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LifeClips brings DVD technology to home-video

May 16, 2001 // 0 Comments

Of all the movies we’ve reported coming to DVD, none may be as interesting to some as the newest announcement from the LifeClips company – your own home movies. Im the same vane as having photographs developed on CD-ROM, LifeClips copies home [...]

AFI announces plans for 100 Thrills

May 16, 2001 // 0 Comments

After the American Film Institute’s successes with “100 Years – 100 Movies” and the subsequent specials focusing on “100 Stars” and “100 Laughs”, the organization will be presenting its forth special next month, “100 Years – [...]

Jeff Goldblum is Beyond Suspicion

May 15, 2001 // 0 Comments

This July, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment presents the DVD debut of the suspenseful thriller Beyond Suspicion starring Jeff Goldblum and Anne Heche. Jeff Goldblum stars as John Nolan, an insurance salesman who leads a humdrum existence. His life [...]

20th Century Fox unleashes the hilarious Monkeybone

May 15, 2001 // 0 Comments

Combining Live Action, Stop Motion And Computer Graphic Animation, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment imaginative film Monkeybone, from the creators of “A Nightmare Before Christmas,” will make its way to DVD later this summer. Brendan Fraser goes [...]

DTS unveils new compression scheme

May 14, 2001 // 0 Comments

DTS has announced an extension of its audio compression scheme that will be implemented on DVD-Video and DVD-Audio discs in the near future. The new scheme will allow for encoding of audio information at a rate of 96 kHz/24 bits on 5.1 channel [...]

So Long and Thanks For All the Fish!

May 14, 2001 // 0 Comments

Douglas Adams, the well respected author of the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” passed away suddenly in his home in California over the weekend. He was only forty-nine years old. Although the author of several novels, Adams is best known for his [...]

Bruce Lee films get individual releases from 20th Century Fox

May 11, 2001 // 0 Comments

Four of the legendary martial arts master Bruce Lee’s most popular films; Fists of Fury, Return of the Dragon, Chinese Connection, and Game of Death have only been available from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment as part of a rather expensive box set. [...]

The Fog delayed – but for good reason!

May 11, 2001 // 0 Comments

Eagerly awaited, MGM Home Entertainment had plans to release John Carpenter’s atmospheric masterpiece The Fog this fall as part of their Halloween line-up. With most of the announcements for this line-up in, this title was conspicuously absent from [...]
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