Full HD 3D Home Theater experience project.

Updated list of 3D capable TV's glasses and tech.

Hardware changes across all brands - Some Sales stats.

Quick looks inside arstechnica articles on the blu-ray industry.

Industry watching site with reviews

Susanne Ault's Blu-ray Videobusiness blog - daily cutting edge info on Blu-ray biz.

Blu-ray News and Marketing: AACS, BD+, Managed Copy, DRM latest news from FormatWars.

From High Def Disc News.

Video reporting on Blu-ray - Scott Hettrick reports.

It's hard to top this site's comprehensive coverage and charts which compares DVD vs. Blu-ray sales in US, UK and Japan. Blu-ray is gaining fast.

Growth and revenue, news, graphs, studio releases, pre-orders, competing encoding formats piechart, single layer vs. dual layer.

Independent view of the market.

Online shop showing typical discounts and sell-through pricing.

Videobusiness latest update for this month's blu-ray sales ranking. Origin of data from Rentrak.

Indies price Blu-ray close to standard DVD 4/13/09

Internet streams of TV Shows, Movies and Clips from More Than 50 Providers including FOX, NBC Universal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. and Sony Pictures Television New Licensing Deals with the Warner Bros. Television Group, Lionsgate, NBA, NHL. Streaming service through Akamai Technologies.

Purchase select episodes of your favorite TV shows in high definition for just $3. Or get the whole season in HD with a Season Pass. And when you buy HD, iTunes doubles your viewing pleasure: You also get an iPod-ready version with a file size and resolution that's ideal for smaller screens.

Rentals from: 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, MGM, Miramax, New Line Cinema, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Universal, Walt Disney, Warner Brothers.

Standard-definition movie rentals are $3 for library titles and $4 for new releases. And for just a dollar more, you can rent HD movies directly from your widescreen TV via Apple TV, (see Hardware that records section below.)

Enjoy films from around the world online cinema with thousands of movies to download, own, or watch free instantly online. Rentals average $4.

Rent downloads: $4 each - You're allowed to store a rental for up to 30 days after checkout. Once you start playback, you can watch it as many times as you want during a 24-hour viewing period. Once that 24 hour period is over, the title is no longer accessible. WIndows Media DRM control.

Buy Downloads from $10 - G and PG's primarily older than 1 year at $10 purchase. Top downloads average $15.

Lionsgates progressive Digital Downloads for Windows Media DRM for Windows XP or Vista. About $10 each. Purchased titles may be played an unlimited number of times. Once downloaded, the user owns the file. Files Sizes up to 1.6 GB.

CBS launches a revamped site that will jostle with YouTube and Hulu with added content from partners including Sony, Endemol, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor and PBS, to TV.com, the site it acquired in the $1.8bn takeover last year of CNET Networks, the technology web site operator. The partners will supplement programming from CBS and Showtime, its pay-TV arm, which broadcasts shows including Dexter, Californication and The Tudors

Amazon's online movie shop - Independent Film listings - $2 to $4 rental and usually about $10 to buy.

Crackle, Inc., a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company, is a multi-platform next-generation video entertainment network that distributes digital content including original short form series and full-length traditional programming from Sony Pictures’ vast library of television series and feature films. Crackle Show Guide.

Mix of Indie, Classic and Foreign films. Each content owner can create their own site, set up download fees and profit share. More of a DIY site. Producer's fees. They get approx. 10%. Typical feature rates are $1 watch once, $2.50 rent for a week, $10 to own.

Australian company, based in Melbourne, Vividas provides unique technology to stream high quality live video over corporate networks. Vividas playback is hardware accelerated, meaning that full screen video is sharp and plays at full frame rate. Indie films selling through vivfilms.vividas.com. Price to watch are $5 to $10 and include about 25 titles, as of February 2009.

Social network site. Video ethusiasts and professionals upload and share. Many high-end HD shorts up to 1280x720. Red 4K produced videos - Indie Films.

Rent a movie and you have 30 days to start watching it. Hit Play, and you have 24 hours to finish it — or play it as many times as you want. Rentals disappear when they expire, so they won't take up space on your hard drive. 160 GB Apple TV Hardware costs $329.

Purchase one out of five hardware streaming top-set boxes, Roku, LG, Samsung, Tivo and XBox. The LG and Samsung boxes are blu-ray players, as well. Plans start at $9/month to instantly watch 1 movie at a time - no monthly limits; download, watch, erase, download.

Hardware boxes are $149 to $500 for the 1 Terabyte sized harddrive. Movie rental $4 and download to own $20. Online accounts, hopefully allow replacement of bought content if the unit or harddrive fails. Estimated download bandwidth for HD 1080P is 4 Mbps or about 1/4 that of blu-ray playback. Video image artifacts on this compressed size will be noticably higher. Access over 13,000 movies and TV titles from all Hollywood studios and leading independent distributors.

3rd party reviews on Vudu:

• VUDU Offers Higher Quality HDX Downloads
• Blu-ray and Downloads: Why Both Are Worth Offering

Starting in November 2009, customers in the U.K., France, Germany and Spain will be able to buy or rent movies from the online service to watch on their PlayStation consoles or PlayStation Portable devices. The service will offer films from the major U.S. studios as well as local players such as Germany’s Universum and Constantin Film. $1.99 for the purchase of one episode of a TV show and $9.99 for a movie. Rental prices also vary but usually movies rent for $2.99 (SD) and $4.50 (HD).

Connect to the PC through DLNA

1. Connect the 2009 Samsung Wireless LAN Adapter to the USB port on your TV.
2. Connect your PC to a router.
3. Install the PC Share Manager on your PC.

The 2009 Samsung LCD and Plasma 650 and above, and the LED 7000 and above models support DLNA with Wireless Lan Adapter. They can be connected to any device that supports standard DLNA such as PC, NAS, HHP or digital cameras.

Free Open Source digital video recorder (DVR) - Downloads only Cable TV programs with online schedule guide.

User friendly software that combines most online content in one package. It goes out and grabs video from other sources and manages the files.

HD software aggregator open source with online guide. Ability to download many sites for playback off-line. Miro also has an extensive help guide for publishing your own video online. Miro Guide

A legal site that indexes both copyright owner sites as well as pirate sites with video playback content. You can cruise through OVGuide and see what kind of legal and illegal Internet exposure there is for film and TV shows without downloading anything. You may wish to first read the excellent review and warnings of the site by AppScout, before exploring OVGuide.

Anyone who sells, acquires, copies or distributes copyrighted materials without permission is called a pirate. Anyone with information on suspected video piracy operations is urged to call the MPAA at 1-800-662-6797. Report Piracy