LOS ANGELES – You can fly from Los Angeles to Seattle in less time than it takes to watch “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.” Elite runners can finish a marathon faster than the total time of “Django Unchained.” And you can roast and carve a turkey quicker than going to see “Les Miserables.”
Change frequency to fix Blu-ray streaming Many other household devices utilize the 2.4 frequency, including smartphones, cordless phones, wireless speakers and Bluetooth headsets. Most Internet-ready Blu-ray players can use the 5 GHz band, which is far less susceptible to interference because few devices right now are compatible with it. router manufacturers recommend using 5 GHz for …
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.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Administrators let offenders at one of Iowa’s most dangerous prison units watch violent and sexually explicit movies and TV shows for years, despite repeated complaints from a female officer who said it encouraged inmates to sexually harass her.
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 …
HBO locks up the studio’s movies well into the next decade. Anyone hoping Netflix might offer films from more of the top studios during the pay-TV window should probably lower expectations. [Read more]
IOWA PRISONS: Administrators let offenders at one of Iowa’s most dangerous prison units watch violent and sexually explicit movies and TV shows for years, despite repeated complaints from a female officer who said it encouraged inmates to sexually harass her.
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.”