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A longtime Apple TV user who has owned every generation of the device reviewed the newly released Apple TV 4K and found it lacking in several areas. The reviewer, who has purchased hundreds of films through Apple's Movies store, outlines specific missing features and recommends potential buyers wait before upgrading.
A Verge newsletter recounts how portable digital music began with the MPMan F10 in Asia in March 1998, followed months later by the Diamond Rio PMP300 in the West, which gained attention after the RIAA sued Diamond Multimedia over MP3 piracy concerns. Both devices shipped with just 32MB of storage, enough for about 12 songs, and featured clunky monochrome displays.
VideoLAN's free, open-source VLC media player has now been downloaded more than 7 billion times across all platforms, according to an update from president and lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf. The milestone comes roughly 18 months after VLC passed 6 billion downloads in January 2025. VideoLAN also confirmed it has ported VLC to Amazon's new Vega OS for TVs and continues developing broader platform and codec support.