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Holiday gifts directly from Francis Ford Coppola

December 8, 1999 // 0 Comments

Francis Ford Coppola, five-time Academy Award-winning writer/director and winemaker, is turning his creative talents to the Internet this holiday season. His Napa Valley winery, Niebaum-Coppola, has launched a new Web site that presents a triple bill of [...]

Get free DVDs or $20 off from Disney in their latest promotion

December 8, 1999 // 0 Comments

For some time already, Disney is running a promotion that could get you two free DVDs if you buy all nine animated classics on DVD, or get one free DVD if you collect five of their animated classics on DVD. You can find out more abouit the promotion o [...]

Columbia TriStar will infest your home with Bats in February

December 8, 1999 // 0 Comments

We have just received some additional information for one of Columbia TriStar Home Video’s upcoming releases that we want to share with you. On February 22, Bats will settle in your living room en masse, in a great special edition of this recent horror [...]

Henninger produced a new documentary about historic air warfare

December 8, 1999 // 0 Comments

Henninger Productions and Henninger Interactive Media, the production and multimedia arms of the Henninger Media Services network, have produced a new documentary on DVD called Top Gun Academy: The Real Story that traces the history of air warfare from [...]

Macrovision and Palm Pictures sign copy protection agreement

December 8, 1999 // 0 Comments

Macrovision Corporation announced today that Palm Pictures, has signed a new one-year agreement copy protecting 100% of all of its DVD and VHS titles. Macrovision’s DVD copy protection is designed to prevent unauthorized copying of DVD programming to [...]

Samsung includes NUON chip in new DVD player models

December 8, 1999 // 0 Comments

VM Labs and Samsung Electronics America announced today that Samsung would incorporate NUON media processing technology in a new DVD player. Samsung’s DVD-N2000 uses this new technology to enable advanced interactive features and dramatically enhance [...]

Holiday Sales break DVD Empire daily record

December 7, 1999 // 0 Comments

Online holiday sales of DVDs are setting new daily sales records at DVD Empire, according to company president Jeff Rix. On Monday, November 29, the first business day following the Thanksgiving weekend, the online retailer reports an astonishing 2,327 [...]

Own a piece of The Dark Crystal through a Sotheby’s auction

December 7, 1999 // 0 Comments

The Jim Henson Company will donate an original Maquette from The Dark Crystal for auction at Sotheby’s “An Evening in Lhasa” on December 7, 1999, in New York. The Maquette, which is signed at the base by renowned British fantasy artist Brian Froud, [...]

DVD Express prepares merger with Maximum Holdings

December 6, 1999 // 0 Comments

After reverting their plans to go public last year, CNet today reports on new plans of the company to raise money. According to this article, DVD Express is planning to merge with Maximum Holdings, a builder of video game portals. The deal is expected to [...]

Ricoh will soon be shipping its CD-R/RW/DVD-ROM Combo

December 6, 1999 // 0 Comments

Ricoh Corporation’s Disc Media and Systems Center division announced shipping for its new four-in-one, CD-R/RW/DVD-ROM combo drive. The company anticipates widespread retail availability by the end of January 2000. Called the MediaMaster MP9060A, the [...]
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