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iPhone XS Max Do you watch films on your XS Max?
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I watch a couple movies with VLC and it was good. Notch is annoying at first but you'll learn to adjust.
I watch videos all the time on my phone. At work, even at home. I actually pass up my iPad Pro 10.5 most of the time unless I’m doing some sort of extended watching. But there’s times at work where it’s slow and I’m waiting on something, I watch live tv on my phone to kill time. No issue whatsoever. And it’s a lot nicer on the xs max compared to the x.
Is that due to the screen size or something else? I must admit, I watched few videos on my X when I had it.
The great feature of watching movies on a big iPhone is that you can watch them while lying down on your side and have the display angled correctly to your tilted head. It's very easy to hold (with a Loopy Case). The iPad is too big and heavy to use like this. For lying down & watching movies, a big iPhone (with a Loopy Case) is king.
That makes sense - it's hard to beat the iPad for movie watching. But for me, at least, it's too unwieldy to use when I'm in bed.
I watch Directv Now, Amazon Prime, as well as my iTunes library. Works well with the Max. Don’t see a need now to get a iPad.
I wouldn’t say just screen size. Although that’s the majority of it. The stereo speakers on this phone are amazing, at least as far as speakers on a phone goes.
Absolutely, I'm generally without the ability to carry around anything bigger than what I can stuff in my pockets and I have a lot of chance to consume media at will which really helps pass the time and keep my focus so my Note's and now Max have been super great at giving me the best affordable real estate.
Same. I watch films on a big screen. 49" - 73" at home. No interest in watching anything other than short youtube stuff on a phone.
Movies? God no. That's what my giant TV is for. Tiny screens are good for youtube or Twitch.
On my iPhone XS Max i only watch not more than 5 minutes. Because 16:9 is much smaller as the Max will have black bars on side in witch irr1tates me. Also most of the movies i have watch has subtitles! But i cant seem to read subtitles on XS max with fullscreen because it is zoomed! So it is back to being small again just as small as 8 plus at 5.5"
Most of the time i watch extended movies for 7 hour on iPad Mini 4 or iPad Pro 10.5" or macbook and i liked it 10 times than xs max.
I really, really, really, really, really, really like it because iPads and Macbook dont strain my eyes when watching or reading unlike on tiny iPhone XS Max witch is only good for texting and social media
I don’t generally watch full length feature films, but will watch shows up to one hour. I used to do the same on my 6s and the experience on the max is much more enjoyable.