Enjoying even greater sales than expected in the all-important fourth quarter, DVD-Video was hailed as the most successful consumer electronics product launch ever. Figures compiled by the DVD Entertainment Group (formerly DVD Video Group) based on retail [...]
Acorn Media has just announced two new titles for release from the popular television series Agatha Christie’s Poirot on February 1. Starring David suchet as Hercule Poirot, the most watched detective in the history of PBS’ Mystery! series, [...]
Apogee Technology, Inc. today announced all-digital amplifier technology and introduction of new digital amplifier products that will enable manufacturers to integrate multi-channel audio power into a wide range of consumer electronics and computer [...]
Discovision Associates has developed a new DVD changer design that could potentially replace currently existing technology. Users will enjoy faster more convenient disc selection and playback through this innovation. Kenny Masaki, Discovision [...]
Image Entertainment, Inc. today announced that it has partnered with leading DVD retailer Best Buy Co., Inc. Together, they will offer DVD hardware purchasers a free copy of Eagles: Hell Freezes Over. The Best Buy promotion is scheduled to run from [...]
InfoTech reported today the total number of DVD-Video households worldwide reached 8.5 million in 1999, an increase of 247% over 1998. The Norwich, Vermont-based media forecasting firm also determined worldwide DVD-Video title sales and rental revenue in [...]
On March 7, 2000, Columbia TriStar Home Video will release Chinese director Wu Tianming’s award-winning masterpiece The King Of Masks on DVD. Winner of more than forty honors from film festivals around the world, the film stars Chu Yuk, Chao Yim Yin and [...]
For months we have been following Anchor Bay’s negotiations to license Lucio Fulci’s Zombie epos The Beyond for release on home video here in the US. Finally the negotiations are over and Anchor Bay has the rights to the film for release on VHS and [...]
As the battle about the DVD decryption utility DeCSS rages on, according to an article from the Associated Press, a judge last week denied an electronics industry group’s bid to temporarily halt distribution of software that removes security encryption [...]
On February 29, MGM Home Entertainment will release their horror thriller Stigmata day and date on VHS and DVD. The movie, starring Patricia Arquette, Jonathan Pryce and Gabriel Byrne is the story of a young woman who becomes the focus of brutal assaults [...]
