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Two 'player' stories February 2015 - April 2015

Apple continues to block older Flash Player versions on OS X for security

Chance Miller Apr 21 2015 - 3:50 pm PT

Apple today has confirmed that is updating its web plug-in blocking mechanism in OS X to disable all versions of Adobe Flash Player prior to the most recent, which is version 17.0.0.169. On older systems, all versions of Flash prior to 13.0.0.281 are blocked.

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Neil Young’s “HD Audio” PonoPlayer put up against iPhone, results fall flat

Seth Weintraub Feb 2 2015 - 6:30 am PT

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‘HD audio’ has been a buzzword for the last few years, as Apple and several record labels have been working on higher-resolution audio formats to repackage and resell older music. But the format took a body blow this weekend when former NY Times columnist David Pogue put musician Neil Young’s new $400 HD Audio PonoPlayer up against a regular old iPhone using a ‘blind trial,’ in which the HD PonoPlayer appears to have lost…

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