Chaitanya Kanojia, Aereo's chief executive, said Aereo's smooth play is due in part to the company building its own transcoding system, and there's no buffering or caching of content.

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DivX Plus Streaming brings a cutting-edge feature set to streaming media that is typically characteristic of the Blu-ray Disc consumer experience such as multi-language subtitles and audio tracks, trick-play track for smooth fast forward and rewind, chapter points for quick scene navigation, and resume playback across devices.

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Alan Smith slid in on Manuel Almunia while Joey Barton cleaned out Gilberto as the Magpies harried and harassed their opponents to try to nullify Arsenal's smooth passing play.

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It's used in an effort to make the picture appear "smooth" -- something we saw with the Xperia Play as well -- but it leads to the unsatisfying outcome of killing fine detail and replacing it with a smeared appearance.

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With an emphasis on gifted ball-playing technicians such as Xabi Alonso, Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta and David Silva, even seasoned football-watchers were left open-jawed by the fluidity and smooth control of Spain's unique short-passing style of play, setting the standards that many are now attempting to imitate.

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