In a press conference earlier this morning, California based VM Labs revealed their long-under-wraps “Project X”. It is a flexible and scalable addition to future digital consumer devices, such as DVD players, digital satellite receivers, digital [...]
MGM’s release of the latest James Bond actionfest “Tomorrow Never Dies” has set a new record in intial shipment. MGM have shipped 170, 000 copies of the DVD to retailers and have still been unable to fulfill all demands, probably resulting in a [...]
Image Entertainment have announced a price reduction on many of their upcoming DVD releases, starting with their May 6 release batch. Titles included are America’s Greatest Roller Coasters, Dracula, Electric Horseman, Flash Gordon, Rolling Stones: [...]
Anchor Bay have just released information on their forthcoming slate of June and July releases… and especially their July line-up should make every horror fan drool. So, where do we start then? As we have announced at an earlier date already, [...]
Isn’t it funny? Only yesterday I published my commentary on Fox’s and Paramount’s hold-out on the DVD platform and imagine what comes in first things this morning? A press-release from Paramount stating that they have finally committed to DVD. Yes [...]
Something really interesting showed up on the Internet Usenet group this morning. Someone posted screenshots from what looks like a DVD version of “Independence Day”. Now, the interesting thing about this is that “ID4” is a Fox Home Video release [...]
DVD was receiving a big boost today by NetFlix, which is supposed to finally take the last barrier to the widespread adoption of the DVD platform. In a press conference organized by “Bender, Goldman & Helper”, Mark Randolph, CEO of a young [...]
Warner Home Video are currently preparing a DVD Rental Program for all their distributed labels, including MGM Home Enter- tainment, New Line Home Video and HBO Home Video. This counter-attack to DIVX’s planned rollout later this year should help to [...]
Amazing Fantasy Entertainment have announced their next slate of DVD releases, due somewhen during May/June. We will announce exact release dates as soon as they become available. The release schedule contains the following Full Moon titles Head Of The [...]
Here’s the story as reported by the Hollywood Reporter 10/6/97. Amblin balks on DVD; “Jurassic” lost to format While most studios have been falling in the DVD line lately, Amblin Entertainment has taken a step back just as Universal Studios Home [...]
