Integrating an Xbox 360 into your home automation system now transforms the Xbox 360 from a gaming device to a movie and music server. A distributed system allows central location and sharing of all the devices in your home. With the Xbox360 that now means the unit could be selected from any room and used and controlled via an in-wall panel or remote control.

Sky Player is Sky’s online TV service – great TV from Sky on your computer. And now you can watch Sky Player on your Xbox 360. (Xbox LIVE Gold and relevant Sky subscriptions required.)

From Engadget

Apple just announced that iTunes UK will finally make films available to British punters. Studios include 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate UK. At kickoff, about 700 films will be available to purchase or rent. Films cost £6.99 for purchased library titles and £10.99 for new releases. Rentals start at £2.49 for library titles and £3.49 for new releases — “HD” titles for £4.49 without with an Apple TV prerequisite, apparently. [read]

From The Guardian

The DVD is only 10 years old and yet the doom merchants are predicting it could join the likes of VHS tapes – vanishing from high-street stores and household shelves. With reports that Apple is poised to launch full-length film downloads in Britain and other companies offering their own video-on-demand services, even DVD industry insiders admit the format may eventually die out…[more]

The company intends to unveil agreements with Disney, the studio behind the Pirates of the Caribbean series and Paramount, the company behind the Indiana Jones picture… [more]