It seems like Amazon may be looking to bring HD to their catalog, but they aren’t officially talking about it just yet. Such secrecy. No doubt the jump to HD titles is a bit of a “let’s play ball” reaction to the very recent release of HD movie titles on iTunes.

The Amazon site does already have some links to HD TV show downloads. They just won’t really do you any good at this point since the actual details page isn’t available yet. It looks as though they will be the same price as iTunes charges ($2.99 a pop), and a complete season will run you up to $53.

Blockbuster is about to launch a pilot test of its in-store kiosks for downloading movies into portable media devices. Sounds cool? Even cooler is the fact that downloading one movie would only take a customer two minutes. And we’re not talking here of short half an hour movies but movies for rent in all their full-length glory.

No less than Blockbuster’s Chairman and CEO James Keyes will be the one to demo the pilot kiosk during Blockbuster’s shareholder meeting. But don’t get too excited about this uber cool service yet folks, because the in-store kiosks only contain a few titles of movies, as Blockbuster is still negotiating with major studios regarding the possibility of including their movie titles into Blockbuster’s in-store kiosks database.

The direct-to-TV movie/video rental market is heating up with each of the major industry players coming up with their own proprietary movie rental services for the movie-watching public. The latest news that we have is coming courtesy of TiVo which has just sealed an agreement with Disney-ABC and CinemaNow to a offer direct-to-TV movie rental more »