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Columbia TriStar ends the year with three additional titles

October 21, 1999 // 0 Comments

Columbia TriStar Home Video just sent some additional information for their December 28 titles this way, for us to share with you. To close out the year, Columbia will release Desert Blue day and date with the VHS video. It is set in the off-beat [...]

Another THX EX DVD title emerges – The Haunting

October 21, 1999 // 0 Comments

Although initially not planned that way, Dreamworks Home Video has decided to release the upcoming The Haunting with a THX EX encoded Dolby Digital soundtrack. We reported earlier. “Since it is already encoded in the audio stream of the Dolby Digital [...]

A new mid-range DVD authoring house emerges, called DVDAuthors.com

October 20, 1999 // 0 Comments

DVDauthors.com and its parent company EagleVision, Inc., a sixteen-year veteran of the New York metropolitan area television production industry, has selected DVDMaestro from Spruce Technologies as the foundation of its DVD authoring business. The company [...]

Hollywood Plus video card now comes with DTS audio capabilities

October 20, 1999 // 0 Comments

Sigma Designs®, Inc. today released DTS Digital Surround audio support, REALmagic Remote wireless remote control, and Microsoft® Windows® 2000 beta drivers for its award-winning REALmagic® Hollywood Plus(TM) DVD/MPEG-2 decoder card. DTS Digital [...]

Video City prepares aggressive, nation-wide DVD roll-out

October 20, 1999 // 0 Comments

Video City, Inc. announced plans for an aggressive roll-out of DVD products for sale and rental. Video City will offer chain-wide selections of 500-1, 200 rental units in its stores by November 1999. The move is being made following explosive growth in [...]

Meet the directors of The Blair Witch Project at Hollywood Video

October 19, 1999 // 0 Comments

Hollywood Video is holding a video premiere party in their Los Angeles store this week and have asked the directors of The Blair Witch Project, Daniel Myrich and Eduardo Sanchez, to participate. All the questions fans have been dying to ask will be [...]

The All-In-One Drive is coming from Ricoh

October 18, 1999 // 0 Comments

Ricoh Corporation’s Disc Media and Systems Center division today announced a relatively low-cost combination drive that will combine DVD-ROM technology with three CD technologiesin one drive. Ricoh calls it the four in one power technology. The [...]

Space Ace gets a long awaited fix

October 18, 1999 // 0 Comments

Digital Leisure, the company behind DVD releases like Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace just informed us that Toshiba has finally addressed the problems in their 2109 and 3109 models that stopped “Space Ace” from working. Apparently all units shipped [...]
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