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For anyone who has a Samsung Blu Ray player and wondered what the Ethernet port on the back was for, then there could be some good news. Sure it can be used for updating profiles and even downloading the odd ringtone every now and then, but the real purchase is so much better.

Samsung have signed an agreement with the online DVD rental firm Netflix and for owners of the BD P2500 and BD P2550 blu ray players they could soon have the ability to stream movies straight into their home TV’s.

Naturally the user is going to have to sign up to Netflix, which is a slight problem as it is not yet available in the UK, but we live in hope! Hopefully something can be done about this, or alternatively Samsung could strike a deal with another provider such as LoveFilm who are UK based and offer a similar service as Netflix.

Netflix offer free updates of up and coming films. This has to be downloaded but once it is active the user will get instant access to any film on the list. No doubt this technology will eventually find its way into a lot of Samsung’s products as they are released.

It is still a shame that a service like this is not available yet in the UK.

Source: Tech Radar

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When a fundamental law of nature is revealed, the best inventions arise.

Here, the author heard of a mysterious unexplained oscillation in silicon bipolar transistors, and upon investigating discovered that it related to the band-gap energy of silicon.

With the phenomenon fully explained, it became possible to design electronic circuits of exquisite simplicity, reliability and performance.

Unfortunately, the author suffers from an untreated Addison’s disease. It is one thing to have the knowledge of progress - quite another to implement progress when one is half dead through metabolic disturbance.

The industrial climate was also not conducive to success. The whole of British industry collapsed - and the German economy is currently (2003) in recession.

There is no point in keeping good ideas secret until one dies. If one cannot use it - SHARE IT. And hope, perhaps, that those who gain benefit from it will reward you in the future.

During the thirty years that this concept was kept secret, millions of radios, televisions and portable telephones were manufactured. In many cases, enormous savings could have been made on each item. The economic value of the concept can be reckoned in billions of dollars worldwide.

see http://wehner.org/electro/short

Charles Douglas Wehner

Charles Douglas Wehner was born in 1944.
He was a technical draughtsman in computer manufacture in 1962, and became a technical author (radars of Concorde and Harrier as well as nucleonics), design engineer and factory manager. Further experience was in measurement-and-control systems, photoelectrics and ultrasonics.

Charles Wehner was professionally active in Britain and Germany.

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There are some great New York Theater events going on in New
York City and on Broadway. Wicked is very popular this year and
is based on the story of “The Wizard Of Oz”, however it is based
on the witch’s of Oz and is considered the prequel of the
original huge hit.

Monty Python’s “Spamalot” is also receiving great reviews,
based on the legendary story of the knights of the roundtable
and the search for the holy grail. This theater event is
receiving acllaim for it musical score and chorus line, as well
for its wardrobe which is outrageous at times.

The long awaited “The Odd Couple” will also be returning to the
New York theater scene very soon. Based again on the original
story which created the telivision show , and early theater play
in the early 1900’s. It is sure to be a huge broadway hit and
attract many people into the theaters for a show.

Stay tuned for more theater events to come!

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