Toshiba's Media Boxes focus on streaming first, Blu-rays second
Toshiba announced four new devices called “Media Boxes”, but are essentially Blu-ray players with streaming-media functionality.
January 7, 2013
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Toshiba announced four new devices called “Media Boxes”, but are essentially Blu-ray players with streaming-media functionality.
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IDG News Service – A new Blu-ray Disc promises to keep data fresh long after it might have decayed on other discs. The MDisc, developed by Utah-based Millenniata, will be available from June this year in a 25 gigabyte capacity and will join a long-lasting DVD already offered by the company.
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. A doctor getting a god complex is a well-worn genre trope, explored in movies as far apart as Stanley Kramer’s Not as a Stranger (1955) and the Alec Baldwin vehicle Malice (1995). With those movies, the story usually involves the docs overestimating their power to …
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The moment Jessica Chastain finished reading the script for “Zero Dark Thirty,” director Kathryn Bigelow’s scrupulously researched recreation of the CIA’s decade-long search for Osama bin Laden, the first movie she thought of was “All the President’s Men.”
NEW YORK (AP) — HBO on Sunday its deal with Universal Pictures to be the exclusive pay-TV provider of the studio’s movies for another decade, the companies said.
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DVD review: ‘Rashomon’ yes, it belongs in any serious movie collection, and its debut on Blu-ray – using a 4K restoration supervised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in collaboration with the Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation in Tokyo and Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation – is a cause for celebration.
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