Online retailer DVD Empire has just started a promotion for Artisan Home Entertainment’s upcoming DVD release of The Blair Witch Project. One thousand necklaces emblazoned with the logo of the indie hit will be given away free to the first 1, 000 [...]
In our relentless effort to bring you the latest on the hottest upcoming titles, today we have some menu screenshots from Anchor Bay Entertainment’s upcomng special edition of Army Of Darkness. Please click here or on the image to the left so we can [...]
Escient announced today the debut of PowerPlay, an IEEE-1394, Internet-enabled, 200-disc DVD changer and controller, that will ship in December 1999 at a suggested retail price of $5,000. PowerPlay gives users the unique ability to store, manage, and [...]
For the longest time I wanted to see "Quiz Show", a film by Robert Redford, but for some reason I never had the chance to. Until now that is, because now Buena Vista Home Video has released the film on DVD, and eagerly I decided to give this [...]
Dolby Laboratories has licensed their Dolby EX sytems to Lucasfilm’s THX division for consumer-product applications as part of LucasFilm’s THX Ultra licensing program. THX Surround EX as it is now called adds a center rear channel to the existing 5.1 [...]
In the current print issue and on the website of Replication News, the industry’s main trade publication, you can find another article by our editor Guido Henkel, called Why Game Publishers Don’t Buy Into DVD… Yet. As you certainly know, Guido [...]
VCI Home Video is pulling out some older movies for release later this year. We have just received the details about VCI/Magic Lantern’s November line-up, slated for a November 30 release. Queen Of The Stardust Ballroom is the first in the list, [...]
The race to deliver faster DVD-ROM drives on almost a monthly basis is heating up again with today’s announcement. So far we have seen a tenfold speed increase in DVD-ROM drives in roughly a year’s time, which is interesting and leaves you wondering, [...]
There is an interesting hidden feature on New Line’s Platinum Edition of “Friday”. From the disc’s main menu go to the “Special Features” and from there enter “Cast & Crew Biographies”. Select any of the actors and press the arrow up [...]
According to Japanese financial newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Sony Computer Entertainment, the same division that develops the Playstation line of products and computer games, has plans to produce digital movies as early as 2002. The newspaper states [...]