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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FEB. 28 | As court proceedings continue largely in its favor, Movie Gallery is moving closer to exiting from Chapter 11 and implementing its reorganization plan without much interference.
FEB. 28 | FROM VARIETY: Disney Interactive Studios on Tuesday unveiled plans for Ultimate Band, a new music simulation it plans to launch in the fall that will compete with Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
FEB. 27 | Redbox will add kiosks at about 1,800 Walgreens stores in the U.S. by the end of next year, allowing the largest U.S. movie-rental kiosk operator to lengthen its lead over competitors Moviecube and DVDPlay. Redbox tripled its kiosk count last year and currently has about 6,800 machines in the U.S., including about 250 Walgreens machines, the company said in a statement.
FEB. 27 | Netflix said today that its subscriber count will be about 3% higher than previously forecast because of price increases from rival Blockbuster and cheaper online advertising rates. The company also said it would quadruple its Blu-ray selection this year and hinted at a possible partnership with Microsoft.
Comcast Corp. admitted yesterday that it paid people to attend a government hearing. Company critics say the freelance attendees were there to crowd them out; Comcast says they were merely saving seats for employees. The five-hour hearing Monday at Harvard University was organized by the Federal Communications Commission to address the issue of net neutrality, a hot-button topic for those who think there should be minimal restrictions on Internet traffic. The topic has drawn wide interest from college students, media-reform groups, and Internet companies.
Federal regulators have approved a swap that will give Douglas County-based Liberty Media Corp. control over DirecTV, the country's largest satellite TV company.The Federal Communications Commission issued its long-awaited approval of the $12 billion deal this week.It has been more than a year since John Malone's Liberty Media agreed to acquire about a 40 percent stake in DirecTV from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.This transaction is strategically important, financially attractive and will provide new focus to Liberty Media, Liberty CEO Greg Maffei said in a statement.The deal will put two television services in Puerto Rico under Liberty Media's control. The FCC wants those businesses to be severed within a year.
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DVDIALOG Laurence Lerman, Product Digest Editor, Video Business February 28, 2008 Just a Mongolian Love Song
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MEDIA WONK Paul Sweeting, Editor, ContentAgenda February 28, 2008 From Y2K to DTV
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DISC DISH Samantha Clark, Managing editor and online editor, Video Business February 26, 2008 No HD DVD on There Will Be Blood?
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BETWEEN THE LINES Marcy Magiera, Editor in chief, Video Business February 22, 2008 Blu-ray should be cooking by Q4
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Cops turns 20 Fox celebrated the Cops: 20th Anniversary DVD with creator John Langley at the Auto Club 500 at the California Speedway on Feb. 24. At the event, Langley was named an honorary race official.
Blood + at WonderCon Sony hosted a Blood + panel with the voice actors and crew at WonderCon, which took place in San Francisco Feb. 22-24.
Last Emperor event Image held a reception and screening for The Last Emperor at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre on Feb. 19. Emperor will be released by Criterion as a 20th anniversary special edition DVD on Feb. 26.
2/22/2008 OPINION: Blu blues Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda FEB. 22 | The format war has been a remarkable story to cover, not least because it’s a story of how individual companies, pursuing narrow, often parochial interests, led to the industry’s adopting what—I’ll now confess—I’ve always believed is the wrong format. More
1/11/2008 LETTER TO THE EDITOR: HD DVD vs. Blu-ray Steve Bliss, Microcinema DVD, Albuquerque, N.M.JAN. 11 | I was a little surprised by Warner’s decision to abandon HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray Disc, but there is no question about its motives. More