Magic Rays of Light

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TECHNOLOGY
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A weekly podcast exploring the world of Apple TV. Hosted by MacStories' Sigmund Judge and Devon Dundee. #mrol

2 DAYS AGO

tvOS 18.2 Preview and a Look Back at Where’s Wanda? and Midnight Family

Sigmund and Devon preview the new features coming in tvOS 18.2. Then, they recap the first German-language Apple Original series, Where’s Wanda?, and Spanish-language medical drama series Midnight Family. Submit your question for episode 150 to magic@macstories.net or on socials using #Magic150. Recaps Where’s Wanda? Midnight Family Apple TV News ‎Simply Piano ‎Story: Spatial Storytelling ‎NowPlaying Apple Music Replay Super League: The War for Football Trailer Talk The Secret Lives of Animals Apple Original News Severance: 1 Blu-Ray (UK) Severance: Season 1 Blu-Ray (U.S.) See Complete Series Blu-Ray (UK) Surface — Season 1 Recap First Look at Surface Season Two Releases Fly Me to the Moon MLS Cup ‎Talking Tom Blast Park ‎Boggle: Arcade Edition ‎PAC-MAN 256+ ‎Hot Wheels™: Race Off+ ‎Barbie Color Creations+ ‎Little Cities: Diorama ‎FINAL FANTASY IV (3D REMAKE)+ ‎FF IV: THE AFTER YEARS+ Extras Pachinko — Coming Together Through Food Blitz — “Winter Coat” Performed by Saoirse Ronan and Nicholas Britell The Cast of Fly Me to the Moon Taste Test Space Food A Conversation with Dan Taberski, Creator of Apple Podcasts Show of the Year Hysterical TV App Highlights Exhibiting Forgiveness Juror #2 Light Shop Good One The Sticky The Great Christmas Light Fight Secret Level Heretic Sugarcane Up Next West Side Story Wallace & Gromit Wallace and Gromit Video Shot on iPhone and Projected onto Battersea Power Station Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky

1h 30m
NOV 27

Blitz, Bread & Roses, and RAYE’s Immersive Concert

Sigmund and Devon discuss Steve McQueen’s Blitz, new Apple Original documentary Bread & Roses, and the first episode of Concert for One featuring an immersive performance by RAYE. Submit your question for episode 150 to magic@macstories.net. Highlights Blitz Bread & Roses Concert For One: RAYE Apple TV News Black Anodized Mac mini New Plex Design Preview Apple Announces 45 App Store Awards Finalists for 2024 Trailer Talk Wonder Pets: In the City Apple Original News First Look at Dope Thief First Look at Your Friends and Neighbors Extras Stories from World War II Blitz Survivors in London | Blitz Bad Sisters (Season 2 Original Series Soundtrack) Apple Music’s Best of 2024 featuring Artist of the Year Billie Eilish Kendrick Lamar – GNX TV App Highlights Dear Santa Conclave Memoir of a Snail Robot Dreams Nutcrackers Senna Last Summer Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Black Friday Deals The MacStories Holiday Gift Guide for the Apple Nerd in Your Life Nanoleaf Essentials Smart LED Color-Changing Light Bulb Nanoleaf Essentials Smart LED Color-Changing Light Bulb (Four-Pack) CanaKit Raspberry Pi 5 Starter Kit PRO Up Next Wicked A Man on the Inside Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky

1h 36m
NOV 21

Back to the Silo, an Immersive Ride with The Weeknd, and a Look Back at Disclaimer

