DVD News articles from May 2002

DVD News archives from May 2002

DVDINSIDER: NIST Showcases DVD Technology At DVD 2002: Standards, Applications, Technology Conference.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)
May 2, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will showcase the latest innovations in DVD technology when it hosts DVD...

DVDINSIDER: Lucasfilm THX Reports First-Generation Certification Program For Digital Cinema Products.
May 2, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Lucasfilm THX has revealed a first-generation certification program for digital cinema products, and also announced that the first...

DVDINSIDER: Stomp Unveils BackUp MyPC Data Backup & Disaster Recovery Solution.
May 2, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Stomp, Inc., has unveiled the latest version of its BackUp MyPC data backup and disaster recovery solution. The new version 4.81...

DVDINSIDER: InterVideo Releases WinDVD 4.(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). InterVideo, Inc. has reported the availability of WinDVD 4, the latest version of its popular DVD player. WinDVD 4 features over 30 new...

DVDINSIDER: Argus Chooses Cirrus's DVD Processor, Digital-To-Analog Converter & DV Encoder For Bundle.(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Cirrus Logic Inc. revealed that its CS98010 DVD processor, CS4340 digital-to-analog converter, and CS4955 digital video encoder have...

DVDINSIDER: Spatializer Audio Laboratories Reports Improved 1Q Financial Results.(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Spatializer Audio Laboratories, Inc. reported improved financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2002. Revenues for the...

DVDINSIDER: Compressed Audio Players Moving Into The Mainstream.(Brief Article)
May 9, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Compressed audio players are moving into the mainstream, and are increasingly common since they push beyond the portable flash-based...

DVDINSIDER: Cinemagic Wins Five Telly Awards.(Brief Article)
May 9, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Cinemagic Studios has won five Telly Awards in the categories of: Fund Raising, Health and Medicine, Recruitment, Public Relations and...

DVDINSIDER: Xonen Hosts Private Previews & Trials Of QUAD.(advanced Glass Mastering System)(Brief Article)
May 9, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Xonen Technologies has revealed that the company is hosting private corporate previews and trial runs of the QUAD, an advanced Glass...

DVDINSIDER: Cirrus Logic Introduces High Performance ADS At Consumer Prices.
May 10, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Cirrus Logic Inc. has introduced its CS5361 and CS5351 high performance analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that deliver professional...

DVDINSIDER: Pioneer & USCO Enter Three-Year Partnership.
May 10, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. and USCO Logistics have reported a three-year partnership for a complete warehousing and distribution...

DVDINSIDER: Navarre Inks Distribution Agreement With Roxio.
May 10, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Navarre Corporation, a distributor of home entertainment products, reported that it has secured a distribution agreement with Santa...

DVDINSIDER: NIST & DVDA Host Industry Conference In Maryland.
May 13, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in conjunction with the DVD Association (DVDA) is hosting the one of the...

DVDINSIDER: ESS Technology Reports Record DVD Decoder Solution Shipments In April.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 13, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). ESS Technology revealed that during the month of April, the company shipped over two million units of its advanced DVD decoder...

DVDINSIDER: Cirrus Logic Reports Financial Results For 4Q & Fiscal Year.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 13, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Cirrus Logic Inc. has reported its financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2002, ended March 30, 2002. Fiscal fourth...

DVDINSIDER: ESS Technology Licenses NEC's MPEG2 Technology.(Brief Article)
May 14, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). ESS Technology revealed that it has licensed NEC Corporation's production-proven MPEG2 encoder technology. In this agreement, ESS will...

DVDINSIDER: Harry Potter's Magic Sinks Titanic In UK.(Brief Article)
May 14, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Warner Home Video (WHV) has confirmed that Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (which is named Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's...

DVDINSIDER: Vital Statistics.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 14, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). According to VideoScan's First Alert Reporting Retailers, DVD title sales for the week ending May 5, 2002 were 2,491,000, slightly...

DVDINSIDER: DVD CCA & CPAC Postpone Evaluation Of Macrovision's Watermarking Technology.(Brief Article)
May 15, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Macrovision Corporation has been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) believes more work and study is required...

DVDINSIDER: RDVDC Re-Elects Chairman & Appoints Deputy-Chairman.(Brief Article)
May 15, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). The Recordable DVD Council (RDVDC), which promotes the recordable DVD formats of the DVD Forum, held its first annual general meeting...

DVDINSIDER: NEXPAK Introduces Next-Generation Theft Deterrent DVD Packaging.(Brief Article)
May 15, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). NEXPAK has introduced the next generation in theft deterrent DVD packaging with capacity for increasing market demands in DVD sales....

DVDINSIDER: DTV Sales Soar Through April.(digital television products)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 16, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Representing the largest year-to-year monthly sales spike in digital television (DTV) products this year, April 2002 DTV unit sales...

DVDINSIDER: Hitachi Dolby Laboratories' Licensed Product Sales Surpass One-Billion Milestone.(Brief Article)
May 16, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Dolby Laboratories has passed a major milestone, having sold more than one billion licensed products containing its sound...

DVDINSIDER: Sonic Solutions Ships DVD Producer Version 3.1.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 16, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Sonic Solutions reports the release of its award-winning DVD Producer 3.1 software DVD authoring suite. Signaling a new standard for...

DVDINSIDER: Verance Issues Response Regarding Reexamination of U.S. Patent No. 5,850,481.(Brief Article)
May 21, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Verance Corp., a provider of tools and services to track, manage and enhance the use of media content globally, has issued the...

