43: Brilliance Enhancer

• Accidental Fountain Screenplay: The Case of Liss by Joe Steel. (And Bionic.)
• Desktop 4K/Retina resolutions hitting bandwidth limitations of Thunderbolt 2 and DisplayPort 1.2, and the Sharp/Apple non-news.
• John's Squarespace-reseller idea already exists.
• Why aren't iOS App Store purchases available for purchasing and management in the App Store app on the Mac?
• John's new TV:
  • Technological progression from CRT to plasma and LCD, and the many hacky tricks used by modern TVs to overcome limitations and look better in stores. See also: Hypercritical 16: The Soap Opera Effect.
  • The new John Siracusa TV.
  • John's TV-calibration regimen.
• Why we're not talking about the iOS notification sync in OS X that never shipped.
• Merlin's response to our criticism discussion, and how Casey reacts to little worms.
• After-show Neutral: the new M3/M4 and John's dead pedal.

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