Articles by Guido Henkel
The Prisoner is finally coming to DVD
Fans of great television will be very happy come Halloween. A&E Home Video is releasing the first 3 episodes of the well-ahead-of-its-time British TV show, The Prisoner to DVD in October. An innovative show starring Patrick McGoohan, “The [...]
Some Classics from the East set for release in October
First up is a genuine classic from one of the greatest masters of cinema, Akira Kurosawa. Image Entertainment brings us Dersu Uzala (1974). Set against a backdrop of the treacherous mountains, rivers and icy plains of the Siberian wilderness, Kurosawa [...]
The Matrix DVD First Ever To Sell Three Million
Warner Home Video announced today that their DVD version of the Oscar®-winning smash-hit movie, The Matrix has exceeded the three million mark in units sold in the U.S., solidifying its position as the #1 best-selling DVD of all time. At the first annual [...]
Gettysburg is finally making its DVD debut later this year!
DVD fans have been waiting for the release of Gettysburg since the first day if the medium’s introduction. Given the movie’s length of 254 minutes, DVD seemed the perfect format to release this epic film about the Civil War, but it never appeared on [...]
The DVD cracking lawsuit now also makes T-Shirts its target
Copyleft, the maker of a T-shirt displaying code to a DVD-cracking program, has just been added to the high-profile piracy lawsuit surrounding the cracking of DVD’s CSS protection encryption. The retailer who has printed the source code for a DVD [...]
The Sound Of Music
It has made its way into the hearts of millions and generations cherish the beauty and the music of Robert Wise’s film adaptation of "The Sound Of Music." Winner of five Academy Awards, this movie is the inspiring tale of the Von Trapp family [...]
More skeletons from the DVD closet for Halloween
Fans of horror films have a lot to be excited about as this is shaping up to be one horrific Halloween for new DVD releases. On the heels of yesterday’s news about Rosemary’s Baby (which many of us are drooling over), comes a graveyard full of new [...]
Panasonic prepares frist combined DVD-Audio/Video player for release
Affirming its commitment to this new and exciting audio medium, Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company has started shipping the Panasonic DVD-A7 DVD-Audio/Video player beginning in July. This player, in addition to the new Technics DVD-A10 DVD-Audio/Video [...]
Steel Magnolias
’Steel Magnolias’ is the touching and funny story of a group of women in a Louisiana small town. Over a period of time we become part of their lives and share their hopes, dreams and miseries with them, as their stories unfolds in the local beauty [...]