Sharp announced that it plans to offer an 85-inch Super Hi-Vision 8K display at the end of October for 16,000,000 yen (about $133,034). Designed for professional use, the LV-85001 is a monitor rather than a TV, but includes a tuner. “Coming in at 16 times the resolution of 1080p screens, the 7,680 x 4,320 pixel LCD panel uses Sharp’s IGZO technology,” notes Engadget. “To actually watch any 8K video, you’ll need to plug into all four of its HDMI inputs at once just to have enough bandwidth.” While the delivery of 8K video is likely a few years away, broadcasters can use Sharp’s new display to continue testing the technology.

Snapchat, the social service that bases its model on disappearing messages, updated its app this week to provide the option of making messages reappear. The update also includes new photo lenses and trophies for completing tasks. “Snapchat began letting U.S. users replay three messages for 99 cents, the first time the company has charged for any feature in the free program,” The Wall Street Journal reports. “With more than 100 million users logging on to Snapchat every day, those cents could begin to add up.” The move could also prove beneficial to Apple, since the company typically receives 30 percent of in-app purchases.

Virtual reality has a new first. The “Sleepy Hollow: VR Experience,” created for the Oculus Rift DK2 by Fox and Toronto-based Secret Location, was awarded an Emmy in the Interactive Media category for User Experience and Visual Design. An extension to Fox Television’s hit show, the project debuted at Comic-Con in San Diego. According to Engadget, “Another Emmy was handed to the team behind the ‘AMEX Unstaged: Taylor Swift Experience’ app, a 360-degree video based on the singer’s Blank Space music video, which has been viewed over a billion times.”

During its press event ahead of the Tokyo Game Show, Sony announced that it has renamed its Project Morpheus virtual reality headset as PlayStation VR. Sony’s device will compete with the likes of Facebook’s Oculus Rift, Valve-HTC’s Vive headset, and others expected to hit the market in the near future. “The company didn’t say exactly when PlayStation VR would ship, but it said that it would demo a bunch of titles in the Japanese market,” reports VentureBeat. “The hardware will be available to try on the show floor of the TGS, which draws tens of thousands of fans.”

Sony has reportedly been in preliminary talks with companies regarding its Crackle video-streaming service and the possibility of offering skinny bundles of video channels. “The result could be a dramatic expansion of distribution for the advertising-supported service now largely available through Internet-connected TV sets, gaming consoles and other online devices,” suggests TheStreet. Dish Network’s Sling TV and Verizon FiOS are among the services that already offer special packages with a limited numbers of channels. According to comScore, Crackle has 27 million unique users per month.

High-end fashion retailer Burberry announced yesterday that it has launched a channel on the Apple Music streaming service, featuring songs and videos from Burberry’s work with British recording artists through its Burberry Acoustic program. “The deal is the first collaboration between the two companies since Apple in 2013 hired away Angela Ahrendts, then Burberry’s chief executive, to become senior vice president of retail and online stores,” reports The New York Times. Apple is also partnering with luxury retailer Hermès on special editions of the Apple Watch.

Motion Picture Domain Registry has launched a new online domain — .film — exclusive to the movie industry, with the intent to combat cyber-squatting and online piracy. “The new domain, which will only be allotted to a film’s official site, is intended to help prevent third-party copy cats and help improve online search rankings for legitimate sites,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Big Talk Productions, Highland Film Group, Nu Image/Millennium Films, Paris Film and the Film Distributors’ Association are among the first to register film domain names with the go.film site.

Ars Technica reports that the Department of Justice and the FBI seized the domain of Sharebeast.com on Friday in another victory in the ongoing war against illegal file-sharing. Sharebeast, which represented the largest U.S.-based file-sharing service — and was one of the top sites for pirated music and TV files in the UK — included related domains such as albumjams and mp3pet.com. “This is a huge win for the music community and legitimate music services,” said RIAA chair and CEO Cary Sherman. “Sharebeast operated with flagrant disregard for the rights of artists and labels while undermining the legal marketplace.”

