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Daily Tech: Nokia Booklet 3G Only Coming to Best Buy
- The only retailer in the US to get the 10-inch Nokia netbook will be Best Buy — Gizmodo
- Google Mobile now remembers what you've searched on your desktop and displays starred map locations — Lifehacker
- Sony is planning on releasing Blu-ray movie titles, which can only be watched on PSPs — Kotaku
- Tomorrow's Martha Stewart show will be entirely dedicated to talking about Twitter and live-blogging — Switched
- Sony's PSP Go hits store shelves today for $250 — Engadget
- It's giveaway and game time on GeekSugar! Be sure to log in and play our Best Video Game Ever bracket! — GeekSugar
Toshiba to Make Gadgets Blu-Ray Friendly
Sony recently announced their latest Sony VAIO NW notebook, which comes fully equipped with Blu-ray disc technology and now Toshiba has just announced that they are next in line to create devices that support Blu-ray storage format.
From HDTVs to laptops to DVD players, Toshiba will start rolling out these new Blu-ray products sometime this year.
It's What You've Been Waiting For: BSG, the Complete Series
I have to be honest — I've felt like a piece of me has been missing since the finale of Battlestar Galactica. I know, I know, I gotta move on. But thankfully, the epic space opera can live on in my heart, and soon it can live on a loop in my DVD player!
Do You Care About Having Blu-ray on Your Laptop?
Last week Sony debuted an affordable line of Sony VAIO laptops, the NW series, that can support Blu-ray discs. The news is great and is continuing the trend of laptops being able to support Sony's high-def disc technology, including an even cheaper Blu-ray laptop from Acer, just announced yesterday.
But it's hardly the simple format roll-out previously seen for, say, DVDs — Steve Jobs famously called Blu-ray "a bag of hurt" just months ago, when asked if we'd see it on Macs anytime soon.
Sony Debuts movieIQ on Blu-ray Discs and the VAIO NW
Yesterday I attended a Sony media event here in San Francisco where three major announcements were made. The first — which caught my attention — is the 400-disc Blu-ray player Sony plans on unveiling in the near future — that's right, 400 discs . .
Watchmen Gearing Up For a BD-Live Screening on Facebook
One of the coolest things about the Blu-ray takeover is BD-Live, which allows you do cool stuff like watch movies while recording your own commentary track — I've done The Dark Knight with my nearest and dearest and confirm its awesomeness.
For the Watchmen's Blu-ray release, it'll also get a revolutionary welcome on social network site Facebook. The Blu-ray discs will capitalize on the BD-Live feature and enable you to have "community screenings" on Facebook; you'll be able to watch the movie simultaneously with your Facebook friends and make status updates for your commentary.
Daily Tech: HP's Latest Blu-Ray Drive Is Total Eye Candy
- HP's new dv2 ultraslim notebook comes with this shiny, sleek, and sexy external Blu-ray drive. — CrunchGear
- Here's another tool for Twitter addicts. A new service called Birdhouse acts as a place for you to store your tweets before you post them online.
Netflix Raises Blu-ray Access Prices: Still Worth It?
I was quite peeved when I got an email yesterday from Netflix saying that the price for Blu-ray access was being raised from $1 to $3 for my two-at-a-time membership (check out a price breakdown).
I took it in stride when they upped it from being free to $1 per month last year — I love Blu-rays and with my HDTV, I only rent a DVD if it's the only format available. Netflix's reasoning — that the Blu-ray demand has gotten popular and Blu-rays cost more — makes sense, but it also feels like we're getting the shaft.
Daily Tech: The Mac Mini Is Loved by Many
- When Wired asked its readers who uses the Mac Mini and why, they were flooded with positive comments. See what they were. — Wired
- BlackBerry's App store website — called BlackBerry App World — has just been updated, and RIM has set the minimum price for pad apps at $2.99.
Twilight's Blu-ray Disc Will Be a Target and Best-Buy Exclusive
Now that Blu-ray is the only format I can stand to buy new movies of these days, I wait eagerly for Blu-ray releases rather than just the DVD release. So it's with relief to say that Twilight will be released on Blu-ray at the same time as the DVD (March 21).
No huge shock there, but the interesting thing is that the Blu-ray disc will be exclusively available at Target and Best Buy until May 5 (check out that link for the DVD and B-ray extras too).
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