At home and overseas, Barack Obama has just erased three years of rough spots from the hard disc of politics.

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In addition, the new GIGA one SONIC's LCD screen clearly displays the amount of hard drive disc space available as well as the status of every download.

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The new 4K Ultra HD Video Player is a hard-disc server that connects easily to Sony's 84-inch 4K LED TV (XBR-84X900) allowing consumers to view 4K resolution movies and short form 4K videos.

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Unless, of course, the user made a copy of the track and then stored that track somewhere else, such as on another hard drive or compact disc.

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There's something immediately striking about Nintendo's Wii U proprietary disc format that's hard to notice in photos -- it's got rounded edges, both outside and in.

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The 4420 will also offer "random erase technology" that lets you use a CD-RW disc just like a floppy or hard disk -- adding or deleting individual files at any time.

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And if the hard drive gets too full, you can save the shows to a DVD disc for watching later, or build up a collection of episodes from a full season.

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Now here's a real head-scratcher -- imagine that instead of having Netflix ship you a new movie on disc every few days, you had some other company sending you a new hard drive once or twice a week.

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