How Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office, the City Council, CE manufacturers and the National Resources Defense Council hammer out an e-waste plan for New York City is likely to set a template for other densely populated cities in the country, NRDC senior attorney Kate Sinding told Green Electronics Daily. The parties have continued to talk since CEA and the ITI Council withdrew their lawsuit to stop the New York City e-waste program from taking effect, following enactment of New York State’s e-waste law in June that rendered the city program moot, Sinding said. NRDC intervened as a co-defendant with the city to fight the injunction CE makers sought. The state law takes effect in April.

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. -- Two more Fox DVD releases each packaged with four sets of anaglyph 3D glasses from TrioScopics will arrive next month, following Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 3D that’s being released Tuesday in the same bundle configuration, TrioScopics CEO John Lowry told Consumer Electronics Daily at the 3D Entertainment Summit. He declined to name them. In announcing Ice Age early this week, Fox stressed that the DVD would be “playable on all conventional home entertainment equipment.” Fox didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Google is a “serial offender” that is violating copyright law, other companies’ patents and the privacy of the public, Precursor CEO Scott Cleland, a longtime critic of the company, said Thursday in a hearing by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy. But much of the focus of the hearing was on the broader issue of whether recent developments like Apple’s launch of its own mobile advertising network, iAd, after it bought mobile ad network Quattro Wireless, are moving too fast for antitrust law to keep up.

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. -- There’s still “a lot of confusion” among consumers about 3D and many of them still “don’t understand” many aspects of the technology and its benefits, said Andy Parsons, chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association’s U.S. Promotions Committee and senior vice president of new product planning at Pioneer Electronics, at the 3D Entertainment Summit Thursday. The key is educating consumers with accurate information, he said. His take was echoed by various manufacturers and Bryan Burns, vice president of strategic business planning and development at ESPN.

TV white spaces will play a key role in communications once devices are made available, most likely next year, said speakers at a New America Foundation panel Wednesday. The discussion comes with several fine points in the FCC’s white spaces order, scheduled for a vote at the Sept. 23 commission meeting, still potentially in play. The order finalizes the proceeding, after the FCC approved the use of the white spaces for accessing the Internet in November 2008. The agency is expected to cut off further lobbying when it releases the sunshine agenda on next week’s meeting Thursday.

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. -- The growing number of inferior 3D movies -- particularly those converted poorly and quickly from 2D -- and the shortage of adequate screens to accommodate all the 3D movies released theatrically are among the threats to growth of the technology, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said Wednesday at the 3D Entertainment Summit.

Majesco Entertainment’s Q4 “is off to a strong start” due to new releases, including Babysitting Mama for the Wii and Zumba Fitness, CEO Jesse Sutton said on an earnings call late Tuesday. While it’s “still early,” he said “initial demand from our retail partners” for those two titles is “shaping up well.” But Sutton said Majesco is “disappointed” that it had to lower its fiscal year results forecast after slightly delaying the releases of all three SKUs of Zumba Fitness and the PS3 version of Greg Hastings Paintball 2 from fiscal 2010 ending Oct. 31 until early fiscal 2011. Crafting Mama also won’t be released until the final week of fiscal 2010, interim Chief Financial Officer Michael Vesey said.

When it comes to shipping a new broadband-enabled HD DVR/DirecTV satellite receiver, “the ball is in TiVo’s court” on when the product becomes available, Martin Sheehan, DirecTV senior director of investor relations, told us. While TiVo originally expected to ship the combo device in 2009, there were many technical issues that need to be resolved in porting TiVo’s DVR platform to a DirecTV HD satellite receiver, he said. TiVo is “continuing to test” the HD DVR/satellite receiver and will have it available by year end (CED Sept 15 p1).

High-end audio company Bryston is using CEDIA as a launch pad for a new class of digital music player targeting the small but underserved computer audiophile population. Bryston Vice President James Tanner told Consumer Electronics Daily that a growing supply of high-quality 176/24 and 192/24 digital downloads from audiophile music labels is creating a market for playback equipment that can handle hi-res digital audio.

Best Buy’s Q2 operating margin jumped 130 basis points to 25.7 percent on strong sales of smartphones, accessories and services at Best Buy Mobile, the chain said Tuesday. But U.S. same-store sales in core CE products fell 6.7 percent from Q2 a year earlier on “overall weakness” in TVs, it said.