—Tesco video: Supermarket giant Tesco is moving into the movie download market with the launch of a download service via its Tesco Digital music e-tail site featuring films and TV shows from Warner Bros and Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures Television International, among others. Now you can buy TV shows from £1.87 per episode and older films from £6.97, £10.97 for new releases. The only show confirmed so far: Warners’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Files, which will be available a day after they’ve been shown on TV, though more titles are to follow. From c21media.net.

—Broadcasters back P2P streaming plans: The European Broadcasting Union has backed plans to increase online broadcasting via P2P streaming provider Octoshape to save money and increase quality for the union’s 100 member organisations, who reach 650 million people a week. The EBU experimented with Ocoshape in 2006 during the Eurovision Song Content and reached a higher audience than ever before, prompting a public test of the technology this year featuring online audio and video content from 10 member broadcasters. Via 4RFV.com.

—MPs show BBC Local video anger: Conservative shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has written to BBC Trust chairman Michael Lyons to warn that the BBC’s £65 million plans for more local video could “kill off” local papers (via Telegraph.co.uk). “It would be a disaster, and certainly not in the public interest,” he writes. Labour MP for Carlisle Eric Martlew has jumped into the debate with an early day motion in the House of Commons which notes with concern “plans by the BBC to use money from the licence fee to fund a new service… which will threaten the viability of local and regional press”.