Early Impressions of the Drama Box App DramaBox serves vertical soap operas in snack-sized episodes made for your phone, and it does that one thing with complete commitment. For anyone who entered "what is DramaBox" into a search bar, the whole pitch is that sentence. Shows in this format are framed at 9:16, episodes usually run one to two minutes, and a single series often runs from 20 to 100 episodes. If...
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The Puzzle: Two Names, One Suspect Searching for "short tv" in an app store turns up a crowd of lookalikes, a Chinese studio's press history and, somewhere in between, a hit app called ShortMax. The case this file tries to untangle is exactly that tangle. The working theory is simple: the ShortTV brand that a Chinese producer announced for the US, Canada and Australia and watch A Marriage Deal With The...