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AP – Americans’ spending on home videos has finally emerged from the recession — helped by more purchases of higher-priced Blu-ray discs and greater outlays on cut-rate rentals from Netflix and Redbox.

Digital Trends – House of the Dead: Overkill, from Sega, continues to be one of the best gaming experiences one can find on Nintendo‘s Wii. The new House of the Dead: Overkill Extended Cut doesn’t really fill the same role in its new PlayStation 3 release, but that doesn’t really matter. Shooting zombies for points is still ridiculously entertaining, and the experience is further enhanced by some of the funniest writing that video games have yet seen.

Digital Trends – Last week, video eyewear maker Vuzix announced (pdf) that it has partnered with cell phone maker Nokia to produce the next generation of see-through near-eye display (NED) glasses. The glasses will use Exit Pupil Expanding (EPE) optics technology developed by both Vuzix and Nokia.

Digital Trends – Telltale Games’ Jurassic Park will be available on both Playstation Network and Xbox Live here in the U.S. on November 15, but European Xbox gamers will likely have to wait until 2012 to get in on the dinosaur-filled fun.

NewsFactor – Research In Motion hopes to move some PlayBooks before the end of the year with a promotion that aims at business users. The BlackBerry U.S. Web site is making an offer it hopes mobile business users won’t be able to refuse.

NewsFactor – Sunday, Nov. 6, will be the date of AT&T’s leap into LTE smartphone coverage as the carrier launches two new 4G, dual-core Android smartphones, one of which is cleverly dubbed the Skyrocket.

AP – Picture this: Kodak — the company that invented the first digital camera in 1975, and developed the photo technology inside most cellphones and digital devices — is in the midst of the worst crisis in its 131-year history.

Digital Trends – November is turning into a big month for Verizon LTE and Android. The Motorola Droid Razr is set to debut on Nov. 10, and the Google/Samsung Galaxy Nexus is rumored to launch on Nov. 17 and will be the first phone running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Well, it looks like a third dual-core 4G LTE Android device may be on the way: the HTC Rezound (also known as the HTC Vigor, in some rumors). Droid-Life has captured a somewhat deformed shot of the phone via a Verizon ad that went live too soon. In the image below, the Rezound stands by the Droid Bionic and LG Revolution as an LTE device. Beats headphones and branding appear to be present as well. 

Reuters – The nondescript stretch of asphalt is an unlikely symbol of Brazil’s attempt to lift its economy into a new high-tech era.

Digital Trends – Ultrabooks are only just going on sale here in the United States, but it looks like sales in Taiwan are already disappointing Asus and Acer. DigiTimes reports that the two companies now expect to ship 100,000 Ultrabooks by the end of 2011, far short of their target of 200,000-300,00 units. A big problem is that they’re unable to price the notebooks lower than Apple’s MacBook Air. The Asus 11.6-inch Ultrabook costs about $1,205 (converted U.S. currency) compared to the $1,000 price of the Air. Acer’s 13.6-inch Aspire S3 is also priced at $1,101.