Apple has introduced iDVD, a new application that lets consumers create professional looking DVDs for playback on consumer DVD players and DVD Studio Pro, the first full-featured DVD authoring tool available for less than $1,000. iDVD comes preinstalled [...]
On the heals of the announcement that MGM will re re-issuing Rocky in a special edition, the studio has announced a boxed set of the famous pug’s exploits to be released on the same day. The Rocky Gift Set features all five of the ‘Rocky’ movies in [...]
Is anyone else still as amazed by Jackie Chan as I am? You don’t have to be a fan of martial arts films to appreciate that a 46 year-old man can still throw his body around as though he didn’t have a care in the world. Amazing. Oh, yeah, and now [...]
Prepare to sweat it out again in the depths, but this time without getting up to turn the disc: Columbia TriStar Home Video is preparing to re-release director Wolfgang Petersen’s submarine epic Das Boot. This disc will replace the old ‘flipper’ [...]
The hot new release of John Woo’s actioner A Better Tomorrow from Anchor Bay Entertainment has been stopped in its tracks before it really made it to the retail shelves. As it turns out, the disc contains a defective Cantonese audio track, which not [...]
Stream Machine announced the Duo Reference Design, a complete full-duplex audio and video platform that combines the MPEG-2 video and audio recording technology of Stream Machine with the DVD decoding of National Semiconductor’s Mediamatics [...]
Monty Python fans and fans of The Beatles (those with a sense of humor, anyway) will definitely enjoy the news that Rhino is preparing the February DVD release of The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978). Made for television in 1978, ‘The Rutles’ is a [...]
In the midst of the coming barrage of catalog films from the major studios (we use the word ‘barrage’ as a good thing, by the way), some titles might get lost in the shuffle, so we thought we’d do our part to point up some of the more interesting. [...]
This may be a bit left of field, but since most readers have at least a passing knowledge of the film (to say the least), this should be interesting: United Internet Technologies, Inc. (UIT), a subsidiary of United Leisure Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: [...]
Warner Home Video is putting the finishing touches on the soon-to-be-released DVD, Paul Simon: ‘You’re The One’ In Concert From Paris. Among the most popular artists and greatest songwriters of our time (that may be from the press release, but who [...]
