Samsung and Panasonic are opening new doors for content providers to make HDTV more attractive in the future. Samsung for example will help broadcasters financially to convert content to the 1080i HDTV format and as a result many of the movies that will [...]
Retail prices for DVD players have come down dramatically over the past months and the trend is continuing. It will help make DVD increasingly appealing to mainstream audiences who are used to buy their consumer electronic equipment below a $200 [...]
Paramount Home Video has just started shipping James Cameron’s Titanic on DVD to retailers. The disc has now set a record for the highest shipping units in the history of the format – whatever that record is worth for. More than 1 million units [...]
Anchor Bay Entertainment just unveiled a large number of titles they have loosely scheduled for release within the next 12 months. Many of these titles have been listed here before, but new ones just came up, so let’s go over some of the highlights [...]
We have been able to dig up some images from the packaging of Warner Home Video’s highly anticpated The Matrix. Take a look at the back of the packaging, as well as all the fold-out flaps on the inside with us. Warner’s special edition of the film [...]
DV Studio Technologies announced today that the award-winning Panasonic LF-D101 DVD-RAM Drive is now available in the Apollo Expert Archiver(TM), DV Studio’s complete solution for archiving VHS and other video standards onto DVD discs. The Apollo Expert [...]
Warner Home Video is preparing a number of titles for release on October 12. Although some sources claim Shawshank Redemption would finally be part of this October 12 line-up, the title still has some issues and may once again find a delay. There are a [...]
The Disk Products Division (DPD) of Toshiba America Electronic Components, Monday announced the industry’s fastest CD-ROM drive in the 12.7mm form factor, the XM-7102. This product delivers advanced transfer rates, of up to 32x, to mainstream portable [...]
Fox Lorber has consolidated its operations and as a result changed the name for all its divisions and companies to avoid confusion and to create a stronger corporate identity. “Fox Lorber Home Video” is now WinStar Home Video, “Fox Lorber [...]
New Line Home Video’s The Corruptor is hitting DVD hard on September 14. It is a gritty cop thriller where a group of agents in the Chinatown district have to deal with the dangers of their everyday lives on the streets among gangs and mobsters. [...]
