Hollywood is now making its latest movies available in the US for download the same day DVDs arrive. First movie for simultaneous DVD and download treatment will be Brokeback Mountain, available on Tuesday at Movielink (www.movielink.com). Playing on the service just launched today, are recent releases King Kong, Memoirs of a Geisha, Pride & Prejudice, Rent and Harry…

UK telephone giant BT is in advanced talks with several Hollywood studios to give its internet customers access to a comprehensive film library this autumn. It has already signed a deal with Paramount.

Universal Pictures UK has announced the launch of the nation’s first proper movie download service. First up is King Kong, ready to download to your PC next month. Also arriving on the 10th of April is a raft of 34 titles, including Keira Knightley's version of Pride and Prejudice and game-to-movie adaptation, Doom. Unlike previous movie UK downloads like Sky By Broadband and AOL&rsqu…

With DVD player prices tumbling, some machines are now cheaper than the films they play. Tesco`s own-brand model arrives in store this week priced at £17.97 as part of its "value electricals" range.

Cable company Telewest has launched the UK's first high definition television (HDTV) service. The service is limited at the moment to shows made by BBC Worldwide and users must have an HD-ready TV and a Telewest TVDrive set-top box to receive it.

Aimazoo's Gypsy5 Range of Portable Motion Capture Systems has a new model in its mechanical range of motion capture suits starting from less than £6,000

New film website is going for star quality - in tomorrow's filmmakers today.

A workshop on machinima, hosted 14 - 17 March by Mediamatic in Amsterdam, is all about making movies with game engines. Machinima is the art of making film inside the real-time 3D virtual environment of a video game engine. By treating the in-game viewpoint as a camera, the gamespace becomes the set, the characters turn into actors, and the gamer becomes a director.

The first HD-DVD player should be available within the next couple of weeks, but there is a slight catch. It comes as a part of a portable Toshiba Qosmio G30 Core Duo-based PC costing around £2,000. No rush to buy is expected because at the moment there are no films released on HD-DVD to watch on it. All the same, Toshiba feels they are keeping their customers ahead of the game.