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• Warner Premiere's Lost Boys The Tribe Explodes onto Blu-ray and DVD July 29th from Warner Home Video

  - 2008-06-02

  All-new chapter of the cult classic stars Tad Hilginbrinck, Angus Sutherland, Autumn Reeser, with appearances by Jamison Newlander, Corey Haim and Corey Feldman as Edgar Frog

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• Pushing Daisies, the Critically Acclaimed, Golden Globe-Nominated Television Series, Springs to Life on DVD and Blu-Ray™ Hi-Def September 16, 2008 from Warner Home Video

  - 2008-05-27

  Collector's Set to Showcase Nine Episodes on Three Discs with Never-Before-Seen Bonus Features

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• Warner Home Video Salutes Clint Eastwood's Signature Series June 3 with The Dirty Harry Ultimate Collector's Edition Box Set on DVD and Blu-ray™ Hi-Def

  - 2008-03-12

  Five-Film Digitally Re-Mastered Collection Includes New Documentaries, Five All-New Featurettes and Dirty Harry Memorabilia

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• Warner Home Video Makes a Triple-Play with Release of The Lake House in Three Formats on September 26; Marks the First Title to be Simultaneously Released on Standard DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray

  - 2006-09-13

  BURBANK, Calif. -- On September 26, Warner Home Video takes the next step in the high definition revolution when it releases The Lake House, a poignant, time-travel romance starring Keanu Reeves (Constantine, A Scanner Darkly) and Sandra Bullock (Crash, Miss Congeniality 2), on all three formats simultaneously day and date:...

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• Slow start on way to high-def fast track?(Digital Hollywood conference)

  - 2006-04-03

  SANTA MONICA, CALIF. -- The bumpy start for HD DVD and Blu-ray is likely to have little impact on either format's consumer launch, electronics execs behind both formats said during a panel at the Digital Hollywood conference here last week. &...

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• Once more, with feeling: Fox and Warner officials have rarely let an opportunity to snipe at each other go by.(Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.)(Warner Bros.)

  - 2005-08-08

  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: * Fox's move to support Blu-ray reflects the ill will between the studio and HD DVD supporter Warner, which began during development of the DVD. * And the format war itself has been generated...

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• Chapek: format battle bad for high def future: predicts consumers will be ready in 2006.(Technology)

  - 2004-11-01

  SANTA MONICA, CALIF. -- Further tussles between proponents of the competing HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats could damage a market primed for high-definition content, argued Bob Chapek, president of Buena Vista Home Entertainment and the Digital Ent SANTA MONICA, CALIF. -- Further tussles...

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• Forecast: clouds now but clear picture ahead. (High Definition).(for a high-definition DVD format)

  - 2003-06-09

  There may be only 5 million TV sets in the U.S. capable of displaying high- definition pictures, but that hasn't slowed the race to develop a high-definition DVD format. At least five different proposals are kicking around Hollywood and Japan ...

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• High-def DVD; A free-for-all: Myriad studio interests, formats, patents muddle progress.(studios are working to develop a workable format for HD-DVDs)

  - 2003-06-02

  High-definition video produces pictures of remarkably clarity, but the pictures might be the only thing clear about the development of an HD-DVD format. With the introduction of prerecorded HD-DVDs at least three years off, the studios most i ...

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