Redbox DVD Rentals to Cost More – Will It Impact Netflix? – Analyst Blog
Redbox DVD Rentals to Cost More – Will It Impact Netflix? – Analyst Blog
November 26, 2014
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Redbox DVD Rentals to Cost More – Will It Impact Netflix? – Analyst Blog
Blu-ray discs have proven themselves superior to DVDs as storage media in light of their high capacity, high definition, and higher transfer rate. Now researchers claim that Blu-ray discs have one more advantage over DVDs: they also have the ability to help markedly improve the efficiency of solar cells, when their etched information patterns are repurposed for use as light concentrators …
Thanksgiving weekend is a time for being with family, eating a ton of great food, watching your favorite TV shows and… spending a lot of money.
The “Mystery Science Theater 3000†guys take aim at horror movies, a jungle picture and Lassie in a new DVD set…
Brooks Hays CHICAGO, Nov. 25 (UPI) — The patterns etched into the bottom of Blu-ray discs are perfect for enhancing the energy absorption propertings of modern solar panels.
Yes, a Blu-ray copy of Police Story 3: Supercop was destroyed for the sake of science. It turns out that the nanostructure of Blu-ray disc makes them especially well-suited to soaking up light—exactly what you'd want with a solar panel
(c) 2014, The Washington Post. According to a new study in Nature Communications, the patterns etched onto Blu-ray disks could be harnessed in the engineering of solar panels.
Blu-ray discs could help make the solar cells used in solar panels more efficient, researchers say. Solar cells rely on materials that convert photons of light into electricity. Prior research had revealed that if microscopic structures that are only nanometers (billionths of a meter) high are placed on the surface of solar cells, they can scatter light in ways that increase the cells …
Another reason to be thankful this Thanksgiving: A pair of superb new digital restorations on Blu-ray of Frank Capra classics — “It Happened One Night’’ (1934) and “Mr. Smith Goes…
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