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• Prisons scramble to make digital TV switch
Federal inmates are allowed limited viewing in common rooms with some restrictions — for instance, they can't watch R-rated movies. In Pennsylvania, inmates received notices telling them they'd have to pay for converter boxes for the TVs they are ...
• Comcast appeals FCC Web-blocking decision
... that beginning Oct. 1, it would institute a broadband usage cap of 250 gigabytes per month for all residential customers. Comcast says to exceed that limit a customer would have to send 50 million e-mails or download 125 standard-definition movies.
• Peanuts’ animator Bill Melendez dies at 91
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Bill Melendez, the animator who gave life to Snoopy, Charlie Brown and other “Peanuts” characters in scores of movies and TV specials, has died. He was 91. Melendez died Tuesday at St. John’s Hospital, according to ...
• Black holes for kids
The challenge of getting kids interested in science is particularly acute nowadays, when so many kids get their thrills from movies and video games rather than chemistry sets and electronics kits.
• Big stars, big films in Toronto Festival lineup
TORONTO - Sundance is about new talent and small, personal films. Cannes is about highbrow cinema and celebrity-watching. The Toronto International Film Festival is about movies, from splashy studio releases and potential Oscar contenders to obscure ...