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Image is tapping deeper into classical music programming

February 25, 1999 // 0 Comments

Image To Release 50 Titles Including Performances By Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Dame Joan Sutherland And The World’s Pre-eminent Classical Artists; Andre Previn’s New Opera, A Streetcar Named Desire, Also Planned For Release Image [...]

Vivid’s Erotic Dance Competition disc shoots to number 1

February 24, 1999 // 0 Comments

Vivid Interactive’s brand new Erotic Dancer World Championship release immediately soared to new heights, setting a new record for the company as the highest and fastest selling disc in their entire catalog, and with all their current releases, Vivid [...]

Pioneer Entertainment to hold public warehouse sale

February 23, 1999 // 0 Comments

For all of you out there, still owning laserdiscs with the intention to by some more, here’s some great news from Pioneer Entertainment. On Saturday and Sunday, February 27th and 28th from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Pioneer opens the doors to its [...]

Disney Home Video becomes quite active in Europe

February 22, 1999 // 0 Comments

Disney Home Video is obviously becoming quite active in the European market, releasing its direct-to-video animated features on a monthly basis. Although these direct-to-video titles are not of the same quality as the original films that spawned them, [...]

Universal and Columbia join for international DVD distribution

February 22, 1999 // 0 Comments

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Feb. 22 — Columbia TriStar Home Video (CTHV) and Universal Studios Home Video (USHV)today jointly announced the signing of a DVD distribution agreement outside North America for USHV DVD product. The agreement between USHV [...]

Film critic Gene Siskel dies at age 53

February 21, 1999 // 0 Comments

As many of you have probably heard on the news already, film critic Gene Siskel died on Saturday at the age of 53 as a result of complications of a brain surgery he underwent earlier last year. Siskel was part of the film critic team “Siskel & [...]

Sterling Home Entertainment saddles up with Gunfighter

February 19, 1999 // 0 Comments

Francis Ford Coppola’s powerful western drama Gunfighter will make it to DVD on March 16. Directed by Coppola’s son Christopher, “Gunfighter” stars Martin Sheen, Robert Carradine and Clu Gulager, in a story about a down-on-his-luck singer arriving [...]

Can’t find the photo gallery on “Vampires”? Here’s why…

February 18, 1999 // 0 Comments

On the packaging of John Carpenter’s “Vampires” it says the release contains a photo gallery as a supplement. Many of you have since tried to find the gallery on the disc and asked us for help. Well, look no further; the gallery is not there. We [...]

Big Entertainment to offer over 1000 Star Wars products

February 18, 1999 // 0 Comments

BOCA RATON, Fla., Feb. 18 — bige.com, a division of Big Entertainment (Nasdaq: BIGE), announced today that its e-commerce Web site will be offering over 1,000 Star Wars(TM) products as well as a unique, browsable exclusive Star Wars database. In [...]

Anti-shoplifting device introduced for DVD

February 17, 1999 // 0 Comments

Our friends over at the DVD File have an interesting snippet about security tags for DVD, which will help retailers to reduce shoplifting of their articles. Like the electronic tags used for CDs, videos and computer games, these tags will now be utilized [...]
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