Onkyo has introduced its first DVD player with DVD-Audio capabilities. The new top-of-the-line Onkyo DV-S939 is also the company’s first DVD player with progressive scan video, and its first with the THX® Ultra certification. It plays DVD-Audio and [...]
Under pressure from confused customers, Amazon.com has decided to back away from a price test in its DVD store and give refunds to customers who paid higher prices. The test, which ran early last week, affected dozens of Amazon’s top-selling titles. Due [...]
On Amazon.com last Thursday, price savvy DVD shoppers placed dozens of orders for drastically discounted movies and box sets such as the The Beatles DVD Collector’s Set. But Seattle-based Amazon has since told customers that the prices–some were [...]
In the laudable rush to bring every film ever touched by Oliver Stone to market, Fox Home Entertainment will deliver the director’s Wall Street to DVD this November. In this riveting, behind the scenes look at big business in the 1980’s, an ambitious [...]
Sony DADC and Sony Pictures DVD Center today announced that the Sony DVD Center Europe (Sony DCE) will open September 18, 2000. Located within the DADC replication facility in Austria, Sony DCE is the first Sony DVD authoring facility in Europe and will [...]
ESS Technology (Nasdaq: ESST) announced today that the Ohana Foundation has selected the Web-DVD platform produced by its Vialta subsidiary as the hardware base for the Foundation’s innovative educational programs. Vialta’s Web-DVD Internet appliance [...]
Terran Interactive, a subsidiary of Media 100 Inc. (NASDAQ: MDEA), today announced two upgrade options for their new interactive streaming media design solution, Cleaner 5. The two new cross-platform options, Cleaner MPEG Charger and Cleaner MPEG [...]
Sonic Solutions (Nasdaq:SNIC) today introduced AutoDVD(TM), the first one-step video-to-DVD production system to incorporate professional-level video encoding. Making its debut at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), AutoDVD extends the [...]
The Mario Bava fans amongst us continue to have more reasons for celebration, as VCI Home Video is going to release two more of the Maestro’s treasures to DVD this October. First, we have the seminal Blood and Black Lace: Special Edition. The plot is [...]
At this week’s International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam, Sonic Solutions (Nasdaq: SNIC) announced DVD Creator Version 2.1.1, the latest release of the professional DVD production system. Among the many enhancements included in this [...]
