If all goes according to plan, these ads will begin playing automatically, even on your smartphone.

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While I was watching live or recorded shows on the iPad, I could tap anywhere else on the screen and the show that was playing automatically shrank and dropped down into the bottom right corner of the screen.

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The app will automatically start playing the list of available stories from that source.

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When a user enables the Tune Start feature and tunes to a favorite preset music channel, the current song will automatically start playing from the beginning.

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Unlike when I was playing my music on CDs, I now automatically have rich context to every song, every album, every artist.

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According to Las Vegas, Dayton ranks as the tournament's worst at-large team (those playing thanks to committee invitation as opposed to qualifying automatically through a conference championship).

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It has four new cable boxes capable of automatically recording shows, displaying high-definition video and playing DVDs.

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If picked up as a standard, it would let you automatically launch these streaming services on a mobile device, and make them start playing on compatible TVs without having to launch the app on the TV first.

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