``The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring'' Dominates the 2003 Home Entertainment DVD Technical Awards.Entertainment Editors/Business Editors/High-Tech Writers VSDA VSDA Video Software Dealers Association Home Entertainment 2003 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 2003 New Line Home Entertainment's Special Extended Edition of The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring dominated the 2003 Home Entertainment DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. Technical Awards, which were announced today by the Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA). The Home Entertainment DVD Technical Awards honor DVD titles that have demonstrated the most innovative and entertaining features through the use of the latest DVD technology. The winners were unveiled this morning during the opening ceremonies of VSDA's Home Entertainment 2003, the annual VSDA convention, taking place today through Thursday at the Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Nevada. The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring received a total of five DVD Technical Awards, including Best Overall DVD Presentation -- Theatrical Release, Best Supplementary Material, and Best DVD Commentary. The 2003 Home Entertainment DVD Technical Award Winners are: -- Best Overall DVD Presentation -- Theatrical Release: The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (Special Extended Edition) -- New Line Home Entertainment -- Best Overall DVD Presentation -- Non-Theatrical Release: Band Of Brothers -- HBO/Warner Home Video -- Best Overall DVD Presentation for Adult Product: Gladiator gladiator (Latin; swordsman) Professional combatant in ancient Rome who engaged in fights to the death as sport. Gladiators originally performed at Etruscan funerals, the intent being to give the dead man armed attendants in the next world. -- Special Collector's Edition -- Private North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. -- Best DVD Commentary: The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (Special Extended Edition) -- New Line Home Entertainment -- Best Use of Menu Features: Who Framed Roger Rabbit -- Buena Vista/Touchstone Home Entertainment -- Best Audio Presentation: The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (Special Extended Edition) -- New Line Home Entertainment -- Best Overall Use of DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. Features: Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone -- Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980. -- Best Re-Mastered DVD: Singin' In The Rain Singin’ in the Rain downpour doesn’t dampen singer’s spirits. [Pop. Music: Fordin, 355] See : Cheerfulness -- Warner Home Video -- Best Direct Digital Transfer: Ice Age -- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment -- Best Video Transfer From a Non-Digital Source: The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (Special Extended Edition) -- New Line Home Entertainment -- Best Supplementary Material Presentation: The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (Special Extended Edition) -- New Line Home Entertainment -- Best Easter Egg An undocumented function hidden in software that may or may not be sanctioned by management. Easter Eggs are secret "goodies" found by word of mouth or accident. They are also used in video games, movies, TV commercials, DVDs, CDs, CD-ROMs and every so often in hardware. : Spider-Man -- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment -- Best Music DVD -- Theatrical Release: The Last Waltz -- Special Edition -- MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. Home Entertainment -- Best Music DVD -- Non-Theatrical Release: Miles Davis: Live in Munich -- Pioneer Entertainment Two new categories were created this year: Best Direct Digital Transfer and Best Easter Egg. A blue-ribbon panel made up of home entertainment journalists were asked to review and rate over 135 entries considered in a total of 14 categories. Making up this year's panel were Marc Bernardin, Entertainment Weekly; Todd Doogen, The Digital Bits/CPU Magazine; Jeffrey Howard, The Movie Guys; Guido Henkel, DVD Review; Scott Hettrick, Video Business Magazine/DVD Exclusive/Variety/Los Angeles Times; Bill Hunt, The Digital Bits; Jeffrey Kern, Audiovideoforum.com; Geoffrey Kleinman, DVDTalk.com; Laurence Lerman, Video Business Magazine; Mike Mayo, Video Hound's DVD Guide; Dave Neil, The Movie Guys; Brett Sporich, The Hollywood Reporter; and Ralph Tribbey, DVD Release Report/Video Store Magazine. To be considered, the DVD had to be released between April 1, 2002 and March 31, 2003. Every DVD company, regardless of its size, was asked to choose their best titles in each category. More than 20 DVD suppliers/distributors participated. VSDA's Home Entertainment 2003, the East Coast Video Show, and the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo The AVN Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE) is a trade show held each January in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is sponsored by the Adult Video News Magazine (AVN). The AVN Awards show is held during the Expo at the nearby The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino. are organized through Home Entertainment Events (HEE HEE Higher Education Establishments ), in which the Video Software Dealers Association is a partner. For more information about Home Entertainment Events and its shows, please send an email to hee@advanstar.com. Established in 1981, the Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA) is a not-for-profit international trade association for the $20 billion home entertainment industry. VSDA represents more than 1,500 companies throughout the United States, Canada and a dozen other countries. Its members operate more than 12,500 retail outlets in the U.S. that sell and/or rent DVDs, VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. cassettes and console video games. Membership comprises the full spectrum of video retailers (from single store operators to large chains), video distributors, the home video divisions of major and independent motion picture studios, and other related businesses that constitute and support the home entertainment industry. |
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