DVDINSIDER: Sonic Solutions Launches DVD at Work Eight-City Seminar.(Brief Article)
May 21, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Sonic Solutions has reported launch of an eight-city seminar series entitled DVD at Work to be offered May through July of this year....

DVDINSIDER: Philips Presents Single-Chip MPEG2 CODEC For Efficient DVD-Recorder Development.(Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 21, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Royal Philips Electronics has unveiled a single-chip MPEG2 CODEC, which will enable DVD manufacturers to quickly develop...

DVDINSIDER: DVD Player Sales Strengthen In Spring.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 22, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Maintaining a strong lead in video product category sales, DVD players again topped the charts in April, according to...

DVDINSIDER: Rimage Reports U.S. Government's Sale Of Its Forfeited Stock.(Brief Article)
May 22, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Rimage Corporation revealed that the U.S. government has completed the sale of approximately 550,000 Rimage shares to third parties...

DVDINSIDER: Cirrus Logic's DVD Processor & Converter Power TCL's DVD Player Line.(Brief Article)
May 22, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Cirrus Logic Inc. has unveiled a major design win for its CS98100 DVD video processor and CS4360 converter, which power TCL Holdings...

DVDINSIDER: Vital Statistics.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 23, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). According to VideoScan's First Alert Reporting Retailers DVD title sales for the week ending May 12, 2002 were 2,980,000, up from the...

DVDINSIDER: Sonic Solutions & Adaptec Ink Distribution Agreement.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Sonic Solutions has entered into a distribution agreement with Adaptec to bring Sonic's popular MyDVD and DVDit! applications to...

DVDINSIDER: Netflix Commences IPO.(Brief Article)
May 23, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Netflix, Inc. has announced the initial public offering of 5.5 million shares of its common stock at a price of $15.00 per share. The...

DVDINSIDER: Cinram Inks Exclusive, Multi-Year Agreement With Artisan Home Entertainment.(Cinram International, Inc. )(Artisan Home Entertainment)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
May 24, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Furthering an existing relationship, Cinram International, Inc. and Artisan Home Entertainment jointly announced a multi-year agreement...

DVDINSIDER: Henninger Vision Completes DVD-Audio Sampler Disc For DTS Entertainment.(Brief Article)
May 24, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Henninger Vision has completed an exclusive DVD-Audio Sampler Disc for DTS Entertainment. Created to fully demonstrate the...

DVDINSIDER: Harry Potter Conjures Over 100,000 Pre-Orders At Amazon.com.(Brief Article)
May 24, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Amazon.com reported that it has already received more than 100,000 pre-orders for the DVD of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,...

DVDINSIDER: Pinnacle Systems Presents Pinnacle Edition.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 28, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Pinnacle Systems, Inc. unveils Pinnacle Edition, a powerful professional video editing and DVD authoring software. Pinnacle Edition is...

DVDINSIDER: Intersil Acquires Elantec Semiconductor.(Brief Article)
May 28, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Intersil Corporation has reported the completion of its acquisition of Elantec Semiconductor, Inc. upon receiving shareholder approval...

DVDINSIDER: Digital Storage Distributes Rimage's Family Of Desktop DVD & CD Publishers.(Brief Article)
May 28, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Rimage Corporation has partnered with Digital Storage, Inc. to offer the Rimage Family of Desktop CD and DVD publishers to a broader...

DVDINSIDER: Sonic Licenses RAVISENT's Technology From Axeda.(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Axeda Systems Inc., and Sonic Solutions have entered into an agreement under which Axeda will license RAVISENT's software DVD player...

DVDINSIDER: Software Architects Releases WriteDVD! Pro Version 4.0.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 29, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Software Architects has released commercially its WriteDVD! Pro v4.0 for MS Windows and Apple systems for a list price of $99.95....

DVDINSIDER: Zoran Ships Vaddis DVD Processor ICs To Nintaus.(Brief Article)
May 29, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Zoran Corporation has begun shipping its Vaddis DVD processor ICs to Nintaus Electronics Corporation to run a wide range of new DVD...

DVDINSIDER: STMicroelectronics Supplies Pioneer With DVD Chipset.(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
May 30, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). STMicroelectronics revealed it is supplying Pioneer with production volumes of a complete DVD chipset for the customer's 2002 DVD...

DVDINSIDER: Transfer To DVD, Get Special Feature Material FREE.(YesVideo Inc.)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
May 30, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Do you remember the first time you discovered the "added bonus" material on your favorite DVD? Perhaps it was the hilarious outtakes...

DVDINSIDER: Pioneer Selects Sonic's MyDVD 3.5 Video Suite For Its Fourth-Generation DVD-Recorders.(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
May 30, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Pioneer Electronics (USA) has selected Sonic Solutions' MyDVD 3.5 Video Suite to provide integrated DVD recording, video editing and...

DVDINSIDER: RentMyDVD.com Sees Variety Of Alliances Between Traditional Video Industry Players, Online Rental Services.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 31, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). With the success of Netflix' initial public offering, other online DVD rental firms are taking a hard look at alliances that will...

DVDINSIDER: Canopus Ships Stand-Alone Transcoding Software Tool.(Canopus Corp. introduces the ProCoder)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 31, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Canopus Corporation, makers of award-winning, digital video editing systems, reported that its ProCoder is now available. Featuring...

DVDINSIDER: Samsung Sets The Stage For Affordable, True Digital Entertainment Experience For The Home Theater.(Samsung Electronics America introduces digital television)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 31, 2002... DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2002 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Samsung Electronics America is making cutting-edge digital entertainment technology an affordable reality for today's home theater or...