Hasta La Gadget!

Netflix today finally unveiled its long-awaited streaming-only movie plan. The company will charge $7.99 for the service, which does away with DVD mailers, in exchange for unlimited online streaming of movies and TV shows to PCs and TVs.

The company’s CEO Reed Hastings had big words for the move, which the company seems to be regarding as a major paradigm shift,

We are now primarily a streaming video company delivering a wide selection of TV shows and films over the Internet. Today’s action reflects the tremendous customer value we’ve injected into streaming from Netflix, our initial success with a pure streaming service in Canada for $7.99 a month and what our U.S. members tell us they want.

Netflix has offered streaming for some time now, but the selection has been noticeably lacking since launch. The company has made a large push toward extending its offerings in anticipation of all streaming service.

The company is also upping the price of its non-streaming plans, bumping its one-at-a-time DVD plan up a dollar to $9.99 a month. The price increases will take effect in January for existing users and immediate new customers. The streaming-only plan, meanwhile, is available now.

Amazon is breaking out the Black Friday deals early this year. Every day until Cyber Monday, the site will be offering up five MP3 albums on the cheap, leading off what’s sure to be the biggest record for the foreseeable future, Kayne West’s new nearly universally praised record Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

The download version of the hip-hop opus will run you $3.99 for the next day or so–it’s the closest thing to a steal without actually stealing the thing (which is considerably harder, now that LimeWire has shut its doors).

Today’s four other selections are new records from My Chemical Romance, Ne-Yo, Robyn, and (shudder) Dane Cooke’s Greatest Hits.

Can the body scanners used by the TSA save images? It seems unreasonable to geeks that a computer cannot save any images at all—ever. But according to a statement made to Gizmodo by the TSA, that’s the case. More »

Nintendo will be offering orange and green DSi bundles to customers starting Friday. The bundles will retail for $149.99 while supplies last.

Originally posted at The Digital Home

Over at DCHome’s forum, a user posted a pic of what seems to be Nikon’s concept for a snapper that’ll compete in the same ranks as the Panasonic and Olympus Micro Four Thirds, Samsung NX, and Sony NEX format.