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RIM Announces BlackBerry Video Store for PlayBook, OS 2.0 update

Categories: BlackBerry, Multimedia, Tablets
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, September 15th, 2011 at 3:02 PM
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During RIM’s Q2 conference call tonight, Mike Lazaridis talked up an update to the BlackBerry PlayBook, which will include a new Video Store. It will offer around 10,000 movies and TV shows for rent or sale, often available on the same day as DVD releases. RIM moving into selling movies isn’t a huge surprise, considering they’ve already struck up a partnership with 7digital to sell music on the PlayBook. The tablet handles high-res video very well, and HDMI-out makes it viable for watching on a home TV (though some DLNA support to stream media wirelessly would make the process a bit less painful).

The BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 update will include other long-promised features, like stand-alone native e-mail and productivity apps, the Android App Player, BlackBerry Balance compatibility, some smaller improvements to Bridge and the browser, as well as some more mysterious additions, such as major media, gaming, and prodctivity additions.

We should be getting our first look at the BlackBerry Video store and PlayBook 2.0 at DevCon next month, with a public release shortly thereafter.

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  • Rick

    “with a public release shortly thereafter.”  

    Does this mean ‘Summer’, ‘Scheduled 60 Days”, “Soon”?  Which one this time?

  • Rick

    “with a public release shortly thereafter.”  

    Does this mean ‘Summer’, ‘Scheduled 60 Days”, “Soon”?  Which one this time?

    • Alessio

      2.0 ‘ll be released October 1-15 +/- from my sources ;) Aléssio

  • Rick

    “with a public release shortly thereafter.”  

    Does this mean ‘Summer’, ‘Scheduled 60 Days”, “Soon”?  Which one this time?

  • Anonymous

    Video store is exciting – can’t wait to see that added.

    7 Digital is an excellent music store and prices are reasonable. I buy all my on-line music from them though I still buy CDs from time to time.