Of course, watching non-HD programming is not acceptable in full wide screen mode.

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In Safari, there's now a full-screen mode and you'll be able to share tabs from your desktop with your phone (dubbed iCloud Tabs).

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It's also why the default behavior in opening photos and videos is to use the new full-screen viewers in the start screen mode.

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