Oscar Voters Get Special DVD Players, But No Discs
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An apparently foolproof plan to prevent freebie DVDs sent to awards voters from ending up as fodder for movie pirates is unlikely to take effect this awards season.
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What's a movie without any actors? Here are some of the year's best performances.
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So Toshiba finally threw in the towel on its HD DVD format today, making Blu-ray  the winner in the hi-def war. Consumers, however, could be the losers because without competition, there's no incentive for cheaper Blu-ray players.
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By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 18--Hollywood is sending in the A-team -- Amazon and Apple -- on a  kind of mission impossible: persuade consumers to download movies online,  instead of buying or renting DVDs.   This might be the technology of the future.
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For all the talk of  Oscar gold, this year the best picture winner will have to look  to DVD to see a payout.
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Now that many of its  most celebrated movies have been released as lavish multidisc  collector's editions, Warner Home Video is going the minimalist  route and reissuing such classics as "Gone With the Wind," "The  Wizard of Oz" and "Ben Hur" in slim packs as part of its new  "The Essential Classics Collections" line.
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Even though DVD sales  have been falling for much of the year and next-generation  discs aren&#39;t having much of an impact, studio executives are  hoping for a fourth-quarter bounty from a parade of high-octane  theatrical hits and pricey collectable gift sets.
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Choosing a DVD player used to be simple: progressive scan or no progressive scan? These days, even the DVD players on sale for $29 at Wal-Mart feature progressive scanning.
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Wal-Mart said Thursday that it plans to stock about 2,800 of its stores with a special Academy Awards section of DVDs including popular titles that many of its consumers may own on VHS. The company is clearing out the last of its inventory of the aging format and spots a new market opportunity.
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Electronics companies are at war over next-generation DVDs
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The two movie disc formats that are competing to replace the DVD have had a rocky start, with clunky first-generation players and an audience that's been reluctant to buy them for fear of betting on the losing side.
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Tussle over next-generation DVD format could alienate consumers.
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Arts & entertainment: The Oscars' most famous post-awards party will not go ahead this year in support of ongoing writers' strike
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Some of this year's most interesting Oscar battles revolve around what Academy Award voters hear -- rather than see.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - DualDisc and DVD(plus) discs have  until now been devoid of graphics, apart from limited text on  the inner ring. Because both sides of these CD/DVD hybrids  contain optical data, it has been impossible to apply graphics  to them.
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The Academy Award voting now begins in earnest.
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So he wasn't elected president. Big deal. How many other presidential candidates have an Emmy and an Oscar to brag about?