The publicly supported, not-for-profit television network PBS has announced a deal for several programs to be streamed on the Hulu Web site. These include “Nova,” “Wired Science,” “Carrier” and “Scientific American Frontiers.”

Merlin, a new trade body founded a year ago with the aim of representing the rights of independent labels worldwide, announced on Wednesday that its membership has grown to over 12,000 labels, representing over 8% of the U.S. market -- equal to that of major label EMI Music.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment is launching Web-connected BD Live on all of its upcoming Disney-branded Blu-ray Disc releases beginning in the fourth quarter.

Virgin Media will launch a campaign against illegal downloading next week, when it'll begin firing off warning letters to to subscribers that the BPI believes are sharing copyright music files.

Second-tier Taiwan-based CD-R and DVD+R/-R discs producers are facing short supplies of TFP (tetrafluoro-propanol), a dye solvent used in the manufacture of optical discs, and consequently some have reduced production while others have even stopped production temporarily, according to industry sources.

Singulus received orders for 21 Blu-ray dual-layer machines in the first quarter and believe the figure showed the new technology was being adopted faster than its predecessor, DVD, 11 years ago.

Amazon.com is now selling a Samsung 61-inch 1080p HDTV for $1,349 -- 41 percent off the suggested list price. The DLP set, model HLT6176S, has a picture resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels, 3 HDMI inputs, a contrast ratio of 10,000 to 1 and weighs just 74 pounds.

Tsutaya, Japan's biggest rental chain, have announced it will launch an HD video on demand service, allowing users to download titles from home.

Japansese VMJ and Sharp, will this month begin shipping the first 65" 3D LCD display to high-power professionals, airports or shopping centers.

With the high definition DVD format war settled, Wal-Mart Stores Inc is now aggressively promoting sales of Blu-ray players.

CBS Corp said on Wednesday it reached a deal to allow its Web videos to be carried by Yahoo Inc, part of a broader plan by the media company to add new outlets for its television shows.

Traxdata has extended its Blu-ray Recordable media range to incorporate BD-R4x, making it one of the few brands to currently supply certified Blu-ray Recordable 4x Media.

Ritek, a leading optical-disk manufacturer in Taiwan, has recently announced the production of their first pre-recorded BD for the movie Rambo IV. This disc is the first of its kind in Taiwan. This BD disk is also the first to have a storage capacity of 50GB.

Press Release: LG Electronics have unveiled its new line of optical disc drives, which feature one of the fastest Blu-ray reading and writing speed of 6x.

Although the scheme has been running successfully in the States for sometime, with some US content available here, iTunes U has just received its full UK launch.

The battery life of portable gadgets has always been a source of frustration. But Apple may have found an eco-friendly way around the problem – by integrating a solar panel behind, say, the iPhone’s LCD display.

High-end consumer electronics retailers expect set-top Blu-ray players to begin outselling DVD players by August, as a wave of new models eases current supply problems.

Samsung has announced that it has developed the world’s fastest, 2.5-inch, 256 Gigabyte (GB) multi-level cell (MLC) based solid state drive (SSD) using a SATA II interface, at the fifth annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum. Samsung’s new 256GB SSD is also the thinnest drive with the largest capacity to be offered with a SATA II interface.

Speaking at yesterday's Wedbush Morgan Securities annual Management Access Conference, the Atari founder Nolan Bushnell suggested that game piracy will soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new chip.

Apple is continuing to expand on its newfound variable pricing policy for TV shows, an announcement for the UK reveals.