Facebook announced that it will allow journalists to use the social network’s Mentions app, which was originally designed as a VIP service to help celebrities — including actors, musicians and professional athletes — manage their social profiles. Now, any journalist or public figure verified by Facebook will have access to the app; an expanded list of trending topics, headlines and summaries; and the ability to monitor social chatter and conduct Q&A sessions from their mobile phones. Poynter.org suggests that the “update to Mentions means that more journalists may decide to use Facebook as another avenue for reporting and engagement, thereby solidifying the social network’s place as an arbiter of news.”

Shortly after Apple CEO Tim Cook called for bringing more apps to the TV screen, a new report from Flurry notes that consumers spend more time using mobile apps than watching traditional television. “The average U.S. consumer is now spending 198 minutes per day inside apps compared to 168 minutes on TV,” TechCrunch reports. While time spent in apps is on an upswing, time with TV has not changed from Q2 2014 to Q2 2015. The report also examined consumer demand — and willingness to pay — for accessing media content in apps. Netflix, Hulu, HBO Now, Spotify and Pandora are among those performing well in this area.

Facebook’s Instagram, which now has 300 million users, is launching self-service ad buying in worldwide markets around the world, starting with more than 30 new countries. Notably, ads will now include video spots up to 30 seconds. Instagram has been slow to sell ads in fear of alienating users. In 2013, it debuted a feature for editing and uploading 15-second videos, a duration that has remained the limit for video ads. “In addition to video ads up to 30 seconds, Instagram also introduced landscape (horizontal) photo and video ads for ‘a more cinematic feel’ and delivery and optimization tools to manage campaigns across Facebook and Instagram,” reports Variety.

Hotel chain Marriott is testing its “VRoom Service” with partner Samsung at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square and the London Marriott Hotel Park Lane. The service provides hotel guests with a Samsung Gear VR headset for 24 hours, and three “VR Postcards” commissioned by Marriott. “Those videos, shot in 360-degree 3D, each follow real travelers on a different journeys, taking viewers to Chile’s Andes mountains, an ice-cream shop in Rwanda and Beijing’s bustling streets,” notes Variety. The VR Postcards, created with Framestore’s Virtual Reality Studio, will also “be available via the Samsung Milk VR video service, accessible via the Samsung Gear VR headset developed with Facebook’s Oculus VR division.”

Sources say that Twitter’s Periscope is quietly developing an app for the new Apple TV, which would allow users to watch live Periscope broadcasts on their TVs. Apple is expected to unveil its new set-top box today with an emphasis on casual games and a variety of featured apps from third-party developers, including the Periscope app. “Though we can’t confirm the exact functionality of the app, it’s likely to be focused on watching streams,” suggests TechCrunch. “Periscope made videos viewable on the Web in June without the ability to broadcast, and the Apple TV app could work similarly.”

At the recent IFA trade show in Berlin, LG demonstrated a wallpaper TV, a waved 4K TV and a double-sided OLED TV. The latter was reportedly a big hit with attendees. “The new double-sided TV measures a massive 111 inches although a closer look would reveal that it is actually made of three 65-inch Ultra HD OLED displays,” explains Tech Times. “The display, which is also called Vertically Tiling Display, resembles a room divider that has two folds.” The company also developed a 55-inch version. LG already features OLED technology in many of its curved TVs, its lines of smartwatches and the LG G Flex 2 handset.

BlackBerry announced that it plans to acquire Good Technology for $425 million. “Good was an early competitor to BlackBerry in the market for software used by corporations and governments to manage and increase security on employee smartphones,” according to The New York Times. “John S. Chen, BlackBerry’s chief executive, has made dominating that business a key component of rebuilding the company.” While some analysts see potential problems in the costs of merging the two companies’ software, others note that “Good’s technology would allow BlackBerry to improve how its software works with Android phones and Apple iPhones.”