Shares of media and Internet companies jumped in early U.S. stock market trading this morning on news that America Online Inc. (AOL) had agreed to buy Time Warner Inc. in the biggest takeover ever. Investors speculated that the deal between the No. 1 [...]
Next week, Universal Home Video will release Bowfinger on DVD. It is a riotous comedy starring Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy, that takes a not-so-serious look at the Hollywood-way of doing business. Learn through Steve Martin as a down-on-his-luck [...]
Zoran Corporation today announced that Toshiba Corporation is using Zoran’s Vaddis IV DVD decoder chip to power its full line of new generation DVD players, SD-K330TA, SD-2109TA, SD-3109TE, and SD-K520. These exciting additions to Toshiba’s DVD [...]
-Genesis Microchip today reported the company is proud of Panasonic winning an Innovations Award at CES for the Panasonic DVD player that uses a Genesis chip as its key video/film-processing component. Panasonic Consumer Electronics Co. has been honored [...]
Pioneer Entertainment today announced that it has signed a licensing agreement to release Windham Hill music video titles on DVD and VHS. As part of the agreement, Pioneer Entertainment will distribute seven Windham Hill videos created and produced by [...]
In a thrilling sequel to one of the most celebrated films in Disney history, Walt Disney Home Video is proud to bring The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea to video and DVD in fall of 2000. This all-new, animated adventure marks the return of Ariel, [...]
Just in time for the Easter Holidays, Criterion Collection has scheduled Martin Scorcese’s controversial The Last Temptation Of Christ for release on March 14. The DVD will be an exclusive, director-approved special edition with a number of exciting [...]
A record number of Hollywood studios in association with leading hardware companies today announced a first quarter marketing program designed to catapult DVD sales. It is projected that the industry installed base will double in 2000 reaching more than [...]
Enjoying even greater sales than expected in the all-important fourth quarter, DVD-Video was hailed as the most successful consumer electronics product launch ever. Figures compiled by the DVD Entertainment Group (formerly DVD Video Group) based on retail [...]
Acorn Media has just announced two new titles for release from the popular television series Agatha Christie’s Poirot on February 1. Starring David suchet as Hercule Poirot, the most watched detective in the history of PBS’ Mystery! series, [...]
