it has, for five years, had the Minecraft Hearts HUD burned into the bottom, |
| 0:28.3 | the bottom corner of it or so. |
| 0:31.2 | And so, you know, every time there's like a gray scene, you see like this outline of this |
| 0:34.8 | row of hearts and a few other things. |
| 0:37.1 | Well, anyway, so, you know, that that burn in area has shifted into greater intensity, I would say, |
| 0:44.7 | over time. |
| 0:46.0 | And then what ultimately has driven my family crazy recently is that in the middle of the screen now, |
| 0:53.1 | it started to develop what appears to be a large green |
| 0:57.3 | splotch, which I, is that just like, maybe like the blue subpixels wearing out or something? |
| 1:02.0 | That just might be something breaking. Like, you're not watching something that has a big splotch there, right? |
| 1:07.1 | Well, it isn't pure green pixels. It's like, like the hue is shifting green for the content being displayed in the middle of the TV. Yeah, that sounds like something different than regular people. It's like the green, the green sub pixels tend to to wear out and become apparent that they're wearing out faster, but I don't understand the blotch. That doesn't make any sense to me. Yeah, like, and so it had grown into about the middle 30% of the TV where like everything that that is being, that was being watched on it was like, you know, just slowly turning green and yellow and it was just getting really ugly and like very distracting. |
| 1:39.5 | Yeah, it's time for new TV. |
| 1:40.7 | Yeah. So it's like, all right. So my family was finally like, just please, can we please get a new TV? So Black Friday took advantage. You got the LGG5 to replace it. Did you get it yet? I did. So it came, you know, last night. I got it. I set it up today. And immediately ran into a solvable problem, but a problem nonetheless. Look at the box, where's the feet? Oh, I should have told you, they want you to wallmount a G5. Yeah, they don't come with feet. Oh, interesting. The G-whatever series is always like, you're going to wall-mount this, right? Occasionally, they have had an option where you can get a stand during some years, but I think this is not a stand year. And it doesn't matter because their stands usually suck anyway. Yeah. So anyway, it turns out my previous, my outgoing TV, I had mounted on Vesa feet. At some point, we had a sound bar that was too tall. And it was, and when using the TV's regular regular feet the sound bar would intrude into the TV |
| 2:36.1 | because John I know you love them people do that and so so at some point a couple years back I |
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