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iPhone 7 Series Said to Feature 60FPS 4K Video Recording Capability
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My iPhone 4 is barely surviving.
haha Darn it! You beat me. Are you going to get the 7? I love my 4S although the battery has seen better days.
Hi, one question about this setup:
I guess that you have optimised storage turned on on the iPhone, right?
So the DS Photo App only uploads optimised photos so it is not a real backup of the original sized data?
How did you do the automatic part? With a Geofence inside the application? Does this get triggered when on wifi only so it does not consume mobile data?
And what is the option in the app? I see a photo backup option but it only lets me select photos downloaded from my NAS not the camera roll for example.
Thanks for your help!
It was a wrong rumour.
iPhone 7 specs from apple.com still reports 4K video at 30fps.
- I guess that you have optimised storage turned on on the iPhone, right? Yes, for iCloud Photos to keep local storage use down.
- So the DS Photo App only uploads optimised photos so it is not a real backup of the original sized data? No, it does full res backups and includes all the original metadata (locations, camera info etc).
- How did you do the automatic part? With a Geofence inside the application? Yep with a GeoFence.
- Does this get triggered when on wifi only so it does not consume mobile data? There's an option within the app to use WiFi only, and you can choose to limit it to only photo backup.
- And what is the option in the app? I see a photo backup option but it only lets me select photos downloaded from my NAS not the camera roll for example. I set mine up years ago. But I think you select Photo Backup in the side menu. Click the arrow pointing up in the top right hand corner. Log in. And follow the steps. If you choose "Backup all photos" it will do your whole camera roll.
Hope you get it sorted. It's a great setup once it's up and running. No space worries on the handset, and piece of mind having both cloud and local NAS backups of precious photo and video memories.
I'm going for an iPhone 7 black, since my cuurent iPhone 4 is black.
Jet Black won't do any justice for as glossy black is prone to have a micro-scratches & fingerprint magnets.
It's going to be a huge upgrade for the both of us! Haha.
Bandwidth is an issue too.Chicken & egg. Makes no sense to have up to ALL of the content in the iTunes store at 4K forTV before there is a 4K
Hardware must lead. Hardware arrives and software catches up. OR, at best, hardware arrives and some software is made available the same day that capitalizes on the hardware advancement.
If you look through the iTunes store, not everything is available at 1080p either but that didn't stop Apple from rolling out a 1080p
Apple can't control this particular third party software (availability). But Apple has full control of the hardware they want to roll out. Launching hardware capable of "more" is, basically, what Apple does. This is no different. Hardware must come first. It actually makes no business sense the other way.
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There's about 50 bits of spin in support of sticking with 1080p vs. adding the 4K option... and about 50 of them were the exact same reasons posted again and again for sticking with 720p when some of us expressed desire for 1080p. Of course, all that "720p is good enough" sentiment seemed to evaporate as soon as Apple rolled out the TV "now with 1080p" even though internet bandwidth everywhere was not upgraded to handle those much larger file sizes either. It will be no different with a 4KTV.
Somehow people imagine- or spin- that a 4KTV would force everyone to only watch 4K content. It would not... just as a 1080p TV did not force the "720p is good enough crowd" to watch only 1080p. In fact, an 8KTV wouldn't force the "720p is good enough crowd" to watch, download, store or do anything different either. It's just better hardware capable of "more" for those that might want "more." Those completely content with "less" than it's maximum potential could keep enjoying exactly what they enjoy now. Those lacking bandwidth to stream 4K could keep downloading 1080p, 720p or SD... exactly as they do now. Those not able to see the difference wouldn't have to try- just keep watching whichever video option is subjectively ideal on their TV now. Those who do not yet own a 4K set would not have to throw out a perfectly good HD set as hardware capable of more would just feed their 1080p or 720p set a signal that displays correctly for what they have. Etc.
What it would do is let those wanting an Apple product attached to their new 4K TV be able to feed some 4K to that TV get what they want too. It would also fix the only broken link in an all-Apple chain of 4K content capture, editing, rendering and then "just works" flowing to their 4K TV. As is everything in that chain can be done with Apple hardware & software... except the flow from a 4K movie stored in iTunes to a 4K TV. This one link in that chain is still stuck at 1080p when everything else Apple offers has already moved on. Fix that and it affects no one happy with the "as is" at all... it simply lets another segment of consumers join our little party.
TV "now with 1080p" even though internet bandwidth everywhere was not upgraded to handle those much larger file sizes either. It will be no different with a 4KTV.Somehow people imagine- or spin- that a 4K
TV would force everyone to only watch 4K content. It would not... just as a 1080p TV did not force the "720p is good enough crowd" to watch only 1080p. In fact, an 8KTV wouldn't force the "720p is good enough crowd" to watch, download, store or do anything different either. It's just better hardware capable of "more" for those that might want "more." Those completely content with "less" than it's maximum potential could keep enjoying exactly what they enjoy now. Those lacking bandwidth to stream 4K could keep downloading 1080p, 720p or SD... exactly as they do now. Those not able to see the difference wouldn't have to try- just keep watching whichever video option is subjectively ideal on their TV now. Those who do not yet own a 4K set would not have to throw out a perfectly good HD set as hardware capable of more would just feed their 1080p or 720p set a signal that displays correctly for what they have. Etc.What it would do is let those wanting an Apple product attached to their new 4K TV be able to feed some 4K to that TV get what they want too. It would also fix the only broken link in an all-Apple chain of 4K content capture, editing, rendering and then "just works" flowing to their 4K TV. As is everything in that chain can be done with Apple hardware & software... except the flow from a 4K movie stored in iTunes to a 4K TV. This one link in that chain is still stuck at 1080p when everything else Apple offers has already moved on. Fix that and it affects no one happy with the "as is" at all... it simply lets another segment of consumers join our little party.
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Very well put.There's about 50 bits of spin in support of sticking with 1080p vs. adding the 4K option... and about 50 of them were the exact same reasons posted again and again for sticking with 720p when some of us expressed desire for 1080p. Of course, all that "720p is good enough" sentiment seemed to evaporate as soon as Apple rolled out the
Somehow people imagine- or spin- that a 4K
What it would do is let those wanting an Apple product attached to their new 4K TV be able to feed some 4K to that TV get what they want too. It would also fix the only broken link in an all-Apple chain of 4K content capture, editing, rendering and then "just works" flowing to their 4K TV. As is everything in that chain can be done with Apple hardware & software... except the flow from a 4K movie stored in iTunes to a 4K TV. This one link in that chain is still stuck at 1080p when everything else Apple offers has already moved on. Fix that and it affects no one happy with the "as is" at all... it simply lets another segment of consumers join our little party.
My iPhone SE can definitely record at 1080p at 120 fps with MoviePro (60 with Apple's Camera app.)
4K video is at 30 fps.
720p goes up to 240 fps.