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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Netflix sees half million Blu-ray subscribers

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    Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:24pm EDT
    A man stands beside a rack of Blu-ray disc movies inside a DVD rental shop in Taipei February 18, 2008. REUTERS/Nicky Loh

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - DVD rental company Netflix Inc said on Monday it expects about 500,000 of its 8.7 million subscribers will be Blu-ray subscribers in the current quarter.

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    Netflix this month began adding $1 to monthly membership fees to provide unlimited access to high-definition Blu-ray movies. Netflix said the additional charge, to reflect the higher cost of Blu-ray discs, will be added to billing statements on or after November 5 and only to members who have previously enabled Blu-ray shipping on their Netflix accounts.

    Netflix told analysts on a conference call it expected the number of Blu-ray subscribers to rise as sales of Blu-ray DVD players increase and prices of those items come down.

    "We're optimistic that prices of Blu-ray players are falling," said Netflix Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings on a conference call.

    (Reporting by Sue Zeidler; Editing by Andre Grenon)
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