Sony has announced three new series of SD cards to hold your many pics. The budget Essential Series comes in 2, 4, and 8GB capacities, with Class 4 (4MB/s) speeds. There’s also the Class 4 Experience Series, which adds 16 and 32GB models.

The third new offering is the Class 10 Expert Series in 8, 16, and 32GB capacities. This one offers high bitrate HD recording. All ship in January, but sadly we don’t have any info on pricing yet for these.

AT&T workers in stores have said that Microsoft is currently working on a fix to stabilize the whole microSD memory card slot reliability issue. AT&T employees have been told not install microSD memory cards in Samsung Focus phones until further notice. Meaning, until a fix is available.

They also advise customers not to upgrade the phones themselves. We have no idea when this “fix” will arrive, but some have gone ahead and successfully installed new memory cards themselves.

Blockbuster has a new program that will load DRM’d movie rentals onto an SD card from a kiosk. Let’s say that you’re at the airport, or some mall. You want to rent a movie. Apparently you just format a spare SD card (because it doesn’t look like they give you a card), put it in the machine, select a movie, pay about $4. Then you have the movie on your card with DRM.

Are they serious? An SD card won’t play on iPhones and Blackberrys. Now Mini SD and Micro SD, sure. Most mobile devices will take them. I guess it works for netbook and laptop users, but that’s about it. How about more options?

So sorry Asia, North America, but this set is only headed for the European market. At least for now. But at least it’s on it’s way somewhere thanks to Cello Electronics, who has issued the first HDTV that records OTA (Freeview) content directly to an SD card. That should make it much easier for users to shuffle around their recorded content to portable players.

The set features twin TV tuners, a built-in EPG, split-screen functionality and an integrated DVD player. It come in 22-, 26- and 32-inch varieties. It delivers just 1,440 x 900 pixels and no HDMI socket and is available starting next month for £399.99 ($661) or £469.99 ($777).

At long last Nintendo is finally doing something about storage. Finally. You can back up titles to SD and now games can be played straight from the cards. The SD Card Menu can be accessed from the Wii System Menu 4.0. That’s the new update that we are getting right now.

It lets the Wii work with memory cards larger than 2GB, maxing out at 32GB. Nintendo is also launching the new Virtual Console Arcade, that gives you all the old arcade titles on the Wii.