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Apple Rumored to Begin Seeding iOS 10.3 With New 'Theatre' Mode on January 10
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Its very-likely a Reference to the DCI-P3 wide gamut color space (vs Display P3) ... and it probably means that those with an Apple mobile device that supports wide color capture & display (7, 7 Plus and 9.7" iPad Pro), will be able to throw a switch, to transition their device into a DCI-P3 mode, for at least the Display, and possibly for both (capture & display), whenever so desired ... DCI-P3 is intended for darker viewing environments, and is used at the Movies.
At a minimum, it would allow a Cinema-type viewing experience, with established DCI-P3 wide gamut color space content, of which there is plenty to chose from ... vs Display P3, for which a User would need to generate their own content, via their device's camera.
The fact that it gets leaked just-today is very interesting, to say the least !
At a minimum, it would allow a Cinema-type viewing experience, with established DCI-P3 wide gamut color space content, of which there is plenty to chose from ... vs Display P3, for which a User would need to generate their own content, via their device's camera.
The fact that it gets leaked just-today is very interesting, to say the least !
I said something similar at #21. Much more likely than the very literal (and silly, imo) theater mode being bandied about in this thread. Simply put your phone on silent/vibrate and stick it in a pocket or purse. No update to 10.3 required.
Dark mode on 7 jet black / matte black. Omg
This is the most frustrating aspect of Apple's visual interface. Seriously, how wasn't this addressed in, oh, I don't know, iOS 2? It shouldn't have to fall on the inividual apps to fix that. I literally never find that box being plopped into the center of my screen to be useful. It's ALWAYS irritating.
My guess is that it's a HomeKit related toggle to get a home theater ready for a movie. Automatically close the blinds, dim the lights, set up the theater equipment and Apple TV.
I've been dying for the them implement the way you control Infuse. Slide finger across the screen to Rewind or FF, slide finger up or down on the right side of the screen to adjust volume. Perfect.
This seems un-Apple like. People don't know what wide gamut anything is. It should switch whenever someone is watching content intended for that color space. You shouldn't need to press a button for it.
I'm hoping for dark mode, but popcorn makes no sense. Even as a theatre mode, popcorn doesn't make sense internationally. Is popcorn consumed at cinemas around the world universally? We're very corn-heavy in the U.S. so I genuinely don't know if it's common elsewhere.
But wouldn't this scenario require someone to have Homekit enabled blinds, lights, and theater equipment along with an ATV? This is a niche of a niche of a niche scenario. Similar to the niche scenario of the movie theater discussed earlier.
iPhones have a new DCI-P3 color gamut. Theater mode: Set display color to make movies/video on the phone look more like what you'd see in a theater. Seems a bit more likely don'tcha think?
This is what I think may have happened ... Apple captured 90% of the content for their relatively-new Romeo & Juliet TV commercial with a professional-grade DCI-P3 camera, and captured the other 10% of the data / scenes, from an iPhone 7 Plus, and then color-twisted each ... so, one going from DCI-P3 to sRGB, and the other going from Display P3 to sRGB ... and then somewhere along the line, someone at Apple said "Hey, for these scenarios, why can't we match our content to the (high-quality) DCI-P3 content and promote that as a high-end version to really showcase our stuff ???"
For this to work, the camera capture pipeline needs to be enhanced, so that it natively supports a new color space (DCI-P3) ... its extremely difficult to convert from Display P3 to DCI-P3 in real-time, except perhaps in the ISP.
Apple made the correct choice in going with Display P3 (vs DCI-P3) ... but NOT supporting both at the on-set was NOT a wise move, simply because existing pro-grade cameras support DCI-P3, NOT Display P3, as they very-likely discovered during the making of their R&J TV commercial.
Its probably NOT something they thought about initially ... this type of scenario.
This could enable Apple to craft / produce much higher-quality TV commercials, specifically for their wide color displays (with brand-spanking new DCI-P3 support).
Might be something that makes use of HomeKit enabled lights like Philips Hue, among other things, to lower the light level in a room when watching content via AirPlay or direct streaming from iTunes, on an AppleTV.
tvOS will probably have the same feature mentioned in it.
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In-law mode.
Work mode.
tvOS will probably have the same feature mentioned in it.
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In-law mode.
Work mode.
Yeah, now that I think about it more, your answer is much more likely along with a dark mode on iOS.
This. Half of the stuff in control center I don't use. I don't use airplay mirroring, airdrop, or night shift. I want them gone and the music controls back at least.
It's dark mode, period, some of you are really grasping here, the wide color screen of the iPhone 7 is always "on". The Apple TV, macOS, and the watch all have a dark mode or are always dark, the iPhone is now getting it too. Theatres are dark, imagine that!
So they're bringing back Front Row? Excellent!
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This was one of the features that I didn't understand that Apple implemented with such a large icon in the control center. I appreciate night mode, but why they made the icon twice the size of what was originally seems unnecessary. Likely that will change with more options in the control center.