by Adeptus CEO | May 7, 2014 | Apple, Cord Cuttings, Home Audio and Video, Theater, Video
If you’ve read my past post’s you’ll know I am an avid cord cutter and have been a Netflix aficionado for a few years now. I am also a big Apple fan and love my AppleTV and combined these two bring together much happiness for me. Recently Apple TV added HBOGO to their line up of available “Channels” and I jumped in head first, however HBO has been missing some points that I feel a well established company entering a well established market with well established technology should not be experiencing. The trouble first presented itself with the season finale of True Detective and the complete collapse of HBOGO which plenty has been said about. However I was recently on vacation in Key West and of course my wife and I had to keep up with Game of Thrones so I rigged our really small Condo TV up to my MacBook Pro and patched the audio into the Sony HTIB (home theater in a box) system and sat on the couch and watched Season 4 Episode 4 , Oathkeeper. The stream was good, which with my speed test pegging out at 100mbps I should hope so. It was so much better than what we experience at home I began to get agitated. Why? Why was this so much better? I got back to the house and decided to look into our video stream quality and our actual speed numbers. Our internet is a mediocre 30mbps/5mbps Comcast package which if you do a 2wire sustained speed test turns a 2.5mbps constant stream speed which by standard basic math equates to...
by Adeptus CEO | Apr 16, 2014 | Apple, Audio
Carplay One of the newest features to be added to iOS is possibly the first time the Auto Audio industry has been addressed as a whole with direct effect by an outside company. Auto manufactures are including it in their new cars and aftermarket head unit manufacturers (Pioneer, Alpine) are already talking about firmware updates and new models. In the many years that I’ve been involved , professionally or casually, with car audio systems never has any single company expressed such command and control over it as a whole. Carplay was announced and I was ecstatic , slightly upset that it wouldn’t be available until the next years models but I could wait. Not more than a month from finding out about Carplay and already 2 Head unit manufactures are jumping on board. Pioneer is even offering it as a firmware update to existing 2014 head units. It looks like the heavy hitters are on board its only a matter of time until the other manufacturers jump on. It’s remarkable that a mobile graphic user interface is hijacking an entire industry with such deftness but then what would you expect from one of the most respected companies in the electronics industry. I for one am super stoked to get a new Carplay head unit and can’t wait to write a review of its obvious awesomeness – apple rave over. -Phil...
