The result of this technological advance: Video game revenues are approaching those of motion picture box offices.
All this buzz is also helping the picture at the box office.
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Besides meaning you have one less ugly component to deal with, getting rid of the cable box also usually means better picture quality and you don't have pay rental fees for your box any more (though we have faith that the cable companies will eventually find a way to charge seven bucks a month for CableCard rentals).
Is it so hard to picture this migration: Big-box to small-box, to no-box at all?
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Forty years on it still gives a good picture, albeit with a Freeview box tacked on.
If LSU were to lose by a field goal Monday and win no title, it would be like a movie winning Best Actor, Best Director and Best Picture but finishing second at the box office to the latest Harry Potter movie.
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In a small pottery studio in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, the steady hand of Peter Graves, 64, adds the finishing details to a delicately-painted picture of a ship inside an enamel box.
Apparently, the AV center is the mystery box on the shelf below the PDP in the picture above which will magically bundle the various signals from your tethered devices such as DVD, set-top box, etc. and then feed 'em up to the TV over 802.11a WiFi.
But very few people really liked the first Hobbit film, leaving the second picture in a position to actually slightly decrease in box office this time around.
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That means the film earned 4.8 times its budget at the box office which ranks it 4th among the nine Best Picture nominees.
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When my husband and I were furnishing the house, we were scrambling to pack (I still can picture the movers leaning against their truck, picking their fingernails with box cutters, while we rushed around trailing rolls of bubble wrap and hearing the ticking of the many-dollars-per-hour meter in our heads).
In movies, Amy Pascal , chairman of the Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, is trying to repair the studio's sagging reputation, with box-office successes like the Spiderman series and The Da Vinci Code.
The picture here does not do justice, as the bottle comes in an impressive sliding lid box, set in a cradle of gold ribbon.
Movies shown in 3-D accounted for 11% of the box office in 2009 up from 2% in 2008, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.
Though CBS ' (nyse: CBS - news - people ) The Late Show host is widely believed to have bombed during his one attempt to host the Oscars, the show, in which box office hit Forrest Gump beat out Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption for Best Picture, was the second-most-watched in the last 25 years.
It finally put out a less ambitious digital box in 1996 -- which mainly let cable operators squeeze in more channels with better picture quality.
One benefit of the two-year delay in O's release is that two of its stars, Julia Stiles and Josh Hartnett, virtual unknowns when the picture was shot, now enjoy much bigger Hollywood profiles, which should help the film at the box office.
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