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Start streaming early this weekend; you have one less hour to watch these great films

March 9th, 2015 No comments

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 …

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Start streaming early this weekend; you have one less hour to watch these great films

Bad movie: Hackers can raid networks with burnt Blu-Rays

March 2nd, 2015 No comments

Movies a distraction for remote plunder British hacker Stephen Tomkinson has found two Blu-Ray-borne attacks.…

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How a Blu-ray disc could install malware on your computer

March 2nd, 2015 No comments

A pair of vulnerabilities found in hardware and software for playing Blu-ray discs might come in handy for secret snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency.

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Everything you need to know about ripping DVDs with subtitles

February 16th, 2015 No comments

If you like watching foreign movies, you may find that, when seeking out new films, you can only get the movie you want in a version without subtitles. This is great if you’re bi- or multi-lingual, but if not, you really need to know what the actors are saying. In this article, I’m going to look at subtitles: how you can play them in movies that already contain them, how you can add them to …

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This optical disc will keep your gumble safe for 2,000 YEARS

February 9th, 2015 No comments

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

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This optical disc will keep your gumble safe for 2,000 YEARS

Facebook's Oculus forms its own VR film studio

January 26th, 2015 No comments

Oculus Story Studio will develop movies for virtual-reality devices, like the Oculus Rift. It's kicking off with an animated short premiering Monday at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Where to find the best streaming holiday music and movies

December 23rd, 2014 No comments

The holidays come with trappings and tradition; with family, flavors, and favored evergreens among them. Adding to the atmosphere is holiday entertainment—the sentimental songs and movies entirely inappropriate in mid-March that are the perfect December accompaniment. Given that this media has such a limited shelf life, most of us don’t bother to acquire it.

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Where to find the best streaming holiday music and movies

10 must-have Chromecast apps for streaming digital movies, video, and music

December 22nd, 2014 No comments

Google's Chromecast is the perfect gadget to have if you’re looking for the simplest way to stream movies, TV shows, YouTube (and other web videos), and music from your mobile device to a TV. Just plug the Chromecast into one of your TV's HDMI inputs, download the official app, and start streaming.

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10 must-have Chromecast apps for streaming digital movies, video, and music

Unreleased Sony movies appear on filesharing sites after devastating hack

December 1st, 2014 No comments

Sony Pictures Entertainment is making progress in removing new films stolen in a cyberattack from file-sharing websites. The movies include the Brad Pitt war film “Fury,” released in the U.S.

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Unreleased Sony movies appear on filesharing sites after devastating hack

Wanna keep your data for 1,000 YEARS? No? Hard luck, HDS wants you to anyway

September 17th, 2014 No comments

Combine Blu-ray and M-DISC and you get this monster HDS' federal subsidiary says it has a Blu-ray optical storage platform for long term data preservation, with 1,000-year M-DISCs in prospect.…

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Wanna keep your data for 1,000 YEARS? No? Hard luck, HDS wants you to anyway