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Ultra-high DeVito

Las Vegas

Hollywood has always been a major player in the tech world as it churns out all the content that helps sell snazzy new devices.

That explains diminutive actor Danny DeVito’s presence here to pitch the new Blu-ray release of “Hoffa,” the 1992 film he directed that starred Jack Nicholson as the legendary union boss.

Electronics makers are pushing Hollywood to deliver even higher definition movies — a move to ultra-high definition.

DeVito also stopped by the Panasonic booth for a chat about the intersection of Hollywood and the electronics world. The studios control the content that tech giants want to stream to their tablets and Web-connected TV sets.

Behind the scenes at CES, companies like MagicRuby, a branch of old-school Technicolor, are cutting distribution deals with studios for more convenient access to movies through services like digital locker storage in the cloud. The studios have kept a tight rein on how their content can be accessed.

At the Panasonic talk, Chief Technology Officer Eisuke Tsuyuzaki and Hanno Basse, the CTO for 20th Century Fox, discussed a future of even closer cooperation between studios and electronics makers. (News Corp. owns Fox and The Post.)

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Panasonic is doing for tablets what Samsung’s Galaxy Note did for smartphones — supersizing.

Panasonic showed off an insanely large 20-inch tablet at a time when the trend is heading the other direction with Apple rolling out the 7.9-inch iPad Mini.

Panasonic’s new offering also delivers 4K ultra-high definition resolution — a first for a tablet.

The company did not release a price or sales date.

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A cracked screen could be a thing of the past.

Corning, the company behind the Gorilla Glass used in smartphones, is in the early stages of producing Willow Glass that bends like plastic.

Donnell Walton, the manager of Corning’s Worldwide Applications Engineering division, showed off a small sample yesterday.

The material, which is being developed for curved surfaces, is so flexible it comes off the assembly line in rolled reams.

The Corning, NY-based company, whose history dates to the lightbulb, is behind high-resolution displays in more than a billion products made by clients like Apple.

Gorilla Glass 3 is expected to make its product debut by next quarter.

Other firms like Atmel of San Jose, Calif., also are showing off the latest in flexible tech.