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SONY INTRODUCES IT'S ULTRA THIN, FLEXIBLE, ELECTRONIC PAPER TECHNOLOGY SCREEN

On Friday, Sonyannounced their 2.5 wide x 0.01 inch thick electronic paper video screen. All we want to know is how long will it take for us to watch youtube on the go on one of these bad boys?

THE INFINITE VIDEO FORMAT WAR IS COMING

Blu-Ray will dominate the industry in three years. Or maybe it will be HD DVD. The general consensus is that whoever wins doesn't really get a lasting victory, since they're both in the last physical video format ever. That sentiment has largely been the consensus of the press and leaders in the tech industry.

The end of physical formats for movie and TV shows could be called digital convergence, a happy, wonderfully singular, unified digital world. Content moves seamlessly from your multifunction portable device to your TV, between your computers, and to every monitor and audio system and random networked appliance in between. To have that happen in a stream of bits floating effortlessly on radio waves, without physical discs or specially designated boxes, would be truly wonderful.

But an end to physical video formats doesn't mean an end to format wars. In fact, once film and television content are no longer bound by physical media, we're in for the mother of all format wars.

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BET & Wal-Mart Team Up, Kanye West DVD First Release

By Clarence Burke Jr.
BET and Wal-Mart announced a marketing alliance today (August 30) that will put BET branded DVD releases in Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club locations throughout the United States.

Under terms of the deal, BET will provide Wal-Mart with exclusive BET programming and other content related urban music and movies under the brand name “BET Official.”

The first release to hits stores under the BET Official brand is a CD/DVD combo featuring Kanye West. The DVD will come with a copy of West’s sophomore album Late Registration, which also hit stores today.

The DVD will contain behind-the-scenes footage, West’s Access Granted episode on the set of his video “Diamonds From Sierra Leone,” West on 106 & Park & several videos, including an unreleased video version of West’s hit “Jesus Walks.”

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