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Andrew Lloyd Webber comes to DVD

July 12, 2001 // 0 Comments

Fans of the works of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber will be pleased when Universal Studios Home Video releases the live concert Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Royal Albert Hall Celebration and a new Ultimate Edition DVD of the celebrated musical Cats. The Royal [...]

Final specs are in on The Simpsons

July 12, 2001 // 0 Comments

The announcement that televisions longest running sitcom, The Simpsons was coming to DVD, included a long but somewhat vague list of special features. Now Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has released detailed information on the upcoming Season [...]

Sonic Solutions now sold one million desktop DVD authoring apps

July 12, 2001 // 0 Comments

Sonic Solutions (Nasdaq:SNIC) announced today that sales of Sonic’s desktop DVD publishing applications DVDit! and MyDVD have topped the one million unit mark, coming less than three months after they reached the 500,000 mark. The latest million-unit [...]

New information on Disney’s Oliver & Company

July 11, 2001 // 0 Comments

Originally announced as part of the Disney Gold Collection and then placed on indefinite postponement, the 1988 animated feature has been waiting for a new release date from Disney. Although no new street date has been announced yet, new updates are [...]

Columbia TriStar presents Memento

July 11, 2001 // 0 Comments

Director Christopher Nolan weaves an intricate and unique story in Memento. The director’s sophomore outing unravels the story in short segments shown in reverse order. The resulting mystery keeps not only the hero, but the audience searching for [...]

James Bond gets an interesting new look

July 10, 2001 // 0 Comments

The Special Editions of the James Bond films are arguably the most successful DVD from MGM Home Entertainment. Now Baker & Taylor, a distributor of MGM discs has penned a deal with the collectible toy company Corgi Classics to repackage the DVDs in [...]

Artisan re-examines Basic Instinct

July 10, 2001 // 0 Comments

The national rollout of DVD in September of 1997 included Paul Verhoeven’s dark thriller Basic Instinct. Like many of the early DVD releases, the disc was lacking in extras and video quality, but Artisan Entertainment has decided to spruce up the film [...]

Kodak and LSI Logic bring digital photography to DVD

July 10, 2001 // 0 Comments

Eastman Kodak Company and LSI Logic Corporation today announced an agreement to promote new capabilities that will enable photo-sharing through television sets using DVD players. Together, Kodak and LSI Logic will offer consumers another way to further [...]

Two wartime epics from Universal

July 9, 2001 // 0 Comments

Universal Home Video salutes America’s World War II soldiers with two classic war films on DVD. MacArthur and a Collector’s Edition of Midway are both coming to disc in October. “MacArthur” relates the extraordinary account of General Douglas [...]

Pioneer launches new DVD-based navigational system for cars

July 9, 2001 // 0 Comments

Pioneer Electronics (NYSE: PIO) today announced the launch of the AVIC-9DVD, the company’s first DVD-based navigation system for the U.S. and Canada. The DVD-based navigation system has exclusive features such as real-time traffic information and DVD [...]
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