Tesco has announced a move to embrace digital movies by partnering with Blinkbox and offering to hand them out to customers when they pay for one of a select list of Blu-Rays or DVDs. It’s part of what the supermarket hopes will “help start a digital revolution,” and may pave the way for a big shift in movie buying. Read more
The Wii U will use proprietary discs packing 25GB of data, almost exactly the same size as Blu-ray discs, but don’t expect it to play them or DVDs for that matter. Just like the Wii before it, the Wii U is shunning both formats entirely.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata explained the decision at a meeting of investors and analysts. He’s unapologetic about the ommission because, hell, you’ve already got a DVD player already haven’t you? Read on for his exact words…
News flash: we are approaching the day when rewritable media encroaches on the storage capacity of hard drives. In a press release this afternoon, Panasonic confirmed they’ll unveil a rewritable single-sided three-layer Blu-ray disc with a 100GB capacity on April 15th. As the world’s first rewritable 100GB Blu-ray disc, what’s next for consumer electronics giant?
The next in an ever increasing line of platforms and brands to get Lovefilm access is Samsung. Specifically, its line of Blu-ray players will be getting Lovefilm access via a downloadable widget app for the Samsung Internet@TV hub. All you’ll need to get access to Lovefilm on demand content is a Lovefilm subscription of £5.99 per month or more. The app is live, and users can download it from today.
Where do you want to see Lovefilm next? Click through to shout out in the comments!
Listen up, Star Wars fans, good news from CES. Darth Vader himself is marching in to CES 2011 with what StarWars.com is promising is “a most impressive announcement”. Given the tech spin of CES, we expect it to be something on the Star Wars Blu-Ray release or possibly Star Wars 3D coming to a cinema near you with the profits headed for George Lucas’ Deathstar-size wallet. Darth Vader’s news will be out later today and our CES 2011 crack squad will be there to bring it to you via hyperspace or…you know…this website.
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Just a day into December and we’ve already been jam-packed with more tech news than you can sink your teeth into. It’s that time again for what we like to call the US Update — breaking headlines and hearts across the globe with the latest and greatest in tech news from this side of the pond.
