Either way, the process gives you something to focus on besides just watching the grand kids or puttering around the house.

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From the sidelines of the soccer field to bird-watching on a riverboat, engage AF Tracking technology to lock focus on your fast-moving subjects and keep them in focus, even while they move in and out of the frame.

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But as wonderful as navigation apps are, they have been about as passive an experience as watching TV, with the key difference of directing most of your focus away from their screens.

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Mr. Hastings said in a blog post at the time that separating Qwikster would allow Netflix to better focus on providing movies and TV shows online, where consumers are increasingly watching videos.

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And focus they must, because as web video shifts to the living room, viewers watching programs or channels, is much better than clips.

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