Brightness was set manually, and airplane mode was turned on, but beyond that everything was left at the default settings. The test was simple. A 4K video, Tears of Steel, was played on a brand new Toshiba Satellite Radius 12 running Windows 10. “My results disprove this from a battery-life aspect.” “Most people ‘in the know’ skip the default options for their video player of choice because it’s ‘better’ or more ‘efficient’,” wrote Mah Ung. Microsoft Movies & TV utterly destroyed the free competition in battery life in a series of tests run by PC World Executive Editor Gordon Mah Ung. You might think of VLC and Media Player Classic as the lightweight alternatives to Microsoft’s bloated default offering, but that thinking seems outdated. Watching 4K movies on your laptop, while unplugged? Microsoft Movies & TV, the default video player that comes with Windows 10, lasts over twice as long as the competition.
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