Usually when movies win Oscars, it gives them a little boost at the box office, but the folks behind the recent Best Documentary winner decided that it was less important to make money than to allow as many people as possible to see Citizenfour , so they made it available to stream, totally free.
This week we get a mix of indie movies and mainstream movies, movies in English and movies in foreign languages, movies about heroes and movies about ordinary people. Quite often, all of these people are misfits or outcasts of some kind, never quite sure of how they fit in. Or, in the case of one creepy chiller, the characters rudely discover that they don’t fit in quite as well as they thought …
The Oscars will be announced this weekend, and so theaters are filling up with the typical “January and February†throwaway stuff ( 50 Shades of Grey being the exception only because it was tied to Valentine’s Day). Movie-streaming services, on the other hand, are highlighting an interesting mix of heavy and light.
Movies a distraction for remote plunder British hacker Stephen Tomkinson has found two Blu-Ray-borne attacks.…
And you thought normal DVDs were posh. How little you know It’s been a long time coming, but then it will be a long time staying
Tired of constantly switching between iTunes, Windows Media Player, VLC, and other programs for different media tasks?
If you thought Netflix and iTunes would make optical discs a thing of the past, think again. Facebook has built a storage system from 10,000 Blu-ray discs that holds a petabyte of data and is highly energy-efficient, the company said Tuesday.
[ This is a sponsored article written by IDG Creative Lab, a partner of Macworld, and not by Macworld’s editorial staff. ] Out of the box, your Mac can do almost anything, but playing Blu-ray movies isn’t one of them. Not only do Macs not ship with Blu-ray playback software built in, but Apple still doesn’t make a drive capable of reading Blu-ray discs.
Two of the leading names in DVD and Blu-ray technology announced a joint effort to develop a next-generation standard for optical discs. Sony and Panasonic will collaborate on a new standard, and plan to produce new super discs that can hold up to 300GB of data on a single disc by 2015
The PowerDVD Ultra series have been the most powerful, feature-laden DVD, Blu – ray , and media players available at retail. On the other hand, each version has also been somewhat slow to launch and sluggish to respond.