Articles by Guido Henkel

DTS Entertainment brings DVD Audio to the people in a bus tour!

February 15, 2001 // 0 Comments

DTS Entertainment, a record label that specializes in 5.1 music recordings, today announced plans to begin a nationwide bus tour to promote a new series of DVD-Audio releases and DTS 5.1 Music Discs, to a vast audience of consumers and retailers. [...]

Improved Stanley Kubrick releases are on their way

February 14, 2001 // 0 Comments

According to an article in the trade magazine Variety this morning, Warner Home Video is currently working on a re-release of their Stanley Kubrick Collection. The initial release of the Collection in the summer of 1999 was almost uniformly dissed for its [...]

Artisan Home Entertainment brings us the TV mini-series Dune

February 14, 2001 // 0 Comments

Muad’Dib is alive and kicking, and on March 20, Artisan Home Entertainment will release the TV mini-series Dune, based on Frank Herbert’s classic novels. After its successful television debut on the SciFi channel recently, the 5-hour mini epic is now [...]

Universal Home Video releases the shark once again in Jaws 2

February 14, 2001 // 0 Comments

We have just received information that Universal Home Video will finally release the sequel to Steven Spielberg’s horror masterpiece “Jaws” on May 22. Jaws 2, once again starring Roy Scheider as Chief Brody and Lorraine Gary as his wife, will make [...]

Dream Theater goes live on DVD with Metropolis 2000

February 14, 2001 // 0 Comments

We have just received word that the progressive hard rock band Dream Theater will be releasing the live video Metropolis 2000: Scenes From New York on DVD on March 20. Directed by the band’s drummer Mike Portnoy, the DVD will feature the album “Scenes [...]

Rowan Atkinson comes to DVD as Blackadder

February 13, 2001 // 0 Comments

Warner Home Video has just unveiled details about a release of the British comedy series Blackadder starring the inimitable Rowan Atkinson. On five separate DVDs, or as a complete Collector’s Set, “Blackadder” will split your sides on May 15. Many [...]

Traffic to hit DVD in June from USA Home Entertainment

February 13, 2001 // 0 Comments

With Oscar-buzz for the film running gaga, USA Home Entertainment has just scheduled Steven Soderbergh’s latest action thriller Traffic for release on June 19. A high-ranking judge with a vendetta against drugs learns his own daughter is a cocaine [...]

Criterion Collection announces a Special Edition of Spartacus

February 12, 2001 // 0 Comments

This morning, the full details about a Special Edition of Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 monumental epic Spartacus have been announced. Coming through Criterion Collection, a new 2-disc set is now scheduled for release on April 24. In “Spartacus,” Stanley [...]

Sonic DVDit! wins Best Product of the Year Award

February 12, 2001 // 0 Comments

Sonic Solutions announced today that its Sonic DVDit! DVD publishing application has received Videomaker Magazine’s 2000 Product of the Year Award in the Best CD/DVD Authoring Software category. The product is featured in the special awards section of [...]
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