Sigmund and Devon highlight the return of Silo, dive in to The Weeknd’s immersive music video for Open Hearts, and share their thoughts on Disclaimer following its seven-episode run. Submit your question for episode 150 to magic@macstories.net. Pre-Roll Snoopy Screensavers Highlights Silo The Weeknd: Open Hearts Apple TV News ‎Final Cut Pro ‎Final Cut Pro for iPad ‎Final Cut Camera DaVinci Resolve 19.1 ‎Kino ‎Quanta Three Months of Apple Entertainment Free (U.S. Only) Trailer Talk The Studio Apple Original News First Look at Mythic Quest Season Four First Look at Side Quest First Look at Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 Releases Blitz Bread & Roses Sago Mini Friends A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Concert For One RAYE: Concert for One (Live) Extras Silo — Season 1 Catch Up Saoirse Ronan Reads Real Letters from World War II Blitz Survivors | Blitz Severance — Season 1 Recap Bad Sisters — Outsider’s Intro to Season 1 with Fiona Shaw as Angelica Collins DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter VII: Cate Blanchett, Alfonso Cuarón, and the Cast on Biases Recap Disclaimer TV App Highlights Goodrich Magpie Rumours Saturday Night Your Monster Emilia Pérez Hot Frosty Thelma Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead Smile 2 Alien: Romulus Interior Chinatown Cruel Intentions The Sex Lives of College Girls A Man on the Inside JOY - The Birth of IVF The Piano Lesson Spellbound Up Next American Horror Stories Based On A True Story Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky

1h 43m
NOV 13

Bad Sisters Return

Devon and Jonathan highlight the sophomore season premiere of Bad Sisters and discuss the power of TV-tracking with Trakt. Guest Co-Host: Jonathan Reed Mastodon Threads Highlight Bad Sisters Trakt Going Blindly Into Python Scripts to Move TV Time Tracking to Sequel ‎Trakt for Apple TV Apple TV News ‎Channel 4 for visionOS Apple Music: 100 Best Albums Book Trailers The Weeknd — Open Hearts Sago Mini Friends — Season 3 Releases The Weeknd: Open Hearts Silo Extras Bad Sisters — Season 2 An Inside Look DISCLAIMER* — Behind Finneas O’Connell’s Musical Score Debut Silo — Season 1 Recap Silo — Judicial Catch Up Silo — Juliette Lives Catch Up TV App Highlights Deadpool & Wolverine Twisters Dune: Prophecy Up Next English Teacher Maid Anora Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, or Threads Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon or Threads Join Club MacStories. Subscribe to Apple TV+. Subscribe to MLS Season Pass.

1 hr
NOV 6

Aspect Ratios and M4 Macs

Sigmund and Devon dive into 21:9 support and the other aspect ratio options in the tvOS 18.2 beta, grade their M4 Mac predictions, and share relaxing Up Next picks. Submit your question for episode 150 to magic@macstories.net. M4 Mac Announcements Apple Announces New iMac with the M4 Chip, a Nano-Texture Option, and USB-C Accessories Apple Releases Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, and Mouse with USB-C The More Mini Mac mini Apple Reveals New M4 MacBook Pros Apple TV News Belkin Head Strap for Apple Vision Pro RF-S7.8mm F4 STM DUAL ‎Proton VPN for Apple TV Releases ‎Wheel of Fortune Daily ‎Drive Ahead! Carcade ‎Arkanoid vs Space Invaders+ ‎Texas Hold’em Poker: Pokerist+ Extras Shrinking — Brett Goldstein on His Challenging Role in Season 2 DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter V: Cate Blanchett and Hoyeon on the Downfall of Catherine DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter VI: Cate Blanchett and Alfonso Cuarón on Trauma and Truth Silo — Season 2 Official Sneak Peek TV App Highlights In the Summers My Old Ass The Day of the Jackal Look Into My Eyes Megalopolis Up Next The Office Game Changer Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, or Threads Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon or Threads Join Club MacStories. Subscribe to Apple TV+. Subscribe to MLS Season Pass.

