Time Warner has began offering its video-on-demand customers access to brand new films on the same day they hit theaters. Starting today, Time Warner is selling pay-per-view access to the film Trespass starring Nicholas Cage and Nicole Kidman for $6.99 .The film is also available in theaters today as well. Time Warner will follow-up this strategy with Marginal Call on October 21.

Porn is something you wouldn’t think a cable company CEO would talk about. Even though porn brings in a lot of extra dollars, it’s one of those things that is too taboo for a lot of people. Interestingly enough, Time Warner’s CEO Glen Britt mentioned the demand (or lack thereof) for porn when discussing his company’s video on demand service during the companies Q2 2011 earnings conference call.

The Digital Entertainment Group released a report today detailing home entertainment expenditures in the Unites States for the first quarter of 2011. Based on this report, it appears as if traditional video rental establishments are losing a lot of business to alternative business models. Blu-ray adaptation is also on the rise.

At the beginning of April, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures agreed to launch a premium video on demand service called Home Premiere. Home Premiere will provide access to movies two months after they’ve arrived in theaters. The cost to rent each movie will be $30 for a period of two to three days. Some theaters aren’t too happy about this service because it could possibly negatively affect theater visits. AMC Entertainment and Regal Entertainment are just to companies that are willing to go to extremes to to combat Home Premiere.

Major movies studios such as 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Sony and Universal are ready to release a new video on-demand service at the end of April. The service is called Home Premiere and it offers movie rentals for films that have been in theaters for two months. Each movie will cost $30 to rent for 48 to 72 hours. This VOD service is meant to grab customers who would have missed new movies as soon as they were released in theaters.

A new video-on-demand service might be competiting with the likes of Hulu and Netflix soon, as PaidContent is reporting that UK’s BBC is planning bringing its iPlayer service to the U.S. soon. BBC iPlayer is a multi-platform on-demand service that serves BBC’s TV and radio shows. BBC iPlayer was launched a few year ago and more »

Amazon has recently begun pimping the HD and HD-XR versions of the Roku set top box. This latest offer will give a $20 credit that can be used towards Amazon Video On Demand purchases if you buy a Roku HD or Roku HD-XR. Price wise, the Roku HD is selling for $99.99 and the HD-XR more »

For awhile now Android fans have been wondering if the popular Kindle app would ever be made available to them. So far there an iPhone/iPod Touch version, a PC version, and a BlackBerry version, and it looks like at long last an Android version will join them. The Dell Mini 5 handheld, a sleek mini-tablet more »

Vudu is working with Mitsubishi once again. Recently, a purchase of a Mitsubishi television garnered a Vudu player and more. Now, certain Mitsubishi televisions will have Vudu built in. The Diamond models of Unisen Immersive Sound TVs will have a Vudu player integrated. The model numbers of these televisions are LT-46249 and LT-52249. You’ll have more »

Instant streaming movies really seem to be the way everything is going. Blu-ray isn’t exactly the hottest selling format and an increasing number of players are also including streaming services for those who want to watch something right that moment rather than going to get the disc, or waiting for it to arrive. While many more »