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Barry Willis Jul 18, 1999 0 comments

After 20 years, one of the entertainment industry's most enduring management teams is calling it quits. On July 15, Robert A. Daly and Terry Semel, co-chairmen and co-CEOs of Warner Bros. film studio and Warner Bros. Music, informed Time Warner chief Gerald Levin that they would not renew their employment contracts. The two said they wish to explore other opportunities as "entertainment entrepreneurs."

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Jul 18, 1999 0 comments

The Digital Video Broadcasting Project has adopted Dolby Digital as its multichannel audio standard. The DVB Project is a consortium of more than 240 organizations in over 30 countries devoted to establishing worldwide standards for digital broadcasting. Members include broadcasters, manufacturers, network operators, and regulatory committees. The announcement was made July 6, 1999, by San Francisco-based Dolby Labs.

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Jul 11, 1999 0 comments

As reported last week, more than 1.1 million DVD-Video players were shipped through the first half of 1999. Additional information released by the DVD Video Group puts these numbers in perspective: DVD-Video experienced 300% growth in the second quarter of 1999, when more than 730,000 hardware units were shipped (compared to 170,000 in the second quarter of 1998). Further, the Group says that shipments for the first six months of 1999 constitute an increase of 881,000 units over the same period in 1998, also representing more than 300% growth. (Over 1 million units shipped in the first half of 1999; in the first six months of 1998, slightly more than 260,000 units shipped.)

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Jon Iverson Jul 11, 1999 0 comments

Last week, Panasonic Consumer Electronics announced the retail launch of its new digital VCR—or, as they call it, a D-VHS VCR. The new PV-HD1000 will begin shipping this month. It carries a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $999.95 and marks the first DTV-compatible VCR to hit the US market.

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Scott Wilkinson Jul 11, 1999 0 comments

Star Wars—Episode 1: The Phantom Menace might have grabbed all the attention as the first movie to be screened in the US from a digital source rather than a film print (see previous story), but it's not the only one to use the new technology. With virtually no fanfare at all, An Ideal Husband is being shown from a digital source at Laemmle's Sunset 5 theater in Los Angeles through July 15, 1999.

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Paula Nechak Jul 11, 1999 0 comments

Jason Patric, Irene Jacob, Ian Richardson, Ian Holm, Rod Steiger. Directed by John Badham. Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 (letterbox). Dolby Digital Surround 5.1. 108 minutes. 1997. Warner Bros. Home Video 14538. Rated R. $24.95.

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Jul 11, 1999 0 comments

For 20 years, Pioneer has been laserdisc's biggest booster. But that era of home entertainment ended July 6, when Pioneer Entertainment announced that it would no longer produce or supply laserdiscs. The software division of Pioneer Electronics made the decision in view of the growing popularity of DVD, which, along with VHS tape, accounts for more than 90% of their business. The announcement is most certainly the kiss of death for the beleaguered format.

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Barry Willis Jul 11, 1999 0 comments

A payout of as much as $275 million to Jeffery Katzenberg could be in the offing for Walt Disney Company, which agreed on July 6 to settle a five-year-old breach-of-contract suit brought by the former studio executive. One of Hollywood's longest-running and most bitter legal disputes was settled over the July 4 weekend at the Malibu estate of music mogul and DreamWorks partner David Geffen, who hammered out a deal with Stanley Gold, a Disney Company director and friend of Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Geffen is Katzenberg's partner in DreamWorks SKG, the film, music, and video company they formed with Steven Spielberg.

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Jul 04, 1999 0 comments

Last week, the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association (CEMA) reported that sales of DVD players have reached 1 million units so far this year. CEMA also announced its revised projections for total DVD-player unit sales in 1999, raising the previous prediction of 1.8 million to 3 million.

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Jul 04, 1999 0 comments

Twenty years ago, 60% of Americans said they would hesitate to see a movie if it were excessively violent. But according to an Associated Press poll released last week, a steady diet of action films over the last two decades have had a marked effect: Now, only 40% say that too much violence would keep them out of the theater.

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