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Graffeo to leave high-def post at Universal MARCH 26 | Following the death of HD DVD, one of the format’s gurus, Ken Graffeo, will leave his high-definition marketing role at Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

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Blockbuster stock drops, rebounds on Apple news JAN. 16 | While the U.S. stock markets experienced a broad sell-off Tuesday, Blockbuster fell particular far, dropping 17%, on news that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had just unveiled a movie rental service on iTunes.

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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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Blockbuster looks to boost sell-through as losses grow NOV. 1 | Blockbuster laid out some details of its plan to improve store profitability—including a focus on consumer sales—as it reported a wider third-quarter loss Thursday.

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OPINION: Taking the handcuffs off

Paul Sweeting is editor of Content AgendaAPRIL 11 | It wasn’t really news last week when reports resurfaced that Blockbuster Video is working on a plan to stream movies to a set-top box of some sort for viewing on users’ TV sets. Those plans were a principal factor behind Blockbuster’s acquisition

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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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Blockbuster will triple stores with Blu-ray

APRIL 10 | Blockbuster will almost triple the number of stores that carry Blu-ray discs and will add Blu-ray display kiosks to almost all of its U.S. company-owned stores in an effort to boost revenue from high-definition disc rentals.

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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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APRIL 3 | LOS ANGELES—The DVD industry took a step toward developing standards for eco-friendly DVD manufacturing, packaging, shipping and marketing at the first Green Media Summit here yesterday. Full Story

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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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