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WSJ: Walmart to offer in-store disc to digital UltraViolet service Mar 4th 2012, 18:46 Hollywood's latest digital ecosystem offers lots of promise, but in the five months since its release, it couldn't be further from delivering on it. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Walmart will finally make use of its membership to the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem by offering in-store disc to digital UltraViolet upgrade opportunities, for a small price of course. No doubt UltraViolet can use all the help it can get, but this is far from what we were hoping for when we learned Walmart would be in the mix -- we were hoping for the ability to buy and watch UltraViolet movies via Walmart's Vudu. Beyond our personal wishes, this no where near the big revelation that most consumers would actually find interesting: the release of the Common File Format which promises universal offline playback of our movie collection. WSJ: Walmart to offer in-store disc to digital UltraViolet service originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  Wall Street Journal  | Email this | Comments Audi's 'Visions' will pimp your ride, light up the neighborhood (video) Mar 4th 2012, 17:24 We don't think there is such a thing as Racing stripes "2.0", but if there was, this is what it might look like. Audi's "Visions" project brings the OLEDs we know and love to the outside of the not-so-humble automobile. Like something out of Tron, the fancy light array in the concept we see here hints at how external lighting on cars might look in the near future. Stephan Berlitz, Head of Lighting Electronics for the car maker, states that we're still some way out from OLED surfaces replacing front and brake lights, due to low currents and the temperature ranges the diodes can presently operate under. We might, however, see it replacing tail and side lights before too long. If you watch the video after the break, you may have a few ideas for those pseudo-screens of your own. Continue reading Audi's 'Visions' will pimp your ride, light up the neighborhood (video) Audi's 'Visions' will pimp your ride, light up the neighborhood (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink SlashGear  |  Euro Car News  | Email this | Comments

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