The disc will be officially released on December 18^th

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The Dealthy Hallows was JK Rowling’s favourite book and was the fastest selling book of all time.  The films are dark and complicated. Harry, Ron and Hermione are battling to locate and destroy Horcruxes as several major characters loose their lives protecting Harry.  Hogwarts is besieged by death eaters, the mysterious circumstances of Dumbledore’s death are explained and Harry surrenders himself to death at Voldemort’s hand….

Offering some light relief is The Hangover part 2, this time the Wolf pack wake up in Thailand and needing to piece together the details of the night before. They retrace their steps through strip clubs, tattoo parlours and cocaine-dealing monkeys on the streets of Bangkok to try and find future brother in law Teddy before the wedding.

You can buy the releases here and here

The first disc features the Friday night concert which was a 20^th anniversary performance of the 1991 album ‘Holidays in Eden’.  The Saturday and Sunday night concerts are to be released on two DVDs per night and will slot into the packaging to complete the set.

The sets are available in PAL and NTSC to the band’s worldwide fan base and are available to purchase from their web site http://www.marillion.com/

The film explores the darker side of social networking.  It’s set on a luxury private plane where the four passengers are under the impression that they have won an all expenses paid trip to New York, courtesy of Facebook equivalent all2gethr.com.

Forced to give up their mobile phones for the duration of the flight the passengers are greeted upon take-off, by the face of a talking alligator on the television monitors.  The sinister alligator introduces them to the in-flight entertainment: a game based on their internet habits. Eager to play with the mention of expensive prizes, the contestants agree to partake in the game, which is soon to become an unrelenting nightmare at 30,000 feet.

The film, dubbed ‘SAW on a Lear jet’ is smart and fresh with a tight script and left us a little bit nervous of using Facebook.

You can buy the Blu-ray here and DVD from here, the film will be available on iTunes soon!

We’ve just created and delivered some pre-loaded Bamboo memory sticks for the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) to take to a climate change workshop in South Africa.

The IIED has been a world leader in the field of sustainable development since 1971.  It works with partners on five continents to tackle key global issues — climate change, urbanisation, the pressures on natural resources and the forces shaping global markets.

With deforestation and forest degradation being the third largest global contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, forests have an enormous role to play in any attempts to combat climate change. An international scheme called REDD (Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) offers a financial incentive to keep trees standing and reduce global greenhouse emissions. The workshop on 27 November shared perspectives on how REDD can deliver for people who depend on the forests.

The memory sticks are made of bamboo, a sustainable crop and have a detachable top secured to the body with magnets to protect the USB content.  The body of the memory sticks were engraved by laser.

Each memory stick was pre-loaded with interactive menus which launch PDF files, a thumbnail image gallery, hyperlinks and an email launcher.

Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem’s (DECE) UltraViolet (UV), which is already available in the US, enables consumers to “buy once, play anywhere”, meaning they purchase a title once and can play it in on as many as 12 different devices.

The system, which is backed by 75 companies including Tesco, Samsung, Nokia, Sky and LoveFilm, works by consumers receiving a code when they buy a DVD or Blu-ray disc enabling them to download or stream a digital version.

They can also create a virtual locker of films and TV shows for access from the cloud on a wide variety of devices, including PC, Mac, Android and iOS. Up to five people can be added to each user’s account.

“If consumers buy a movie or TV show they should be able to use it in any way they want,” said Mark Teitell, the general manager of DECE.

“This allows consumers to buy enduring rights to a piece of content, like an internet-based version of a proof of purchase, that they can then watch pretty much anywhere they want.”

Warner Bros will offer the first UV-enabled title in the UK, with the launch of Final Destination 5 on DVD, Blu-Ray & Triple Play on December 26.

In October, the studio released the first ever UV titles, Horrible Bosses and Green Lantern, in the US.

Following the release of Final Destination 5, Warner Bros intends to use UV for all its forthcoming home entertainment releases in the UK, including Happy Feet Two, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and The Dark Knight Rises.

Warner Bros’ UK managing director television and digital distribution Chris Law said: “By making Final Destination 5 and all future WB theatrical new release titles UV enabled, we are offering consumers a simple and more compelling way to purchase, manage, access and share their movie collections digitally.

“This is just the first step, I’m confident we’ll be seeing more and more compatible content and services launching in the coming months.”

UltraViolet is intended to work alongside rather than compete with existing video on-demand offerings such as LoveFilm and the Tesco-owned Blinkbox.

Ed Barton, director of digital media at the research house, said the market for subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) services, popularised by the likes of Netflix and Hulu Plus, has a “lot of room for growth.” He added that next year will be important in how these markets shake out in the UK and Western Europe.

SVoD revenue on a global basis to 2016 will expand by a compound annual growth rate of over 30%, “which is pretty strong,” Barton told C21. This compares with a predicted annual growth rate for digital online retail over the same period of just over 10%, online rental being slightly stronger at about 15%.

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The store in Brazil will offer thousands of movies from studios including 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures, The Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros, along with a music catalogue of over 20 million songs.

The Latin American roll-out follows Netflix’s expansion into the region earlier this year with its subscription film rental service. Though Apple’s app store is already available in 123 countries, this will be the first time it will offer film rentals or downloads in these Lat Am countries.

The news comes as another Apple product, Apple TV, quietly expands. Often described by the firm itself as no more than a “hobby,” the service has emerged as the leading player in the connected TV player market and will account for 32% of internet-connected set-top boxes this year, according to Strategy Analytics.

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During the Future TV Advertising Forum in December, Jeremy Tester, Director of Brand Strategy and Communications at Sky Media, the sales arm of BSkyB, outlined the company’s advanced advertising strategy. This is likely to include an expansion of its SkyView consumer panel, which currently covers over 30,000 BSkyB subscriber homes and collects data about set-top box usage and combines this with brand purchasing data from many of the same homes.

“Why not go to 500,000 or one million or 5 million homes.” Tester said. “What if we had our customers’ permission to look at all their viewing on all their set-top boxes? If you have the right STB and have the ability to analyse that data then why not do that? Then you get a really great picture of our universe and that is the path we are on and we are starting to see the systems that will deliver that data to us and give us a second-by-second understanding of what set-top boxes and other devices in the home have been used for in the last 24 hours, and build that into a data source covering millions of homes.”

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