The latest home entertainment technology news, including high-definition DVD players, portable digital video, mobile content, video-enabled cell phones and next-generation videogame consoles.
Microsoft stops HD DVD player manufacturing By Danny King - 02/26/2008 FEB. 26 | Microsoft said it will stop making HD DVD players for its Xbox 360 consoles a week after Toshiba said it would discontinue the next-generation DVD format. Microsoft also cut the price of the add-on by more than 60%. More
Blu-ray revs up its marketing By Susanne Ault - 02/29/2008 FEB. 29 | Having knocked down HD DVD, Blu-ray Disc supporters now are positioning their advanced format as the one to beat standard DVD, cable and satellite for high quality video delivery.
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I Am Legend to carry digital file By Susanne Ault - 02/29/2008 FEB. 29 | I Am Legend will mark Warner Home Video’s second DVD release with an embedded digital copy, as the studio and others experiment with files for a widening selection of media platforms. Like Warner’s first file-embedded DVD, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Legend will carry the embedded file only on its special-edition standard DVD, due for release March 18.
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Strike takes toll on TV DVD By Susanne Ault - 02/29/2008 FEB. 29 | TV writers may have ended their strike and gone back to business, but TV DVD titles will likely feel the lingering effects of the prolonged work stoppage. Fewer completed scripts mean certain disc sets will be a few episodes—or more—short of a full season when they are released.
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OPINION: Traffic jams on broadband By Paul Sweeting - 02/29/2008 Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda FEB. 29 | WHILE POLITICS can make for strange bedfellows, it can also make for exceedingly awkward ones. Case in point: the Motion Picture Assn. of America’s comments to the Federal Communications Commission regarding broadband network practices.
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Abt amends Blu-ray plans By Alan Wolf of TWICE - 02/29/2008 FEB. 29 | FROM TWICE: Abt Electronics said it will increase its Blu-ray inventory in order to meet customer demand following Toshiba’s decision to stop production of HD DVD players, and expects other consumer electronics retailers to make “similar adjustments.”
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Sony unveils two Blu-ray Disc players By Susanne Ault - 02/26/2008 FEB. 26 | UPDATE: Sony’s debut Web-enabled Blu-ray Disc set-tops will start hitting retail in the next several months. The manufacturer’s first such BD Live player, the BDP-S350, will launch this summer as ‘ready’ to handle Web-enabled features.
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Popcorn picks TVN as distribution partner By Danny King - 02/25/2008 FEB. 25 | Popcorn Home Entertainment, which three weeks ago said it would provide Cablevision subscribers with some on-demand movies the same day they debut on DVD, chose TVN Entertainment as its distribution partner.
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DISC DISH Samantha Clark, Managing editor and online editor, Video Business April 4, 2008 Hell's Kitchen Season 1
I didn't see this show, but my husband and I recently got addicted to Kitchen Nightma... More
DISC DISH Samantha Clark, Managing editor and online editor, Video Business March 4, 2008 There Will Be Blood DETAILS
Ok, so we told you already that There Will Be Blood will be released on April 8 on DV... More
DISC DISH Samantha Clark, Managing editor and online editor, Video Business March 4, 2008 The Orphanage DVD, Blu-ray
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DISC DISH Samantha Clark, Managing editor and online editor, Video Business March 4, 2008 I Am Legend update
My earlier announcement for I Am Legend said the discs would include a controversial&... More
101 on the 101 To promote its 101 Dalmatians: Platinum Edition DVD, Disney turned Route 101 in Los Angeles into the ‘101 Dalmations Freeway,’ as 101 spotted cars drove on the highway to spcaLA’s Animal Village in Long Beach, Calif., on March 2.
Ricki visits New Line The Business of Being Born producer Ricki Lake recently visited New Line’s office in Los Angeles. The documentary will be released on DVD May 6.
Lawrence chats about Mrs. Doubtfire Actor Matthew Lawrence spent some time in Los Angeles on March 3 for interviews to promote Fox’s Mrs. Doubtfire: Special Edition DVD.