The Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) released its 2008 annual
report with a wealth of data revealing the most trends in TV, home
video and video gaming segments. The flood of data re
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 00:23
Analysis - Movie rentals and purchases in iTunes Store are catching up with DVDs big time with today's announcement that Apple's online media store will offer new and library titles the same da
Friday, May 02, 2008 14:52
... Be Blood are released. One other milestone, its first new Blu-ray title to come out day-and-date with the DVD release, will be The Spiderwick Chronicles which is slated for June 24....
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 09:34
...n (England) - Media conglomerate Viacom may soon add Midway to its portfolio, according to an interview with England trade magazine MCV. The CEO of Midway Matt Booty told the publication that the com...
Monday, April 28, 2008 15:17
...t bothered me in perspective. These behaviors previously seemed stupid and being stupid is inconsistent with the kind of quality work Jobs otherwise does. While I’m quite sure that I wouldn’t wa...
Friday, April 25, 2008 11:24
...to figure out the distance of objects to the camera lens in order to calculate the geography of objects with in a picture. Current projects appear to either focus on pictures that are taken by multiple...
Friday, March 21, 2008 14:04
...y players down. Sony is reported to slash the price of its PS3 console as soon as the current promotion with BD movies ends at the end of this quarter. There are big hopes on the impact of the release...
Monday, March 17, 2008 13:44
... and analyze potential impacts on other DVD Forum specifications. The review approval authority remains with the DVD Forum. It is expected that the format will use a codec (Advanced Audio Video Encodi...
Friday, February 29, 2008 12:38
...mation is still locked in to an exclusivity contract. So far this year, nearly everyone still involved with HD DVD has decided to stop supporting the format and either switch to Blu-ray or drop out o...
Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:40
... will not change its lasting HD DVD plans in light of the format-killing news that came out this month, with HD DVD creators Toshiba and Universal axing their commitment to the high-def platform. ...
Thursday, February 21, 2008 01:52
...due to its decision not to offer an HD DVD drive integrated in its Xbox 360. Even if we here have dealt with HD DVD and Blu-ray almost on a daily basis for some time, we were surprised to find some in...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 09:21
...t format war, the company can easily transition to Blu-ray and will be able to roll out Blu-ray players with in months, perhaps weeks. The company has covered its bases through Toshiba Samsung Storage...
Saturday, February 16, 2008 13:20
...u-ray and HD DVD today, what would you buy? Based on recent media coverage we guess likely you would go with Blu-ray. But has the market already made its decision? Which companies support which format...
Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:30
...ales to decline and now there is the first large analyst firm that actually predicts the format to die with in this year. In a research note that was leaked to media today, Shimizu was quoted statin...
Monday, January 28, 2008 10:49
...nd joins Warner Bros, New Line, and HBO as recent converts to Blu-ray exclusivity. HD DVD is left with just Universal, a founding member of the format, and Paramount , which reportedly received h...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 06:58
...quo;s HD DVD technology. Sony was winning, he said - until Paramount switched sides. In a conversation with the Associated Press, Stringer described the competition with HD DVD as “difficult fi...
Friday, November 09, 2007 13:43
...big failure, Dr. Tether knew he was seeing history made. The winning teams will get money and trophies with the top prize being a cool $2 million dollars, a very heavy trophy and no doubt countless m...
Friday, October 26, 2007 09:52
...sformers has become the best-selling high definition video title (that is available on a single format) with in the first week of its launch, Paramount Home Entertainment announced. Hollywood (CA) &n...
Monday, October 22, 2007 22:51
Microsoft today announced that it will be forming with Toshiba the Advanced Interactivity Consortium (AIC), intended to become an “open forum” that aims to accelerate the adoption of &ldq
Thursday, October 04, 2007 16:37
...was a very spirited spokesperson for the advantages of supporting both. Meanwhile, News Corp CEO sided with Iger and claimed it was obvious that Blu-ray was a better format. "The public ca...
Thursday, September 20, 2007 09:35
...d feature film of the year is coming to high-def, and thanks to a recently minted exclusivity agreement with Dreamworks, it will be available only on HD DVD. Shrek the Third, the top-grossing animate...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:11
...nt. In the best tradition of similar product launches AMD chose to open its product introduction with a CGI video, titled "QC-64: Contains imagery of power, speed and virtualiza...
Monday, September 10, 2007 23:52
Vudu, a new video download service, was announced this week, along with proprietary set-top boxes designed to deliver downloadable high definition movies. New York (NY) - Vudu, a new video download s
Thursday, September 06, 2007 15:26
...pes. They can be viewed logically like this. SIMD was first introduced for integers only with MMX. It was then extended to 32-bit floating points with SSE. SSE2 brought 64-b...
Friday, August 31, 2007 09:52
...he Hollywood Reporter reports that Nickerson is leaving his post at Warner to pursue other plans. With Paramount 's eyebrow-raising announcement to back HD DVD exclusively earlier this week, ...
