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Universal Holds Breath, Turns Blu
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Mark Fleischmann • Feb 20, 2008 • 0 comments
Buried in yesterday's avalanche of HD DVD coverage was this nugget: Universal, until now an HD DVD stalwart, will waste no time in switching to Blu-ray.
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Universal Laughs at the Hangman
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Mark Fleischmann • Sep 23, 2008 • 0 comments
Reversing a lengthy losing streak, the Universal Music Group has become the first of the big four record labels to significantly increase revenue in many years. The Vivendi-owned company posted a nearly five percent increase for the first half of 2008, even after adjusting for currency fluctuations.
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Universal Next-Gen Player? How About A Universal Disc?
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• Sep 24, 2006 • 0 comments

Reports have circulated the web that engineers from Warner have filed for a patent application for a triple format disc that would have DVD on one side of the disc and both Blu-ray and HD DVD layers on the other side. Whatever player you put it into, it just plays. Goodbye, triple inventory releases!
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Universal Pictures in Promo Deal with ReplayTV
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Barry Willis • Sep 03, 2000 • 0 comments

New movies from Universal Pictures will soon be advertised through an untried channel: interactive television.
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Universal Remote Control
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• Aug 18, 2003 • 0 comments

A better remote control is on the wish list of almost every home theater enthusiast. Universal Remote Control, Inc. has introduced two products worth investigating by anyone whose remotes have been hampered by environmental or architectural constraints.
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Universal Slashes CD Prices
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Mark Fleischmann • Mar 19, 2010 • 0 comments
One of the four largest music labels plans to test a new pricing scheme that will slash list prices on all single discs to somewhere between six and ten dollars.
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Universal to Embrace DTS-HD Master Audio
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Mark Fleischmann • May 02, 2008 • 0 comments
Universal will support lossless DTS-HD Master Audio in many of its initial Blu-ray releases.
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Universal To Release Over 100 HD DVD Titles In 2007
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• Jan 25, 2007 • 0 comments

Universal Studios, the only Hollywood studio currently supporting HD DVD exclusively, announced that it will release over 100 HD DVD titles in 2007, comprised of new and classic films and television shows. Many will be new titles released day and date with DVD discs, and over 90% of the titles released will be HD DVD/DVD combo discs.
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Universal to Sell BD/DVD Combo Discs
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Mark Fleischmann • Dec 09, 2009 • 0 comments
Universal Studios Home Entertainment will begin selling double-sided discs with Blu-ray on one side and DVD on the other.
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Universal to Test No-DRM Downloads
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Mark Fleischmann • Aug 10, 2007 • 0 comments
Recent moves by Universal Music Group, the world's largest music label, may result in a more freewheeling DRM-free download retail environment.
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Universal Tries Exotic Downloads
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Mark Fleischmann • Aug 08, 2008 • 0 comments
Critics of the music industry often say we wish the major labels would quit bellyaching, forget the lawsuits, and just offer a better legal-download product. That's the best way to fight illegal downloads, and that's what the Universal Music Group is doing with its new Lost Tunes download service.
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Universal Will Not Renew HD DVD Pact
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Mark Fleischmann • Jan 10, 2008 • 0 comments
Universal Home Entertainment will not renew its exclusivity pact with HD DVD, Variety has reported.
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Unsinkable Titanic Sails On Past $1 Billion
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Barry Willis • Mar 08, 1998 • 0 comments

Who'd've thunk it? The movie-going public can't get enough of James Cameron's Titanic, the three-hour disaster flick starring the mismatched Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as a pair of doomed lovers.
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Unsure Times Ahead for Satellite TV?
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Barry Willis • Nov 25, 2001 • 0 comments

Cable companies may be the accidental beneficiaries of the recently announced EchoStar-DirecTV deal, in which smaller direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service EchoStar won approval from General Motors to buy its subsidiary Hughes Electronics Corporation, operator of DirecTV.
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Up and Down In January
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Jon Iverson • Mar 17, 2002 • 0 comments

Although broadcasters still have until 2006 to implement DTV, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is reporting that manufacturer-to-dealer sales of digital television (DTV) products continued to beat past year performance. For the latest figures, DTV products are defined to include integrated sets and monitors displaying active vertical scanning lines of at least 480p and, in the case of integrated sets, receiving and decoding ATSC terrestrial digital transmissions.
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