Oct

11

Latest Harry Potter DVD release will have a couple surprises in store for consumers

Posted by Todd

October 11, 2007 | 1 Comment

When you rush out to the store to purchase your copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix this December, you will be getting more than you bargained for.

Oct

3

Control your DVD player like a WII

Posted by Todd

October 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I just stumbled across this little news blurb on Google news.  Seems someone has developed a chip that will allow you to control DVD playback by waving your hand in the air.  By pointing your thumb in the air you can fast forward, skip back, etc.
The blurb gives very little information so understand I have [...]

Oct

3

HD-DVD to launch an online shopping feature

Posted by Todd

October 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Evan Almighty, releasing on October 9th, will be the first title to take advantage of this feature.

Oct

1

Now this is a pretty good idea

Posted by Todd

October 1, 2007 | 1 Comment

I have been blogging quite a bit over the past couple days about DVD purchasing kiosks, but what about a DVD rental kiosk?

Sep

29

UFC kicks WWE to the curb

Posted by Todd

September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This is pretty interesting.  Ultimate Fighting Championship has the top two slots on the Billboard Recreational Sports chart for the first time ever.  I have been noticing that the WWE seems to be struggling a lot lately and it seems that all of it’s thunder has been stolen away.  Personally I don’t watch either anymore, [...]

Sep

29

Qflix hopes to bring download to own to the masses

Posted by Todd

September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Hollywood has been dreaming of the following scenario: A customer walks up to a kiosk in a local store, picks a movie, swipes a credit card and walks away with an actual disc containing the movie they ordered.   A DVD vending machine if you will.

Sep

26

Format war to continue for quite a while

Posted by Todd

September 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

If you have been following this blog you will notice that I have blogged a couple articles about the format war. More specifically, I blogged about a new format HD-VMD and the fact that Warner has shelved its Total HD format. It seems like these moves, along with HD-DVD stealing Paramount away, have [...]

Sep

21

This just in: Hollywood is dumb

Posted by Todd

September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Not the town, and not people that live there, well maybe some people, but more like the institution/company of Hollywood.  I stumbled upon this article about Hollywood deciding to allow customers to download movies and burn them to DVD.  Of course, they have to completely destroy it and make sure nobody will ever want to [...]

Sep

17

Warner puts Total HD on the backburner

Posted by Todd

September 17, 2007 | 1 Comment

In a move that really isn’t all that surprising, Warner Home Video(WHV) announced that they are going to halt development on their new optical disc format called Total HD.

Sep

11

Are people actually buying UMD movies?

Posted by Todd

September 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This amazes me. Let me give you a little background.  UMD is Sony’s proprietary format for the Play Station Portable.  About two years ago I was one of only two people in our office to program these torture devices. Now don’t get me wrong, in a sense they are kind of cool. [...]

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