The original Star Wars has been voted the film most film fans want to see as a 3D release on Blu-ray. The sci-fi classic was the clear favourite of the Home Media Tastemakers Forum (which, according to trade journal Home Media Magazine, is a screened group of consumers being used as a sounding board by some US movie studios).  read more »

Sixteen million UK households will have access to Freeview HD by Christmas 2010, according to Freeview managing director Ilse Howling. Speaking at London’s Intellect Consumer Electronics Conference, Howling said the new service, featuring BBC HD, ITV HD, Channel 4 HD and (at some point) Five HD will be available to half of all UK homes in time for the 2010 World Cup.  read more »

JVC’s debut Blu-ray disc player, the XV-BP1, looks likely to be the first from a major Japanese brand to offer hi-def MKV file playback support as part of its multimedia functionality.

It joins LG’s BD370 (which it appears to be related to), in also offering buyers the ability to play back DivX and MPEG-4 content from USB.  read more »

As you are all undoubtedly aware, sci-fi smash Battlestar Galactica is making the jump to Blu-ray later this year. Even before the show came to an end earlier in 2009, fans had been clamouring for the original miniseries and the subsequent four seasons of the hit show to be available to buy in hi-def. Now it's  read more »

Three of the world’s most famous movie studios are in talks to merge elements of their DVD operations.

Executives from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment are reportedly discussing the possibility of combining DVD production and distribution, including moving all disc replication to Sony DADC.  read more »

Sony says that it has managed to reduced its global CO2 emissions by approximately 100,000 tons over the last financial year. The achievement comes on the back of several company-wide environmental initiatives. 'Through continuous energy efficiency efforts, European operations have reduced CO2 emissions by approximately 90 per cent between 2000 and 2008,' added the company.  read more »

Projectiondesign says its eagerly-awaited avielo kroma LED-lit DLP projector will arrive in the UK 'imminently'. Utilising ReaLED solid-state illumination instead of a traditional lamp, it will take on Vivitek’s H9080FD at the high-end of the DLP home cinema market.  read more »

Optoma has unveiled its first DLP-Link 3D projector, which will hit stores before the end of the year.

Priced at around £500, the as-yet unnamed model was demonstrated at the CEDIA 2009 exhibition in London, using the chassis of the company's HD65. It has a resolution of 1280 x 720 (HD Ready) and uses a single lens to create a stereoscopic image.  read more »