More Articles By Susanne Ault

• Netflix launches gift cards in stores
  NOV. 30 | Netflix will be offering gift cards for the first time this holiday season.Retailers signed up to sell the cards, which offer either one-month or three-month Netflix subscriptions, include Office Depot, Winn-Dixie and Barnes & Noble College Booksellers. Additional storefronts should be added in 2008. More
  
• Discounted catalog sells on Black Friday
  NOV. 30 | Recent bargain-priced catalog titles proved more of a must-have than some of the brand new blockbusters on shelves at key retailers over the Thanksgiving weekend. Older but still high-profile titles such as Spider-Man 2 and Batman Begins were sold for less than $4 at retailers including Sears, F.Y.E., Target and K-Mart. More
  
• High-def hardware sales jump with Black Friday discounts
  NOV. 30 | The Black Friday weekend brought nothing but green for high-def hardware, as retailers reported customers stocked up heavily on HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc players during the official start of the holiday shopping season. More
  
• Warner delivers two types of digital copies
  NOV. 30 | Warner Home Video’s release next week of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix launches the second branch of the studio’s two-pronged strategy to fuel adoption of digital movies by delivering them with physical copies of the studio’s major titles. More
  
• New Line sues Koch over Compass documentary
  NOV. 30 | New Line Cinema is crying foul over Koch Entertainment documentary DVD Beyond the Golden Compass: The Magic of Philip Pullman , alleging that the title infringes upon the copyright of its upcoming Dec. 7 theatrical The Golden Compass . More
  
• Another extension for Image, BTP merger
  NOV. 29 | Image Entertainment has again extended the deadline for the closure of its purchase by BTP Acquisition Co., to Dec. 3. More
  
• First HD VMD players in U.S. on sale in December
  NOV. 28 | U.S. retailer PC Rush has ordered 10,000 units of HD VMD Multilayer players for launch in December, marking the first time the fledgling high-definition format will be available domestically. More
  
• HD DVD player sales reach 750,000 units
  NOV. 27 | Following heavy Black Friday discounting, HD DVD players have collectively sold more than 750,000 units, according to the North American HD DVD Promotional Group. That figure encompasses lifetime sales of both Toshiba stand-alone models and Xbox 360 HD DVD players. More
  
• Navarre promotes Burke to chief operating officer
  NOV. 27 | Brian Burke has been promoted to chief operating officer at Navarre Corp. More
  
• Cyber Monday spending sets record at $733 million
  NOV. 27 | As expected, consumers increased their online spending to a record high on Cyber Monday, but the final tally outpaced projections by about 4.3%, to $733 million, according to research group ComScore. More
  
• EMA’s Home Media Expo moves to Palms
  NOV. 26 | The Entertainment Merchants Assn.’s Home Media Expo is getting a makeover for 2008, rolling out about a month earlier than usual on June 24-26 and at a new location, the Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. More
  
• Rhino opens retail outlet for holiday shoppers
  NOV. 26 | Retro CD and DVD label Rhino Entertainment is rolling out a temporary retail store in Los Angeles during the holidays. More
  
• Sales continue for Cyber Monday shoppers
  NOV. 26 | Most retailers kept the Black Friday sales burning past the weekend, as major bricks-and-mortar chains Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Circuit City, Sears, Kmart and F.Y.E were among those promoting further deals on their Web sites on Monday. More
  
• iTunes offers John Lennon Video Album on card
  NOV. 26 | Starbucks will be exclusively offering the John Lennon Video Album as an iTunes Digital Release card on Dec. 4. More
  
• Black Friday, Saturday has year-over-year gains
  NOV. 26 | Coinciding with this year’s many extended retail sales, analyst ShopperTrak is reporting year-over-year sales gains for both Friday and Saturday. More
  
• Warner, Fox develop DVD franchises
  NOV. 21 | Warner Premiere has started production on DVD premiere Another Cinderella Story , a teen romantic comedy starring Disney Channel talent Selena Gomez.  More
  
• HBO creates interactive window displays at Virgin
  NOV. 21 | HBO Video is teaming with Virgin Megastores on an interactive window display designed to get shoppers to wrap—and unwrap—HBO DVDs as holiday gifts. More
  
• Full-series TV DVDs grow at retail
  NOV. 21 | “Mega” TV DVD collections are swelling retailer shelves as studios try to squeeze more revenue out of previously released content. Stores are carefully ordering the sets, which are coming fast and furious. More
  
• Trans World loss broadens in fiscal Q3
  NOV. 21 | Gains made in DVD, videogames and electronics still could not prevent Trans World Entertainment from reporting wider losses in its fiscal 2007 third quarter. The retailer posted a $14.3 million net loss for the three months ended Nov. 3. More
  
• HD DVD moves to expand capacity
  NOV. 21 | The DVD Forum Steering Committee has approved amended specifications, dubbed Version 2.0, for the 51 GB triple-layer HD DVD.  More