Why subtitles look different on every streaming app
Change the caption size on one service and the next one ignores it entirely. That is not an oversight — the two services are using different technologies that work in fundamentally different ways.
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TV & Streaming Apps
Apps are where streaming technology meets the viewer. This hub looks at them as software — what they support, where they are available, how they handle playback, downloads and accessibility.
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What your smart TV knows about what you watch
Most smart televisions identify what is on screen and report it. The technology has a name, a research literature and an off switch, though the switch is rarely where you would expect it.
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Cracked.com on the iPad: what the 2010 tablet publishing rush was really about
MobilizedTV interviewed Cracked.com's Oren Katzeff at this address in 2010, days after the site's iPad app appeared. This is a newly written look back at what that moment was actually about.
What Apps covers
The boundaries of this hub, so it stays a subject rather than a catch-all.
- Platform availability and feature parity across devices
- Playback behaviour: quality ceilings, downloads, profiles
- Accessibility features — captions, audio description, navigation
- Interface and policy changes that affect how people watch