Set your eyes to stun. Panasonic Japan just raised the game in the "mine is bigger than yours" battle by taking the wraps off its huge 145-inch 8k television, thus outdoing Sharp's 85-inch 8k set by a healthy margin.

On Sunday, Variety reported that Ubisoft Motion Pictures is currently in the pre-production stages of 3D adaptations of three of its most popular brands – “Assassin’s Creed,” “Splinter Cell” and “Ghost Recon.” The company hopes to have scripts ready by the end of the year.

Research by the anti-fraud firm revealed the biggest five films of 2010 were download around 1.4 million times during last year. For example, Avatar is thought to have been illegally downloaded around 200,000 times. Furthermore, internet piracy is costing the film industry around £170m every year.

The giant robots in the new Transformer movies are all computer-generated. The ear-rattling sounds, however, are 100% real. Right down to the tiger with emphysema playing Megatron. Really.

Executive producer Steven Spielberg demanded Megan Fox be sacked from the third Transformers movie after she compared director Michael Bay to Hitler.

Warner Bros has released a final trailer for the final film in the Harry Potter series - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2.

The BBC is to start rolling out its iPlayer service to international audiences later this year, but it will be available to iPad owners only at first.

The BBC has decided to switch from broadcasting all its content on Freeview HD in 1080i (interlace) to broadcasting compatible content in 1080p (progressive) - but just forgot to tell anyone.

Nazis Filmed the 1936 Olympics in 3D?Apparently, Nazis were using 3D cameras before any of us thought 3D was dumb. According to Variety, Nazis had developed a 'sophisticated stereoscopic camera' to record athletes as they crossed the finish line in the 1936 Olympics.

South Park tackled Apple’s Big Brother-ish tendencies and LocationGate in Wednesday night’s episode, which explored some lingering ill will about the company.

Slowly but surely, the venerable establishment that is the British Broadcasting Corporation is bringing itself up to speed on modern technology. Its ground-breaking iPlayer service has proven to be extremely successful online, and it has since been ported to other delivery methods, such as the Nintendo Wii and Sony's PS3.

Russian films are being made available through Apple's iTunes service without the consent of the copyright holders, the BBC has learned. The popular films, dating from the Soviet era, are being made available to download as smartphone apps.

Matrix fanboys all over the world rejoice – Keanu Reeves himself has mentioned he's being tapped for two new Matrix movies. The new Matrix movies will be ongoing adventures of the aging Neo, and will be direct sequels of the last Matrix movie: Matrix Revolutions. And according to some rumors online, the people in charge of the Matrix films have been talking to James Cameron, which leads to the speculation about the movie being shot and being shown in 3D.

Anne Hathaway has seen off Jessica Biel and Keira Knightley to take the role of Catwoman in the forthcoming The Dark Knight Rises. The thesp will play the female lead opposite Christian Bale in the next outing of the Batman franchise, directed by Christopher Nolan and slated for release in July 2012.

It would be foolish to dismiss the might of the Angry Birds now, as it was easy to dismiss it off as just another game before it gained cult status. Like any gaming franchise worth its salt Angry Birds is coming to your TV screens if the good people at Rovio are to be believed.

James Cameron's Avatar is the number one pirated movie of 2010, according to new BitTorrent stats. The movies that were downloaded illegally in the past year pretty much adhere to what were the big movies of the last 12 months but there are a few notable exceptions.

Google is planning revisions and has asked TV makers to delay introductions, catching some off guard.

Since 3D launched on Sky back in October, it has been a bit of a non event. Sure, looking at Richard Keys in in all three dimensions in your living room is great but we always felt it was lacking something. And last night we found out what. Sir David Attenborough.

If there's one thing the craptacular "Super Mario Bros." feature film of 1993 proved, it's that Mario and Luigi do not belong in movies. Or...do they?

Sony is continuing its efforts to have its Blu-ray playing PlayStation 3 console considered the entertainment hub of the living room, announcing a deal with ITV and Channel 4 to bring the stations' video on demand services to the platform.