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 [...]
A lot of information is coming down the news wires today, regarding the DeCSS utility that circumvents the encoding on DVDs that was supposed to prevent illegal copying of the discs. The reason is a major lawsuit that was filed by a coalition of parties, [...]
Backing up their announcement to take most of their animated movies of moratorium, Disney Home Video just unveiled their release plans for these films during the coming year. As we had announced earlier, Toy Story will mark the debut of the studio’s new [...]
Spatializer Audio Laboratories announced today that Marantz has incorporated Spatializer N-2-2(TM) into its new line of DVD players. Three models, DV-4000, DV-7000 and DV-18 will begin shipping worldwide in the first quarter 2000. This design win [...]
Roger Ebert and guest critic Janet Maslin announce their Top Ten Movie Favorites Of The Year On “Roger Ebert & The Movies” that airs on the week of January 1-2, 2000. The nation’s two best-known film critics give their individual picks for the [...]
Although we currently do not update our release schedules and the Film Vault due to the holidays, we have received a number of title announcements from Paramount Home Video that we find worth mentioning here. On February 15, Paramount Home Video will [...]
We also just got some new title announcements from VCI Home Video in today that you may find interesting. On February 22, VCI will release Sacco and Vanzetti, day and date with its VHS release, starring Milo O’Shea, Cyril Cusack, Geoffrey Keen, William [...]
InterVideo announced today that its software DVD player, WinDVD, had passed Microsoft’s new test requirements for a Windows Hardware Quality Labs logo for Windows 2000 on a Dell Dimension system configured with the Nvidia GeForce 256 graphics. WinDVD is [...]
Macrovision Corporation announced the filing of a registration statement for the public offering of 1, 710, 000 shares of common stock, $ 0.001 par value, of which 1,250,000 shares will be issued and sold by the Company and 460,000 shares will be sold by [...]
Bridge Publications has performed a national poll to find out more about which bad guys have left a lasting impression on moviegoers in the past. Cloaked or masked, brutally cruel or coldly cunning — from Dracula to Hannibal the Cannibal, Darth [...]
