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HD DVD player sales reach 750,000 units NOV. 27 | Following heavy Black Friday discounting, HD DVD players have collectively sold more than 750,000 units, according to the North American HD DVD Promotional Group.

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OCT. 19 | Online downloading for videogame consoles is exploding in popularity, with revenue tripling to $583 million in 2007 from $133 million last year, according to research firm IDC.

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March retail sales up, but consumer electronics' Impact Mixed

APRIL 11 | FROM TWICE: While national mass merchants and warehouse clubs all reported higher March sales, the impact of electronics and the early Easter date were mixed.

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Orbiting Spaceman Filmmakers Brett Rapkin (l.) and Josh Dixon (c.) celebrated their documentary, Spaceman: A Baseball Odyssey, with the film’s subject, Bill “Spaceman” Lee, at Brattle Theater in Cambridge, Mass. The event was held on Sept.

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Circuit City: Q4 profit, but sales down 7.7%

APRIL 8 | FROM TWICE: Circuit City reported net earnings of $4.5 million for its fiscal fourth quarter, but a wider loss for its fiscal year and lower sales for both periods.

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Veteran MGM home entertainment chief David Bishop joined Sony Pictures in 2004 when the studios merged, serving as president of worldwide brand integration and head of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment North America before becoming SPHE’s worldwide president last month.

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Web site relaunch lifts Virgin revenue

APRIL 7 | Virgin Megastores credited its recent Web site makeover for revenue gains in 2007.

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DVD Push At the Aug. 18 Los Angeles premiere of Push, actor Chad Lindberg (c.) and director Dave Rodriguez chatted with Allumination’s Meghan Daly. The DVD premiere, which also stars Chazz Palminteri and Michael Rapaport, streets Oct. 10.

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Housing slump pulls down electronics sales

APRIL 3 | The U.S. housing slump pulled down fourth-quarter sales of consumer-electronics products in all but one metropolitan area, cutting earnings at retailers such as Best Buy, NPD Group said in a report this week. U.S. flat-panel TV sales bucked the trend, however, by jumping 24%.

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Xbox 360 sales drop 31% in October NOV. 15 | The Xbox 360’s (pictured) Halo 3 bubble has popped, as October sales for the console fell about 31% from September’s record showing to 366,000 units sold, according to latest NPD Group research.

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