When the movie theater fits in your hand
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The growing popularity of small-screen video devices is ushering in a new era of content to go with them.
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After more than a decade of talking about it, movie theaters and studios are finally rolling out digital projectors that show sharper, brighter images without cracks, pops or hisses.
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Easy-to-use players accommodate memory cards that increase storage capacity, play movies and music.
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It&#39;s a rare show in the  legitimate theater when the performance is not preceded by a  sepulchral voice reminding you to turn off your cell phone.
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Keep that copy of Shrek 2 an extra week. Heck, keep it forever: Blockbuster Inc. announced yesterday that the ubiquitous rental chain is letting customers hold onto movie and game
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For several years people have been talking about the idea of miniaturizing a projector so that it&#39;s small enough to fit inside a cell phone or digital camera. Now it&#39;s finally been done, and 3M is demonstrating a prototype of such a device at this year&#39;s International Consumer Electronics Show.The mobile projector is about a centimeter thick and about 4 centimeters tall by 3 centimeters wide -- small enough to fit inside portable devices like cell phones, PDAs, or a digital still camera, said Todd Rutherford, product development specialist with 3M&#39;s optical systems division.It uses an LED as the light source and can project a VGA resolution (640 pixels by 480 pixels) image through a lens that&#39;s about a centimeter in diameter.3M is demonstrating the projector at CES built into a small handheld device that runs video from flash memory. The image projected onto walls or other light surfaces was good enough and easy enough to see over a distance of about half a meter, although it suffered over greater distances due to the bright lights of the show floor.The demo attracted a lot of attention and a constant stream of show attendees, many of whom had badges identifying them as employees of mobile phone makers or network operators.3M is already working with companies interested in embedding the projector in devices, and the first products should be out in early 2008, said Rutherford. He wouldn&#39;t identify the companies or the applications but said that they are mobile consumer electronics products.
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Entertainment technology in hotels and on airplanes is finally catching up to what travelers are accustomed to at home.
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If you're one of those wireless users who like small handsets but detest small displays, you'll like this: a cellular device with a rollable display.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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If you've been to a concert in recent years, you've seen the outstretched arms bearing digital cameras and cell phones that rise above the crowd like periscopes.
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Stores are stocked with an abundance of featherweight gadgets. But some of these tiny gadgets raise a new question: how small is too small?
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Sleek new specs take playing games or watching movies the a whole new (possibly sickening) level. In Game|Life.
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EINDHOVEN, Netherlands  - A Dutch company has  squeezed a display the size of two business cards into a gadget  no bigger than other mobile phones -- by making a screen that  folds up when not in use.
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Crystal balls are so much cooler when the screen is wide.
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By Adrian McCoy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Jan. 28--Good news for couch potatoes: Netflix and Blockbuster are  battling to be at the forefront of movie rentals, offering services to keep up  with increasing requests for on-demand entertainment.
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Ballantyne of Omaha is a small player in film equipment and is considering how best to tackle the migration to digital movies.
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A few years ago, when MP3 players were establishing themselves as the hot cool thing, the next step seemed clear: What if you could take along not only music but movies, television programs