1h 16m
OCT 30

Apple TV+ at Five, You Would Do It Too, and Before

Sigmund and Devon discuss the first five years of Apple TV+ and where the service stands today. Plus, they highlight new Apple Original series You Would Do It Too and Before. Apple TV+ at 5 March Event 2019 | Apple Apple TV News ‎Blackmagic Camera 2.1 ‎Controller for HomeKit ‎Vimeo for Apple Vision Pro Currents: Teaser Chick-fil-A’s Legends of Evergreen Hills Trailer How Apple developed the world’s first end-to-end hearing health experience What It’s Like to Hear Better with AirPods Pro 2 Trailer Talk Severance Season 2 Teaser Apple Original News First Look at Prime Target Highlights You Would Do It Too Before Releases Before: An Inside Look DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter IV: Cate Blanchett and Sacha Baron Cohen on Marital Rows Blitz: An Inside Look Steve McQueen interviewed by Danny Leigh | BFI London Film Festival Screen Talk 2024 TV App Highlights Joker: Folie à Deux Treasure Wizards Beyond Waverly Place Martha Piece by Piece Despicable Me 4 The Substance Janet Planet Doc of Chucky Music by John Williams Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story A Different Man The Outrun Up Next And Then There Was Shawn Trick ’r Treat Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, or Threads Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon or Threads Join Club MacStories. Subscribe to Apple TV+. Subscribe to MLS Season Pass.

1h 40m
OCT 23

M4 Mac Predictions and Pachinko

Sigmund and Devon predict Apple’s M4 Mac announcements and recap the second season of Pachinko. Pre-Roll‎ Infuse 8 CineUltra Apple Vision Pro “Get Ready” Ad Tailscale MacStories Fall Membership Drive Apple TV News Sonos Arc Ultra and Sub 4 ‎NBA App Apple Projector Patent Trailer Talk You Would Do It Too (Tú También Lo Harías) Bad Sisters Season 2 Bread & Roses Apple Original News Spotlight: Bad Sisters Returns on Apple TV+ We Are Parable x Apple TV+: BLITZ Free Nationwide Previews Releases Before MLS Awards Extrasensory Apple Fitness+: ⁨Treadmill with Scott featuring Apple Music Radio Host Jayde Donovan⁩ Apple Fitness+ Artist Spotlight: ‎Kygo The Cast of Shrinking Give Life Advice Shrinking: Jessica Williams, Christa Miller & Lukita Maxwell Discuss Therapy and More Silo: Rebecca Ferguson Breaks Down Fan Theories | Theoretically DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter I: Cate Blanchett on Confronting the Past DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter II: Cate Blanchett on Disliking Her Character DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter III: Cate Blanchett and Lesley Manville on Losing a Son Recap Pachinko TV App Highlights Transformers One What We Do in the Shadows Somebody Somewhere Up Next Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour World Series Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, or Threads Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon or Threads Join Club MacStories. Subscribe to Apple TV+. Subscribe to MLS Season Pass.

1h 21m
OCT 17

Shrinking Returns, Immersive Basketball, Bad Monkey, and Slow Horses

Sigmund and Devon highlight Shrinking season two and the debut of NBA All-Star Weekend in Immersive Video. Then they recap Bad Monkey and Slow Horses season four. Highlights Shrinking 2024 NBA All-Star Weekend Apple TV News One For All Apple TV Remote Apple Announces a Minor Update to the iPad mini Beats Pill x Kim Kardashian Tablo ‎Trakt ‎Unwatched: RSS Video Player Trailer Talk Silo Season 2 Apple Original News First Look at The Gorge Extras Steve McQueen: Into The Breach With The Blitz Director | Empire Slow Horses: Who Said That? Slow Horses: S1E1 “Failure’s Contagious” on YouTube Recaps Bad Monkey Slow Horses TV App Highlights Alien: Romulus The Wild Robot Brothers Lee Woman of the Hour Up Next Hysteria! Louder: The Soundtrack of Change Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, or Threads Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon or Threads Join Club MacStories. Subscribe to Apple TV+. Subscribe to MLS Season Pass.

1h 43m

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Feb 23

Tedtthebear

Insightful. Looking to listen to these guys every week
Wonderful

02/27/2023

Shawn Kilgore

This is awesome. I love all the insight and reviews. They know their stuff and it’s a really fun listen.
Bad

Feb 9

adammgaines

Sounds like they are just reading Apple press releases, not much actual conversations. And segues are so cringe.
Good Show

10/23/2023

Carmen San Diego Zoo

Comprehensive, smart coverage of Apple TV and other home hardware and Apple TV+ originals. One note: Please stop the cringey segues from segment to segment!