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By Susanne Ault
- Sony tests digital copies on DVD releases
MARCH 7 | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is taking an experimental approach to embedding digital copies of its movies on DVD, including offering a half-dozen catalog titles exclusively through Wal-Mart and two DVD premieres to the entire market.
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- Samsung pulls second-gen dual-format player
MARCH 7 | Citing the end of the format war, Samsung Electronics will not launch its planned second-generation HD DVD/Blu-ray combination player.
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- Trans World revenue drops 23% in Q4
MARCH 6 | Trans World Entertainment’s plan to become a broad entertainment retailer hit some bumps in the fourth quarter, as revenue for the three months ended Feb. 2 fell 23% to $451.5 million and the chain posted a net loss of $66 million.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 .
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- Paramount done with HD DVD next week
FEB. 28 | The March 4 releases Into the Wild and Things We Lost in the Fire will be Paramount Home Entertainment’s last titles in the HD DVD format, the studio confirmed. The studio pulled the plug on the HD DVD versions of other titles that had been announced for the format, including DreamWorks Animation’s Bee Movie (pictured), due March 11, and Sweeney Todd , due April 1. Their standard DVD versions will come out as planned.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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