Escient announced today the debut of PowerPlay, an IEEE-1394, Internet-enabled, 200-disc DVD changer and controller, that will ship in December 1999 at a suggested retail price of $5,000. PowerPlay gives users the unique ability to store, manage, and [...]
In our relentless effort to bring you the latest on the hottest upcoming titles, today we have some menu screenshots from Anchor Bay Entertainment’s upcomng special edition of Army Of Darkness. Please click here or on the image to the left so we can [...]
Online retailer DVD Empire has just started a promotion for Artisan Home Entertainment’s upcoming DVD release of The Blair Witch Project. One thousand necklaces emblazoned with the logo of the indie hit will be given away free to the first 1, 000 [...]
The race to deliver faster DVD-ROM drives on almost a monthly basis is heating up again with today’s announcement. So far we have seen a tenfold speed increase in DVD-ROM drives in roughly a year’s time, which is interesting and leaves you wondering, [...]
VCI Home Video is pulling out some older movies for release later this year. We have just received the details about VCI/Magic Lantern’s November line-up, slated for a November 30 release. Queen Of The Stardust Ballroom is the first in the list, [...]
In the current print issue and on the website of Replication News, the industry’s main trade publication, you can find another article by our editor Guido Henkel, called Why Game Publishers Don’t Buy Into DVD… Yet. As you certainly know, Guido [...]
Dolby Laboratories has licensed their Dolby EX sytems to Lucasfilm’s THX division for consumer-product applications as part of LucasFilm’s THX Ultra licensing program. THX Surround EX as it is now called adds a center rear channel to the existing 5.1 [...]
After receiving a large number of screenshots for Buena Vista’s upcoming Deluxe Edition of A Bug’s Life, we can now present the cover artwork for this exciting upcoming release. Please click on the image to the left for an enlargement of the package [...]
As the DVD market grows, more and more manuacturers pay attention to it and start adding DVD products to their catalog. Today, Princeton Graphic Systemsannounced the PVD-5000 Progressive DVD Player. The player progressively streams video from DVD, unlike [...]
On the side we always keep our eyes open for the DVD Audio format. As many of you know this format is poised to replace our common Audio CD and features multichannel surround sound capabilities among other exciting features. It is not comptabile to the [...]
