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I was watching Dune 2021 on Microsoft Teams streaming (virtual company Christmas party from Youtube Movies), and the auto-diction translated Arrakis to Iraqis.

Suddenly the whole story make sense to me.

Would that mean watching the movie on YouTube via teams? As in crappy youtube quality through teams? Awful.

I'm annoyed you basically have to pirate a movie or go through the faff of actually buying a Blu-ray to watch things in uber-HD properly.

I think they mean they rented/bought Dune to watch, via YouTube's movie platform[1]. The host of the Microsoft Teams video meeting then likely shared their view of the YouTube screen (I don't know how it works in MS Teams, but, for example, I know Jitsi allows a meeting participant to embed a YouTube video for all to watch+listen to. It's surprisingly good quality)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd2DrxUi4H8

That doesn't mean they're wrong. 2049 is a very good movie.

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