WARNER HOME VIDEO DELAYS HIGH-DEF RELEASES

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WARNER HOME VIDEO DELAYS HIGH-DEF RELEASES
Monday, March 13 2006

Warner Home Video, which had said in January that it planned to be the first to release movies in the high-definition HD DVD format as it set a March 28 date, has now indicated it won't be able to meet that schedule. "To be honest, the outlook is tenuous _ we're still coming out with an initial slate, but we may be a week or two later; we just don't know," division president Ron Sanders told Home Media Retailing magazine.

RECENT MOVIES IN HI DEF COMING TO CABLE -- AT A PRICE
Wednesday, March 1 2006

Twentieth Century Fox is willing to make its movies available in high definition over cable and satellite within 60 days after they are released in theaters for $25-$30 per view, News Corp President and CEO Peter Chernin told a Bear Stearns media conference in Palm Beach, FL Tuesday. Asked about such a seemingly stiff price, Chernin observed that some 1 million Americans purchased home theater systems worth $25,000 each last year and that such users (more)

SONY ANNOUNCES PRICES FOR HIGH-DEFINITION DISCS
Wednesday, February 8 2006
Sony Pictures announced pricing on Tuesday for upcoming home-video releases on high-definition Blu-ray discs. Older "catalog" movie titles, it said, will wholesale for $17.95; newer releases, for $23.45, about 15 percent more than conventional DVDs. Sony said it would not suggest any retail prices for the titles. Meanwhile, Home Media Retailing magazine on Tuesday quoted Disney CEO Robert Iger as saying that he was "bullish" on high-definition DVDs. "I realize it's going to go through (more)