Sony and Netflix recently announced that Netflix’s streaming Watch Instantly service would be coming to the PS3. The service is now here as Netflix is sending out discs to those interested in accessing the company’s instant streaming service. The service can be accessed for free on the PS3 with the Netflix disc and plan.

With the economic recession in full swing, the CE market sector has been suffering. However, it seems like Blu-ray players are selling quite well. According to an industry analyst, this holiday season may mark the first time consumers will see $50 Blu-ray players, which is a substantial milestone.

The Zune business has been a sinking ship for Microsoft. With revenue being dramatically down and sales slipping, it seemed like the company was about to call it quits on the MP3 business. However, despite reported layoffs and revenue drops Microsoft believes the Zune HD will turn everything around.

If you were the type of person who gets overly involved in format wars, you might see Toshiba releasing a Blu-ray player as a humiliating climbdown. But not doing so would have been a foolish move.

A market research firm claims there’s no prospect of Blu-ray drives becoming dominant on the PC in the foreseeable future. The firm claims that even by 2013, just one in six new machines will include a drive.

The Blu-ray adoption rate has been climbing quickly. However, the price of the medium won’t be dropping as fast. The new HD format has grown tremendously over the past year and it is clear that Blu-ray is the new format, but the question remains if it will ever cost the same as the DVD.

The next generation of Zune portable media device gets its HD processing punch from the Nvidia Tegra chip with graphics processing built in. Could high-definition video be the move that leapfrogs the Zune past the iPod?

With the recession in full swing many analysts predicted that the Blu-ray format would take a huge hit. However, the latest numbers seem to indicate otherwise. The theory that the entertainment industry is immune to the recession might be holding true for the Blu-ray format, at least judging from the substantial growth just this year.

Wikipedia is getting ready to roll out their long-awaited video component, but their selection of Ogg Theora as a format bucks the current trend of using H.264 as a video standard.

It looks like you can add some more rumors to what is going on with the Zune brand at Microsoft, and while they sound promising, will any one actually care?

Blu-ray may have won the next-generation DVD format wars, but it’s only barely in more U.S. homes than HD-DVD and that’s thanks to the PS3. To make things worse for the DVD-player industry, three-quarters of people without Blu-ray say there’s little chance they’ll get a player any time soon.

The U.S. House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to limit the use of x-ray devices at airports that peeked under the clothing of travelers looking for the tools of terrorism.

As if buying all new high definition equipment wasn’t already confusing enough, the people behind HDMI seem determined to make you pull your hair out.

The Blu-ray format’s adoption rate has been on the climb for the past two years after its battle with HD-DVD. The format has been quickly picking ups steam matching perditions that sales would double within this year. It also seems like the format is eating away at DVD sales as revenue has dropped while Blu-ray has exploded.

News around the Blu-ray format has been relatively low after the epic battle between HD-DVD and Blu-ray. Many consumers may be wondering how the Blu-ray format is fairing in the market today. Early reports indicate that the format is well on its way to taking over the DVD format with sales continuing to climb.

The price of Blu-ray Disc movies and television box sets are dropping rapidly, and set to drop even further over the next four years. But with the economy in the state it is, and technology shifting as fast as it is, will it be enough to save the format from the proverbial scrapheap?

Nvidia has identified both the netbook computer and Windows 7 running on netbooks as key elements in a major corporate initiative for 2009.