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Originally Posted by pwalker8
They actually did talk about Apple TV quite a bit, but it was in the context of fitness, home and music. After thinking about it over night, I think that Apple is pushing the interoperability of the Apple ecosystem. You can AirPlay from your iPhone to your homepods, Apple TV or Mac. You can have your Mac, macbook and iPad all open easily moving information from one to the other. That sort of thing. That's what they are showing. Now the developers have to add support for that to their apps.
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Yes indeed, and that is one of the best new features for 2021.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Once again, after digesting, one of the cooler things that I noticed was the ability to use your AirPods almost as hearing aids, I guess it's like those devices you see advertised on late night TV and obscure cable channels that allow people who are a bit hard of hearing to focus on conversations. It wasn't clear to me if this was just for the next generation AirPods, or it this will be available for all AirPods. I can actually use that. I have trouble following conversations in a noisy environment. It looked like they have similar technology that allows you to block external noises when you are on the phone as well.
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I missed that, but I zoned out on the AirPods stuff because I have only about 30% normal hearing in my right ear because of a childhood illness, so stereo headsets and earpieces don’t work for me. Therefore I just didn’t pay much attention while they were discussing AirPods. I paid $3600 for hearing aids back in 2008 but they really didn’t work that well. But the technology is so much better now that even the OTC kind of hearing aids are probably much better than the ones I bought 13 years ago. I’ll go back and listen to that part of the event to see what was said. I would consider buying AirPods if they can block out background noise. I too am totally lost in a crowd of people talking because all the noise goes into my good ear and overwhelms my ability to comprehend the individual words.
My Sony TV and soundbase both have built in sound modes for bringing out conversation better than say a movie sound mode does. Perhaps the AirPods has something like that built into them too. It would be nice to watch TV, especially British shows, without having to turn on CC so I don’t miss a few words here and there. Not being British, I’m not used to their accents, so I have a lot more trouble understanding all of what they say, but I have that issue with American accents too, but to a lesser degree.