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Sony expands line of DVD players featuring SACD playback

May 22, 2001 // 0 Comments

Sony Electronics announced plans to bring multichannel Super Audio CD (SACD) playback, along with progressive output, to a new, more attractively-priced DVD-Video player. The new model, DVP-NS900V, will be introduced this fall for about $1,000 and leads [...]

Steve Gustafson heads new DVD division at Cinesite

May 22, 2001 // 0 Comments

Many of you may still remember Steve Gustafson as the producer responsible for such glorious DVD releases as “Saving Private Ryan”, “The Prince Of Egypt” and many others while he was working for Dreamworks, before he went to head the DVD division [...]

Good news for everyone who’s Waiting for Guffman

May 21, 2001 // 0 Comments

With two feature laden versions of “Spinal Tap” and the recent release of “Best in Show”, the notable hole in any Christopher Guest library is the 1996 comedy Waiting for Guffman. Fortunatly, Warner Brothers Home Video has decided to release the [...]

Dean Martin graces DVD in That’s Amore

May 21, 2001 // 0 Comments

Dean Martin, one of the seminal actor/singers of the 1960’s was perhaps best known to many through his successful NBC television series “The Dean Martin Show”. Next month Capitol Records will release over twenty classic performances from the long [...]

Forrest Gump finally arrives on DVD

May 21, 2001 // 0 Comments

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1994, and named by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest films of all time, few films have been more requested than Robert Zemeckis’ classic Forrest Gump, and few are more deserving. [...]

Convenient television DVD Recording comes to the PC

May 18, 2001 // 0 Comments

As DVD-R drives have become more readily available in the U.S. several software solutions have popped up for recording digital video to DVD from digital video cameras, memory sticks and other digital sources. None of these solutions provided a convenient [...]

The Trumpet of the Swan makes a rapid transition to DVD

May 17, 2001 // 0 Comments

After being in theaters for less than one week, Columbia TriStar Home Video has announced the DVD release of the animated fantasy The Trumpet of the Swan this July. Louie is a mute young swan who takes extraordinary steps to find his own voice. Leaving [...]

Columbia TriStar invites you to Hanover Street

May 17, 2001 // 0 Comments

Joining the many other good films coming to DVD this July, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment will present the Harrison Ford adventure, 1979’s Hanover Street. During the Second World War, an American pilot (Harrison Ford) stationed in England meets a [...]
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