Articles by Guido Henkel

Columbia TriStar sheds light on Kermit’s Swamp Years

July 11, 2002 // 0 Comments

Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment has just announced plans to release first-ever live-action Muppets direct-to-video feature Kermit’s Swamp Years in September. With a banjo and a song in his heart, Kermit left for Hollywood to pursue his dream of [...]

Toshiba launches PhotoCD support

July 11, 2002 // 0 Comments

Toshiba Corp. has announced a partnership with Planetweb Inc. to develop DVD players with the ability to not only read DVDs, CDs, and CD-Rs, but PhotoCDs as well. The upcoming Toshiba SD-3800 and SD-4800 model players will include software created by [...]

DVD Disc creation facility launches full-service operation

July 10, 2002 // 0 Comments

Today Ambient Digital Media announced the launch of its new authoring and compression facility, located in Santa Monica, California. ADM is positioned to provide full service DVD disc creation to a variety of content developers, resulting in completely [...]

Sony saves the day with Underdog

July 10, 2002 // 0 Comments

Sony Music Video is ready to release the greatest superhero known to man on DVD; Underdog is coming. There’s no need to fear–Underdog is here! The cartoon superhero comes to DVD in a special collector’s edition. Contains the original series [...]

Star Trek: The Next Generation goes to season five

July 9, 2002 // 0 Comments

Instead of trying to be clever by claiming the fifth season of the popular series Star Trek: The Next Generation will be beaming to shelves or coming at warp speed, I will merely state my excitement at Paramount Home Entertainment’s continued commitment [...]

Panic Room corrections

July 9, 2002 // 0 Comments

It appears that the previous post here was inaccurate concerning the upcoming DVD of Panic Room. The title will only be receiving a SuperBit release with anamorphic widescreen video and audio in Dolby Surround 2.0 in English and French. and DTS 5.1. A [...]

A great director is lost

July 9, 2002 // 0 Comments

The film community has lost a pioneer over the weekend when legendary Hollywood director John Frankenheimer passed away on Saturday of a stroke. The 72 year old director has filmed over forty films and several television series since his introduction to [...]

Warner plans Murder by Numbers

July 8, 2002 // 0 Comments

Sandra Bullock comes to DVD with her newest thriller Murder by Numbers. Warner Brothers will bow the disc this September. The body of a young woman is found in a ditch in the woods of the small California coastal town of San Benito. Cassie Mayweather is [...]

The Simpsons: Second Season

July 8, 2002 // 0 Comments

The next batch of ’The Simpsons’ DVDs is here! The complete second season of the animated TV series is presented on 4-discs in this set from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, continuing the trend of their previous release. The set contains the [...]

MGM beams with The Pride of the Yankees

July 5, 2002 // 0 Comments

MGM Home Entertainment delivers up the goods on classic baseball entertainment with the 1942 great The Pride of the Yankees. Considered one of the greatest baseball films ever made, this is the moving true story of New York Yankee immortal Lou Gehrig, the [...]
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