It will soon be possible to instantly stream movies and TV episodes from Netflix directly to living rooms via Samsung's BD-P2500 and BD-P2550 Blu-ray disc players.

Steve Jobs has called Blu-ray "a bag of hurt", so step forward OWC with a 4x external burner for Mac owners.

From November, two new limited editions of Pioneer's KURO plasma TVs will be available - the KRP-500ABG and the KRP-500AW.

Google and the Open Handset Alliance have released the Android platform source code to everyone, for free, under the new Android Open Source Project.

Microsoft has announced that today is Global Anti Piracy Day. So if you haven't sent out your Anti Pirate Day cards yet, you may be too late.

A Police crackdown on the sale of counterfeit CDs and DVDs in Hull led to 26 arrests in five months.

Researchers have managed to log keystrokes from afar by detecting the slight electromagnetic radiation emitted when a key is pressed, according to research.

Primera have announced its support for Linux printing on its Bravo II, BravoPro, Bravo XR and Bravo XRP Disc Publishers.

All over the world people are worried about the economy, and now some say that the recent downfall could kill the Blu-ray format.

A free music-label-slash-download-site has had its plug pulled by its own hosting service due to copyright infringement of its own songs.

The BBC and Sky are today trumpeting a new arrangement that will see the latter stuff links to iPlayer shows into its own web TV service.

According to the New York Post, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is considering getting into the digital-music business.

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is the latest studio to test day-and-date releases on DVD and video-on-demand.

As we recently reported, both Dell and Pioneer have unveiled plans to build burners that support the download-to-burn technology of Qflix. Now, too, have Lite-On.

Aleratec is offering the new 1:15 DVD/CD Tower Publisher SLS featuring high throughput rates.

Plextor has launched the latest update to its external DVD Rewriter family – the high-end Plextor PX-830UF.

All four of the major television networks joined with iTunes this morning to offer primetime programs in high definition.

The credit crunch, global financial turmoil, rising unemployment and rocketing household bills is good news for the home entertainment industry and cinemas across Britain.

Lite-On had originally planned to begin volume production of 6x Blu-ray Disc Combo drives about now but have decided to postpone till the start until November.

In explaining why his new computers didn't come with Blu-ray drives as some were expecting, Apple chief Steve Jobs described Blu-ray as a "bag of hurt".