Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending October 31, 2020

The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending October 31, 2020, are in. A new release standalone anime movie was the top selling title for the week. Find out what movie it was in our weekly DVD, Blu-ray and Ul…



The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending October 31, 2020, are in. A new release standalone anime movie was the top selling title for the week. Find out what movie it was in our weekly DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales stats and analysis feature.

Bruce Willis returns to space to kick some alien derriere in Breach trailer

The sci-fi action film looks like a hodgepodge of Alien, The X-Files, and Event Horizon

Bruce Willis battles an alien life form aboard an interstellar ark  en route to a New Earth in Breach.

An interstellar ark transporting the last humans on Earth to a new home inadvertently brings along a shape-shifting alien stowaway in Breach, a new sci-fi action film starring Bruce Willis and directed by John Suits. The trailer just dropped, and the film looks like a fairly generic mix of elements from Alien, The X-Files, and Event Horizon. But anything that lets Willis "yippee-ki-yay" his gun-toting way to saving humanity from aliens in space is okay by me.

Suits is best known for 2016's Pandemic, essentially a zombie horror thriller shot entirely from a first person point of view, like a video game. He also directed the recently released short Diehard is Back, a fun Willis-starring commercial for Diehard batteries that pays tongue-in-cheek homage to the franchise, including a few cameos that should delight fans. ("From fighting his way to Advance Auto Parts to racing against the clock to install his new DieHard Battery—McClane will stop at nothing, to start his car again.") So I'm hopeful that Suits can bring a fitting mix of suspense, action, and humor to Breach, and just let Willis be Willis.

Originally titled Anti-Life, the film's premise is that a devastating plague has wiped out much of Earth's population, and the survivors are being evacuated via an interstellar ark to "New Earth." Willis plays Clay Young, described as a hardened mechanic who is part of the crew selected to stay awake and maintain the ark for the six-month journey. But then he discovers a shapeshifting alien (or "a malevolent cosmic terror," per the early press materials) has also stowed away on the ark, and it seems to be intent on killing everyone on board.

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Lilbits: Internet at the speed of light

Delivering high-speed internet usually requires running cables across long distances. But that can get tricky when you’re trying to bring connectivity to a place where there isn’t already a lot of infrastructure for it… so recently w…

Delivering high-speed internet usually requires running cables across long distances. But that can get tricky when you’re trying to bring connectivity to a place where there isn’t already a lot of infrastructure for it… so recently we’ve seen solutions ranging from satellites to balloons. Now Google’s parent company Alphabet is partnering with internet service providers […]

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Lilbits: Internet at the speed of light

Delivering high-speed internet usually requires running cables across long distances. But that can get tricky when you’re trying to bring connectivity to a place where there isn’t already a lot of infrastructure for it… so recently w…

Delivering high-speed internet usually requires running cables across long distances. But that can get tricky when you’re trying to bring connectivity to a place where there isn’t already a lot of infrastructure for it… so recently we’ve seen solutions ranging from satellites to balloons. Now Google’s parent company Alphabet is partnering with internet service providers […]

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Google Photos is the latest “Unlimited” plan to impose hard limits

Photos stored at High Quality before June 2021 are grandfathered in.

Screenshot of user interface for Google Photos.

Enlarge / Google is no longer offering unlimited photo storage—except to Pixel users, that is. (credit: Google)

Today, Google Photos VP Shimrit Ben-Yair announced the end of Google Photos' unlimited photo storage policy. The plan already came with significant caveats—unlimited storage was for the tier Google deems "High Quality," which includes compressed media only, capped at 16 megapixels for photos and 1080p for videos. Uncompressed or higher-resolution photos and videos saved in original quality count against the 15GiB cap for the user's Google Drive account.

As of June 2021, High Quality photos and videos will also begin counting against a user's Google Drive storage capacity. That said, if you've already got a terabyte of High Quality photos and videos stored in Photos, don't panic—the policy change affects new photos and videos created or stored after June 2021 only. Media that's already saved to Google Photos is grandfathered in and will not be affected by the new policy change.

Original Quality—again, meaning either uncompressed or resolution over 16mp still / 1080p video—is also unaffected, since those files were already subject to the user's Google Drive quota. Any additional capacity purchased through Google One membership also applies to media storage—if you lease 100GiB of capacity at Google One's $2/month or $20/year plans, that capacity applies to your Google Photos data as well.

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