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DVD Developer Club launched on Yahoo!

August 25, 1998 // 0 Comments

Arthur Mrozowski, founder of Media Galleries, Inc., a small electronic media development and publishing company launched a new Community Club on Yahoo today, called the DVD Developers Club. The purpose of the public forum is to foster communication within [...]

Lost In Space contains extensive DVD-ROM features

August 24, 1998 // 0 Comments

New Line Home Video have just released additional information about their upcoming release of Lost In Space. Although the films is playable on both, DVD Video players and PC based DVD-ROMs, New Line align themselves with InterActual Technologies to create [...]

New Line commit to “Lord Of The Rings”

August 24, 1998 // 0 Comments

Not exactly DVD related, but still very interesting… According to the L.A. Times, New Line Cinema have just committed to upward $130 mio to create the most ambitious and costly film project in the company’s history. Peter “The Frighteners” [...]

Mercury Rising DVD to be released before VHS

August 20, 1998 // 0 Comments

For the first time in the DVD marketplace, a film will actually be released on DVD ahead of time of the VHS release! Universal have decided to release the DVD ersion of their upcoming release “Mercury Rising”, starring Bruce Willis, one week earlier [...]

Warner announce first titles at $14.95 price point

August 13, 1998 // 0 Comments

As we have reported some time ago, Warner is agressively lowering prices on their DVD releases. Now Warner Home Video introduce their $14.95 line-up. The discs are more targeted at a mainstream consumers than home theater owners, which becomes obvious in [...]

Finally Paramount’s official title announcement

August 10, 1998 // 0 Comments

As mentioned before, this is one of the most important days in the history of DVD, taking us to the next level of home video entertainment. After a long time of speculation and secrecy, we have just received Paramounts official press release this morning, [...]

FOX announce their DVD support

August 10, 1998 // 0 Comments

This day clearly has to go down in DVD history as one of the most important ones. Today 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment have finally officially announced their support of the DVD platform. Finally the wait is over and we would like to welcome Fox as [...]

No Escape recalled

August 7, 1998 // 0 Comments

Warner Home Video have recalled the release of “No Escape”. As we had reported earlier, the disc has a serious production problem, causing the audio track to drop out for a long period of time at the end of the film. The disc has now bee nrecaleld [...]
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