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    OCT. 24 | To promote the final season DVD release of New Jersey's most infamous family, Movielink is offering free downloads of select episodes from the first and last season of HBO's hit mobster series The Sopranos and offering a $10 discount toward the sale of any season on DVD at Blockbuster stores.
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    OCT. 24 | FROM VARIETY: U.S. trade representative Susan C. Schwab announced Tuesday that the Bush administration and some key trading partners are launching a collaborative effort against piracy.
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    OCT. 23 | Amazon.com today reported one of its best quarters ever, with a 313% rise in net income in the period that ended on Sept. 30. The online retailer attributed its success in part to international media sales, such as DVDs, which grew 36% to $2.09 billion in the third quarter.
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    OCT. 23 | CNN is making the documentary Planet in Peril available on Amazon.com as a DVD title that’s manufactured on demand by Amazon unit CreateSpace (formerly known as CustomFlix).
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    OCT. 23 | FROM VARIETY: LONDON — European DVD sales will grow 8% by volume and 0.6% by value in 2007, according to the latest estimates from pan-industry body DEG Europe.
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Paul Sweeting
MEDIA WONK
Paul Sweeting, Editor, ContentAgenda
October 24, 2007
Managing without copying
The upcoming meeting of the DVD-CCA's Copy Protection Advisory Council promises to be...
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Laurence Lerman
DVDIALOG
Laurence Lerman, Product Digest Editor, Video Business
October 24, 2007
Werner Herzog's Jungle Fever
Speaking to filmmaker Werner Herzog, not surprisingly, is a little like viewing one o...
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Susanne Ault
RED STATE, BLUE STATE
Susanne Ault, Senior Reporter, Video Business
October 24, 2007
Michael Bay Site To Host Format Debate
The official Web site for Transformers filmmaker Michael Bay is scouting fo...
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Samantha Clark
DISC DISH
Samantha Clark, Managing editor and online editor, Video Business
October 23, 2007
Balls of Fury DVD, HD DVD
Now there's a name for a cult hit if I've ever seen one. Add Christopher Walken, and ...
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Marcy Magiera
BETWEEN THE LINES
Marcy Magiera, Editor in chief, Video Business
October 22, 2007
Behind the numbers
There is always more complexity and nuance to industry market data than we have the t...
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THE DOWN LOW
Ned Randolph, Reporter, Video Business
October 17, 2007
Another Look at Netflix's TV Box
What would set-up box actually mean for users, and for Netflix? For one thing, it ...
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Kids First! Event
Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium star Zach Mills was named best emerging actor at the KIDS FIRST! award show in Malibu on Oct. 7.
Run Granny Run Screening
Arts Alliance America recently held a screening of Run Granny Run with film star Doris “Granny D” Haddock in Keen, N.H.
Riding the Surf
Sony and Reef Check celebrated the DVD release of Surf’s Up at Malibu Bluffs Park in Malibu, Calif., on Oct. 6.

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God smiled down on family laffer Evan Almighty this week. 

Top DVD Sellers

RANKTITLE
1 EVAN ALMIGHTY
2 SURF'S UP
3 THE JUNGLE BOOK

Top DVD Rentals

RANKTITLE
1 EVAN ALMIGHTY
2 28 WEEKS LATER
3 REIGN OVER ME


Source: Rentrak Corp.; week ended 10/14/2007

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Sweeting 10/19/2007
OPINION: Filtering YouTube
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda

OCT. 19 | The digital-rights management wars more or less officially entered a new phase this week with the unveiling of Google’s long-promised content filtering system for YouTube.
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10/3/2007
OPINION: Reviving retail in a digital media world
Anthony Bay, chairman and co-founder of MOD Systems (www.modsystems.com)

OCT. 3 | When online digital content originally debuted in the marketplace, many predicted the impending demise of retail. For many of us, though, those predictions bring to mind Mark Twain’s famous quote: “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
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