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Cruise and Woo make the Impossible possible in November

August 24, 2000 // 0 Comments

Paramount Pictures is getting set to release its most ambitious DVD to date with Mission: Impossible 2 in November. The DVD boasts the most special features ever for a Paramount title. The studio has been among the slowest to fully embrace the DVD [...]

Leitch sponsors award for SMPTE

August 23, 2000 // 0 Comments

Leitch Technology Corporation – a provider of high-quality digital video and audio solutions to the broadcasting, telecommunications, cable and Internet industries – announced that the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) [...]

DDD reaches sky high for giant screen 3D

August 23, 2000 // 0 Comments

Dynamic Digital Depth Inc. (CDNX: DDE) and Sky High Entertainment have joined forces to distribute giant screen 3D movies to Windows and Macintosh PC users via the Internet, CD and DVD-ROM. The trailer for Sky High’s latest giant screen 3D production, [...]

Columbia brings classic Hayworth to DVD in November

August 23, 2000 // 0 Comments

The folks at Columbia/Tristar are sure to please many fans of classic film by bringing the Rita Hayworth classic Gilda to DVD this November. Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) is saved from a gunman by [...]

Here are the details on The Patriot Special Edition DVD

August 22, 2000 // 0 Comments

Last week we announced the October 24th release of Mel Gibson’s The Patriot. Well, as we promised, here are the full details about this highly anticipated DVD from Columbia/Tristar, as well as some new cover art! For anyone who missed it, ‘The [...]

CyberLink announces first pure software DVD player for Linux

August 22, 2000 // 0 Comments

CyberLink, a leading software developer of video and audio software applications, showed its support for the Linux community by announcing it is releasing the world’s first pure software DVD player, for Linux-based information appliances (IAs). [...]

Erin Brockovich first DVD with female star to ship one million

August 22, 2000 // 0 Comments

Universal Studios Home Video announced today that the Erin Brockovich DVD has reached the coveted mark of one million units shipped, representing a new breakthrough in the DVD market and drama genre. ‘This is a major milestone in the industry on several [...]

Piranha, Inc. demonstrates full-length movie on a single CD-ROM

August 21, 2000 // 0 Comments

Until now, high quality encoded theatrical movies could only be viewed on a computer desktop using DVD technology. Piranha, Inc. CEO Ed Sample demonstrated the first Piranha Stream™ CD-ROM that contained a high quality RKO Pictures 90-minute theatrical [...]
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