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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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1/20/2006 To hear studio chiefs tell it, exclusive release windows are about to go out the window. At CES this month, News Corp. president Peter Chernin announced that 20th Century Fox is developing plans to make movies available via video-on-demand simultaneously with their release on DVD.

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APRIL 10 | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is going to market its first BD Live, Web-enabled features slowly. The studio makes little mention of BD Live in TV ads or newspaper circulars for April 8 Blu-ray Disc releases Walk Hard and The Sixth Day, its first with Web connectivity features.

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The fourth quarter will represent the first real marketing push for high-definition discs, but retailers are expecting it to have little impact on shelf space in stores. Full Story

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MARCH 21 | With space at a premium in traditional retail stores, distributors are installing new DVD shelves in such unlikely niche accounts as Aéropostale, Harley-Davidson, Princess Cruises and Capezio.

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JULY 12 | E3: CULVER CITY, Calif.—Sony Corp. is expanding its PlayStation Portable handheld game console, positioning it more as a gaming unit than a media player.

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Nancy Drew goes to VOD, download same day as DVD

MARCH 11 | Bolstering its already aggressive video-on-demand strategy, Warner Bros. Digital Distribution today debuted an exclusive version of Nancy Drew to VOD, pay-per-view and download-to-own platforms the same day the film was released on DVD.

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Since Steve Berkman, a former director of eastern U.S. franchise operations for Blockbuster Inc., joined Palm Beach Tan six years ago, he has enticed enough Blockbuster franchisees to join the tanning chain so that independent Blockbuster owners now operate half of Palm Beach Tan’s stores.

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Studios fear little for DVD’s future

MARCH 12 | LA QUINTA, Calif.—Reports of DVD’s decline in the face of more content-download services are highly exaggerated. That was one of the few things studios executives agreed on during a panel discussion at the Content Delivery and Storage Assn. conference here March 7-9.

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Q4 sales expectations tempered NOV. 16 | Halfway through the fourth quarter, some studios and retailers seem to be tempering expectations for DVD sales despite a lineup of 16 titles that made more than $100 million at the box office, including four that made more than $300 million.

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