In an industry that has at least one studio forcing consumers to buy DVDs before getting the chance to rent them, Lionsgate is doing the opposite. Today, Lionsgate released the film Abduction on Facebook. Today also marks the film’s DVD and Blu-ray release.

Movie studios are looking into new business models just as book publishers and music labels have done. One new method will be tested by Universal Pictures and Comcast in November. Comcast customers in Portland and Atlanta will be able to rent the upcoming film Tower Heist for $60 while it’s still in theaters.

Individuals who pirate music and movies on the internet have a new concern thanks to a partnership between major internet service providers, movie studios and record labels. The organizations have created the Copyright Alert System which is designed to give suspected pirates fair warning before action is taken against them. This method currently has the support of AT&T, Time Warmer, Comcast, Verizon and Cablevision.

A Portuguese company has come up with a technology called the projective capacitive touchscreen. Unlike the typical multitouch screen on your gadgets, this touchscreen is a thinner-than-paper polymer film that when applied to glass, plastic or wood turns the surface interactive. Due to the nature of the polymer film, it can even be applied on more »

We’ve heard it all before, that the DVD is dying, and that the Blu-Ray might not even matter for movies, that the industry is going towards digital download. While that may be true, there is a chance that we might be seeing another physical way of distributing movies before we move to all download and more »

BodyGuardz is a producer of scratch resistant skins for electronic devices, including phones, Macbooks, iPods and gaming devices. You can choose the type of product that you own on the website and BodyGuardz will send you the particular skin for the device. Gadgetell tested out the BodyGuardz for a mobile phone.

I’d rather not tell you how I found this exclusive deal that will save you $29.99, but I can tell you to thank Oprah. It seems odd to talk about her again after doing so a couple of weeks ago when she was pimping out the Kindle reader from Amazon. This time, Snapfish.com was on more »

In much the same way Blu-ray hopes to eventually ‘kill’ the inferior DVD, DVD has finally buried VHS. “Old news!” I hear you cry, and yes, I appreciate that the VHS has been facing this impending doom for a while, but the day has finally come where we can officially say that it is a thing of the past.

Up until now JVC, the developers of VHS, have been the only major company to still make standalone VHS players, with companies like Panasonic blaming the obviously empty market for them stopping production. The last film to be released on VHS, “A History of Violence,” was released in 2006, completing 30 years of VHS dominated home visual entertainment, which started with “The Young Teacher.” Continued after the break.

“Every breath you take… Every move you make… Every bond you break… Every step you take.. I’ll be watching you.” Is it the end of privacy as we know it? People knowing where we are, and when we are there, seeing whatever it is we are doing. Or, just a cool and fun new way to geotag? Geotagging is nothing new and most of us are familiar with the term by now. Take a photo, and “tag” your location to tell all your friends or family where you were at when you shot it. But now, tagged single shots are going to seem like dinosaurs.

Trying to lure in customers to replace their DVDs or HD DVDs with Blu-rays, Paramount is offering ten bucks per title to do just that. Although Paramount and Dreamwork titles are involved in the offer, it isn’t good for just any Paramount movie.

According to HighDefDigest, the promotion will start with the release of Transformers on Blu-ray coming in just a few days on September 2nd. Hopefully you won’t mind messing up those boxes a bit though, since you need to include the proof-of-purchase tabs from both the DVD and the Blu-ray disk, along with the promotional certificate from inside eligible Blu-ray movies. You also have to buy your Blu-rays before December 31, 2009 and have your rebate envelope postmarked before January 31, 2010.