Friday, August 24, 2007 11:44
...i-Disk, Professional Disk for Data, HiFD, Music Clip and the Super Audio CD. They had one success with the 3.5” floppy drive and negotiated out of the Multi-Media Disk to create the DVD wi...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 17:39
...tures, Dreamworks Animation Paramount Vantage, Nickelodeon Movies and MTV Films. The program will begin with the release of Blades of Glory on August 28, followed by Transformers and Shrek the Third. ...
Monday, August 20, 2007 13:58
...has flip-flopped on the idea of digital downloads in the past, it has now reportedly entered the market with a confirmed deal to acquire Movielink. Dallas (TX) - Though Blockbuster has flip-flopped on...
Thursday, August 09, 2007 12:10
...nt Top 500 list has all five of their primary workhorses listed. Three of them were even in the top 100 with Abe debuting at #8. To walk by the facility you would have no idea what's going on insi...
Monday, July 02, 2007 01:00
...a similar deal given by the HD DVD association. Several player makers are giving free movies away with a purchase of an HD DVD player. Toshiba and Amazon have also teamed up to offer seven...
Thursday, June 28, 2007 08:06
Apple, maker of MacBook laptops and iPod digital media players, is in advanced talks with Hollywood's largest movie studios about launching an online film rental service to challenge cable and sat
Monday, June 11, 2007 11:39
...th manufacturers previously only worked on Blu-ray devices. However, Samsung is in a joint partnership with Toshiba as Toshiba Samsung Storage Technologies (TSST), which produces HD DVD disc drives f...
Friday, April 13, 2007 10:15
...tures from the contest here... The event was open to the public and roughly 100 people attended with about a third actually competing. Participants could only use a LG enV or LG V mobile phone...
Wednesday, April 04, 2007 12:55
...-own section of the site, where consumers can pay more to own digital files of movies, which are packed with extensive encryption that prevents playback on certain devices. This sparked a new ro...
Thursday, March 01, 2007 12:38
...t on the up and up. Dubbed the BitTorrent Entertainment Network, it has reportedly already inked deals with Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, MGM, and Lionsgate for online purchases ...
Monday, February 26, 2007 19:24
Viacom today announced that it has formed a partnership with Joost, an online video rival created by the founders of Skype. New York (NY) - After a tension-filled move to have all its videos taken do
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 12:34
...d $9.99 for similar titles on iTunes. The iTunes set price model has caused many studios to stay away, with Walt Disney and Paramount as the only two currently available from Apple's digital stor...
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:00
...e the installation of an applet that, according to the company, will enable the launch of a videostream with in 10 - 15 seconds. The quality of the video depends on the bandwidth available: Minimum req...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 18:12
...rcut Blu-ray devices substantially. According to Toshiba, the new writer, which will only be available with a SATA interface, supports single and dual layer discs, which provides users up to 30 GB of...
Friday, January 05, 2007 15:23
...e Marketplace, in addition to arcade-style games and digital extras for Xbox 360 titles, is now stocked with digital versions of full-length TV shows and movies, available for between $2 and $6, with ...
Wednesday, November 22, 2006 16:02
...t may be contractually prohibited from making them. LG even cancelled their hybrid plans and went ahead with making only Blu-ray players and recorders. Sony's Blu-ray license apparently prohibits driv...
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 20:21
...sumers that HD DVD is "The Look and Sound of Perfect." If you are planning to upgrade your home theater with some high-definition components, including an HD DVD or Blu-ray player, prepare to get cove...
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 19:08
Three German companies yesterday demonstrated what could be considered the ultimate movie experience of the future: If you thought it just doesn't get better than a 1080p high-definition home theater
Thursday, June 15, 2006 18:44
Star Trek fans have been waiting patiently for a serious space combat game adaption, but their wait may soon be over: Mad Doc Software, under Bethesda Softworks, recently revealed first details about
Saturday, May 20, 2006 21:06
Warner Home Video announced late yesterday its plans to release Rumor Has It on a "combo" format disc, featuring single-layer HD DVD and standard-resolution DVD on alternate sides. Meanwhile, Univers
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 14:04
Paramount Pictures made it official this morning: J. J. Abrams, the director of popular television series such as Lost and Alias , and most recently the director of Mission: Impossible III , has been
Friday, April 21, 2006 19:16
...on DVD, both services are testing the threshold of acceptable DRM: Downloads are "competitively" priced with regular DVDs, but come with substantial usage restrictions. ...
Monday, April 03, 2006 21:49
Industry support for a feature of high-definition copy protection that would limit the output of HD DVD and Blu-ray discs to 540 lines of resolution, is waning fast, as once-stalwart Universal has re
Monday, March 27, 2006 20:54
...oshiba indicated in a recent statement that it intends to release its upcoming HD DVD players in tandem with studios' release of movies for the HD DVD format those players support. There should have b...
Monday, March 20, 2006 21:56
Today, a representative of Warner Home Video told the Hollywood Reporter that HD DVD titles may be delayed for several weeks, prompting the removal of those titles from retailers' catalogs. Did the A
Tuesday, March 14, 2006 16:54
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