Owners of Blu-ray Disc players that were marketed by Samsung Electronics last year are reporting playback problems with titles from two major studios, after installing a firmware u... More
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Samsung Working To Fix Blu-ray Players’ Firmware Glitch
Blu-ray Producers Turn Out For ‘3D-Focus’
By Mel Lambert Interest in creating Blu-ray 3D titles remains on the rise in Hollywood, with BluFocus’s invitation-only “3D-Focus” seminar, held Aug. 3 at the headquarters o... More
Redbox Rolls Out $1.50-A-Night Blu-ray Rentals Nationwide
As Redbox president Mitch Lowe hinted at the Entertainment Supply Chain Academy conference in June, the company is rolling out Blu-ray rentals in its kiosks nationwide for $1.50 a ... More
Industry Coalition Formed To Promote Direct Mail Applications For Optical Media
DiscMail Direct, an industry coalition representing leading manufacturers, packagers and creative services companies involved in the use of optical media for direct mail applicatio... More
Release Window Wrap: What Does ‘Alice’ Deal Portend For Home Entertainment?
Theatrical distribution insiders tell Variety that it took a big title such as Disney’s “Alice In Wonderland” to “redraw the line” on release windows. “No exhibitor wan... More
Wal-Mart And Vudu: Movie Streaming Service Ranks High In Studios’ New Distribution Heirarchy
Wal-Mart is getting back into the digital entertainment distribution business with its planned acquisition of the Vudu movie download and streaming service. The deal, which is expe... More
Redbox Relents, Signs Window Deal With Warner
Furthering its efforts to establish an exclusive sales window for DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and video-on-demand services, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has reached a two-year deal wit... More
DVD, Blu-ray Sales Lift Viacom Profits In Fourth Quarter
Viacom reported Feb. 11 a $214 million increase in fourth-quarter profitability for its filmed entertainment unit, reflecting among other things a higher year-over-year contributio... More
BluFocus Lauches Testing Lab, Webinar For 3D Home Entertainment
With studios looking to bring their first 3D home entertainment products to market later this year, DVD and Blu-ray quality assurance firm BluFocus is launching a suite of 3D testi... More
Technicolor Picks Up Warner DVD Business
Following Cinram’s announcement that Warner Home Video was ending its exclusive relationship with the DVD services company, rival disc manufacturer Technicolor says that it will ... More
Blu-ray Beginning To Gain On DVD Player Market: In-Stat
High-volume shipments of Blu-ray players, most of which feature network connectivity, are finally making inroads into the broader disc player and recorder market, reports In-Stat. ... More
Studios Sued Over Video Patents by Alcatel-Associated Trust
Walt Disney Co., some of News Corp.’s Fox units and NBC Universal Inc. have been sued by a trust associated with Alcatel-Lucent SA, accused of infringing patents for video compre... More
Research Firm Urges 3D TV Makers To Focus On Interoperability
The 3D Blu-ray specification may be completed, but consumer electronics makers have more groundwork before a 3D home entertainment market can take root. Next up: ensuring interoper... More
Blu-ray Disc Association Finalizes 3D Spec, Eyes 2010 Release
Consumers could be watching Blu-ray movies in 3D next year with the Blu-ray Disc Association’s completion of 3D specifications for the format, announced today. The Blu-ray 3D sp... More
Blu-ray: All The Marketing Hallmarks Of A Hollywood Blockbuster
These days, marketers of Hollywood films routinely look for increased awareness from non-traditional sources, including news coverage of the marketing campaigns themselves in The N... More
RCDb Supplies BD-Live For Netflix’s PS3 Service
Netflix is pushing the envelope of Blu-ray’s BD-Live technology with its “instant streaming” disc that brings the company’s online video renting service to PlayStation 3 ow... More
Notes From Blu-Con: Studios Look For Sell-Through To Rebound As Recession Lifts
Executives convening at Blu-Con 2.0 in Los Angeles today are trading insights and observations on the state of the Blu-ray Disc business. Among them: • Studio chiefs expect home... More
Giant Interactive Launches BD-Live Service
Blu-ray and DVD producer Giant Interactive is marketing BD-Connect, a software solution for adding BD-Live interactivity to Blu-ray discs, to North American content owners under an... More
Blu-ray Conference To Examine 3D Specs
Integration of 3D into the Blu-ray Disc format is among the technological “coming attractions” that DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group plans to discuss next week at the secon... More
Sony To Offer Netflix Streaming To PS3 Users
Netflix is gaining another digital link to living-room TVs, in a deal with Sony to offer the company’s “Watch Instantly” streaming service via Web-connected PlayStation 3 con... More