J. River, Inc. , a digital rights management solution provider, today announced the beta release of version 6.0 of Media Jukebox (TM) software, which the company is touting as the world’s first universal media player. The beta includes a peer-to-peer [...]
We recently ran an article about Fluorescent Multilayer Disc (FMD) videodisc technology, and how it would be first showcased with the distribution of the upcoming movie Bounce. Well, we have a few more details about the event and we feel that it will be [...]
Those of you debating whether to lay down good money on EBay to try and score one of those rare DVDs of Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night—WAIT!— Buena Vista Home Entertainment is getting ready to re-issue the disc this coming March. In 1964, The [...]
Warner Home Video has announced the DVD release of The Exorcist: The Version You Never Saw, for December. Re-released to theatres earlier this year, director William Friedkin and writer William Peter Blatty collaborated to restore eleven minutes of [...]
As our editor has noted in today’s update, Columbia/TriStar Home Video is putting together a new DVD version of the Chinese classic Once Upon A Time In China. Well, we have some of the details to whet your appetite for this exciting film… Though [...]
ESS Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ESST), a digital multimedia and communications company, announced today that Vialta, one of the its subsidiaries, has introduced its ViMedia (Video Internet Media) disc. The disc is a delivery system for media-rich content [...]
Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment plans the timely release on DVD of 2 football comedies, just in time for the Super Bowl: Necessary Roughness & North Dallas Forty. Here are some of the details: North Dallas Forty (1979) This is the [...]
Fans of the highly charged gangster film, The Untouchables (1987) will be pleased to hear that Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment is getting ready to release the film to DVD this coming January. Kevin Costner stars as Elliot Ness, the G-man who is [...]
Fans of Vincent Price and classic campy 70s horror will be absolutely delighted to hear that MGM Home Entertainment is preparing both The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) and Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) for DVD release this coming February. A doctor, [...]
The Spike Lee DVD catalogue is growing larger every week it seems. The coming re-issue of Do The Right Thing from Criterion (November 14th) is now joined by several more films from the prolific director. First, from HBO Pictures comes the excellent and [...]
