Articles by Guido Henkel

Key 1980s film, The Stunt Man, comes to DVD in late 2001

September 25, 2000 // 0 Comments

Anchor Bay Entertainment has announced a recent acquisition that has been sought after by many fans. Long considered to be one of the best films of the 1980s, The Stunt Man will make its way to DVD in late 2001. Directed by Richard Rush and starring Steve [...]

175 million DVD-capable machines will be in homes by 2004

September 25, 2000 // 0 Comments

DVD continues to amaze. ‘Not in our wildest dreams’ did anyone expect the format to accelerate ‘from zero to 60 in about three years, ’ said International Recording Media Association president Charles Van Horn, introducing IRMA’s latest [...]

Sonic and Verance join to deliver DVD-Audio and EMD Watermarking

September 25, 2000 // 0 Comments

Here’s a quick follow-up on our report this past Friday regarding Sonic Solutions and DVD-Audio: Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ:SNIC) and Verance Corporation announced today at the Audio Engineering Society (AES) convention in Los Angeles a strategic [...]

Santa Claus: The Movie

September 25, 2000 // 0 Comments

On Anchor Bay Entertainment’s release of the Dudley Moore comedy “Santa Claus: The Movie” some additional hidden footage is hidden. From the disc’s main menu, select the “Extras, ” which will take you to the menu with the special features on [...]

A Nightmare Before Christmas comes in DTS

September 22, 2000 // 0 Comments

To our surprise we just found out that Buena Vista Home Entertainment’s upcoming Special Edition release of Tim Burton’s A Nightmare Before Christmas will actually feature a DTS audio track alongside the previously announced 5.1 channel Dolby Digital [...]

Some changes in release dates from Anchor Bay

September 22, 2000 // 0 Comments

The folks at Anchor Bay Entertainment have posted some changes to the street dates on several of their upcoming releases. So, to keep many of you from howling in frustration when those goody boxes don’t arrive at your door when expected, we’ve posted [...]

Analog’s new chip decodes all sound formats

September 22, 2000 // 0 Comments

Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI) today announced the industry’s first single-chip decoder/post-processor for THX(R) Surround EX(TM), DTS(R)-ES Extended Surround(TM) and Dolby(R) Digital. The new Melody(TM) decoder post-processes THX Surround EX on the [...]

Sonic announces support for final specification of DVD-Audio

September 22, 2000 // 0 Comments

Sonic Solutions (Nasdaq:SNIC) announced today at the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention its plans to offer support for the final version of the new DVD-Audio specification, Version 1.2. Using the new capabilities defined by the expanded [...]

Jurassic Park

September 22, 2000 // 0 Comments

Has it really been 7 years already? I remember it like yesterday. Hyped up by the buzz about the movie and everything I had read about its incredible special effects, I walked into my local movie theater to watch "Jurassic Park" for the very [...]

Charlie’s Angels: Angels Under Cover

September 22, 2000 // 0 Comments

Just as the new feature film remake of the series is slowly gathering momentum for its theatrical premiere, Columbia TriStar Home Video is releasing two episodes from the original TV series ’Charlie’s Angels’ on DVD. The DVD contains ’To Kill An [...]
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