More Articles By Susanne Ault

• DEG plans Blu-ray promotional blitz
  MARCH 5 | The Digital Entertainment Group is promising to do for Blu-ray Disc what it did for DVD. DEG member companies are launching a consumer education, retail training and public relations blitz to break the high-definition format into the mainstream. More
  
• Blockbuster gets exclusive window on IFC titles
  MARCH 5 | IFC Entertainment will release its titles only to Blockbuster for their first 60 days, with the exclusive spanning sell-through as well as physical and digital rental. More
  
• Circuit City discounts HD DVD for quick inventory sell-off
  MARCH 3 | Circuit City is closing out its HD DVD stock and expects to be rid of the products within the month. More
  
• Strike takes toll on TV DVD
  FEB. 29 | TV writers may have ended their strike and gone back to business, but TV DVD titles will likely feel the lingering effects of the prolonged work stoppage. Fewer completed scripts mean certain disc sets will be a few episodes—or more—short of a full season when they are released. More
  
• Blu-ray revs up its marketing
  FEB. 29 | Having knocked down HD DVD, Blu-ray Disc supporters now are positioning their advanced format as the one to beat standard DVD, cable and satellite for high quality video delivery. More
  
• I Am Legend to carry digital file
  FEB. 29 | I Am Legend will mark Warner Home Video’s second DVD release with an embedded digital copy, as the studio and others experiment with files for a widening selection of media platforms. Like Warner’s first file-embedded DVD, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , Legend will carry the embedded file only on its special-edition standard DVD, due for release March 18. More
  
• New Line remarkets Bardem-starrer  Cholera
  FEB. 29 | Love in the Time of Cholera is getting a second chance to click with audiences, courtesy of leading man Javier Bardem. New Line Home Entertainment has switched packaging and marketing materials for the March 18 DVD release to spotlight Bardem, who won an Oscar for his supporting turn in Best Picture winner No Country for Old Men . More
  
• Anchor Bay, Kmart partner for fitness
  FEB. 28 | Anchor Bay Entertainment has partnered with Kmart on a fitness promotion hyping its DVD titles. To support the promotion, dubbed “New Day Your Way,” Kmart has launched a social networking site at www.kmart.com/newday where Anchor Bay fitness experts will be contributing healthy lifestyle tips. More
  
• Sony unveils two Blu-ray Disc players
  FEB. 26 | UPDATE: Sony’s debut Web-enabled Blu-ray Disc set-tops will start hitting retail in the next several months. The manufacturer’s first such BD Live player, the BDP-S350, will launch this summer as ‘ready’ to handle Web-enabled features. More
  
• Fox gets in ring with WWE
  FEB. 26 | UPDATE: World Wrestling Entertainment is hoping to turn its brawlers into Hollywood stars, partnering with 20th Century Fox in a multi-title theatrical and straight-to-DVD deal. Starting in 2009, WWE will be producing annually at least one theatrical project and up to four made-for-DVD titles for Fox distribution. More
  
• Oscar winners slated for DVD
  FEB. 25 | Best Picture standout No Country for Old Men leads a large batch of Oscar-winning films soon headed to DVD and/or are already available at retail. More
  
• Amazon gets Blu-ray title exclusive
  FEB. 22 | Warner Home Video and National Geographic will launch the Blu-ray Disc version of Six Degrees Could Change the World only at Amazon.com on Earth Day, April 22, marking the studio’s first BD retail exclusive. More
  
• Retailers to phase out HD DVD
  FEB. 22 | Retail reaction to Toshiba’s formal abandonment of the HD DVD format was swift, as those stores that had not already done so last week moved to de-emphasize and in many cases, liquidate, HD DVD products. More
  
• Philips targets women with new hardware design
  FEB. 22 | Philips is promoting product design more than ever in 2008, distinguishing itself as a brand particularly keen on female tastes. More
  
• Pioneer builds Hollywood loft for high-end products
  FEB. 22 | Pioneer is stylishly designing a Hollywood loft with its products in an effort to draw entertainment industry professionals to the high-end brand. More
  
• Amazon, DVD Empire back Blu-ray
  FEB. 20 | Online retailers Amazon.com and DVDEmpire.com are the latest dominoes to fall in Blu-ray’s direction. Both are formally endorsing Blu-ray as their high-definition format choice, one day after Toshiba conceded defeat in the format war by announcing it would soon stop production of HD DVD players. More
  
• Disney to deliver pre-theater entertainment
  FEB. 20 | Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will be delivering in-theater content for National CineMedia’s FirstLook marketing program. More
  
• 30 Days of Night Blu-ray
  SONY Street: Feb. 19 Prebook: now > Rampaging vampires at night in the snow make for some truly eye-popping imagery. Armed with eye-candy stars Josh Hartnett and Melissa George, plus a midnight-all-the-time premise, 30 Days of Night is a great set-up for high-definition viewing. The two headliners live in an Alaskan village where there is a month of no sunlight every year—a prime sett... More
  
• High-def discs lag standard, but gaining momentum
  FEB. 15 | High-definition software sales are trailing standard-definition by half in the formats’ first two years on the market, according to Adams Media Research. More
  
• Easter period crowded with titles
  FEB. 15 | March is becoming the practical beginning of the new release New Year, according to studios and retailers, who in some cases are drawing comparisons between the crowded pre-Easter period and the fourth quarter. More