Buena Vista Home Entertainment, New Line Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video Promote Next-Generation of Internet Enhanced DVD Format.Business & Entertainment Editors BEVERLY HILLS Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2002 Buena Vista Home Entertainment, New Line Home Entertainment, and 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. announced today their support for enhancing 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. movie releases with content that takes advantage of new features offered by next-generation consumer electronic DVD players. These Enhanced DVD Players will expand the consumer entertainment experience by blending the rich-media features of DVD with dynamic Internet content. This marriage of technologies will enable consumers to access advanced and online features in the living room, thus complementing today's experience on the substantial installed base 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. enabled PC's. In conjunction with the DVD Forum's efforts to create a new, optional standard for advanced DVD capability, a demonstration of these advanced features will be presented by InterActual Technologies, Inc. at the Digital Hollywood conference (www.digitalhollywood.com), Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel, Rodeo rodeo (rō`dēō, rōdā`ō), public exhibition of the skill of cowboys in various activities. Events include riding broncos, riding steers, "bulldogging" steers, roping and tying steers and calves, the use of the lasso, and Room, September 24th and 25th, 2002. "The possibilities of this format are endless once DVD-Video can be blended with related, dynamic Internet content and enhanced ROM data for playback on a consumer DVD player," says Jim Wuthrich, Vice President, Worldwide Interactive Marketing, Warner Home Video. "This demonstration, developed in partnership with InterActual Technologies, shows just a few examples of how DVD can be enhanced with features traditionally only available on PC's, including enhanced menus, searchable video, and online features such as group events, consumer polling, voting for your favorite scenes, updated commentaries and biographies, online challenges, and links back to other online web sites," says Wuthrich. "The DVD Forum A membership organization devoted to defining DVD standards for read-only, rewritable, write-once, video and audio use. Members participate in working groups to develop new standards. has been actively working with studios and InterActual over the last year and a half to define a specification that offers consumers a compelling, enhanced entertainment experience while offering system manufacturers a cost-effective implementation," says Hisashi Yamada Hisashi Yamada (Japanese:山田 久志, born July 29, 1948 in Akita, Japan) was a Japanese baseball pitcher for the Hankyu Braves in Nippon Professional Baseball from 1969 to 1988. of Toshiba and senior representative of the DVD Forum. "The tight link between Internet connectivity and video content will be unique to this type of platform, as the content owners will be in direct control of embedding dynamic content and Internet-enhanced components, either directly on the DVD disc or on a web site that is accessible from the disc," says Yamada. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Benn Carr, Vice President, Technology, Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney Pictures and Television, a key aspect of this format is ensuring that both on-disc and online assets are seamlessly displayed to the consumer. "Consumers will only embrace this new technology if it offers a robust solution that is fast and responsive, has rich graphics capabilities, provides flawless presentation of audio and video content, and is easy to use," says Carr. "These next-generation DVD players offer New Line an opportunity to expand on our current DVD-ROM creative efforts, currently targeted at the 22 million U.S. DVD-ROM enabled PC households," said Michael Mulvihill, Vice President of Content Development for New Line Home Entertainment. "By leveraging our existing development process with InterActual, we are excited about offering compelling, enhanced features such as Script-to-Screen where consumers can view the screenplay while watching the movie. We can also offer access to an exclusive online community accessible only with our unique infinifilm DVD releases," says Mulvihill. ABOUT WARNER HOME VIDEO With operations in 78 international territories -- more than the video division of any other studio -- Warner Home Video (WHV WHV Wilhelmshaven (Northern Germany, Headquarters of the German Navy) WHV Warner Home Video WHV Woodchuck Hepatitis Virus WHV Working Holiday Visa WHV Westdeutscher Hockey-Verband (West German hockey association) ) commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. WHV's film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Pictures, Turner Entertainment Company, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy Home Video and New Line Home Entertainment. ABOUT THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY Walt Disney Home Entertainment is distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., a recognized industry leader. A subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, Buena Vista Home Entertainment Inc. is the marketing, sales and distribution company for all Walt Disney, Touchstone touchstone Black, silica-containing stone used in assaying to determine the purity of gold and silver. The metal to be assayed is rubbed on the touchstone, and then a sample of metal of known purity is rubbed on the stone right next to it. , Miramax, Dimension and Buena Vista DVDs and videocassettes. ABOUT NEW LINE HOME ENTERTAINMENT New Line Home Entertainment distributes all of New Line Cinema and Fine Line Features theatrical films on 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. and DVD, including the new premium DVD brand infinifilm. The company also distributes feature films and non-theatrical programs acquired or produced by New Line Home Entertainment and New Line Television. New Line Cinema is the leading independent producer and distributor of theatrical films. New Line also licenses its films to ancillary markets including cable and broadcast television as well as in all international markets. ABOUT INTERACTUAL InterActual Technologies, Inc. (http://www.interactual.com) is the leading provider of software and services that enhance DVD movie viewing on computers, including exclusive features that integrate rich-media DVD content with the Internet. InterActual Player InterActual Player, originally known as the "PC Friendly" player, is a DVD player for Microsoft Windows, included on over 1500 DVDs, mostly from Hollywood studios. In addition to providing DVD playback control it makes available extra material on some DVDs, including new , and its predecessor PCFriendly(R), have allowed millions of DVD viewers to enjoy a new dimension of entertainment and information. 80% of the top 20 US major studio box office movies for 2001 utilized InterActual's software to provide for an enriched DVD experience on today's significant worldwide installed base of DVD-ROM enabled PC's. Through its membership in the DVD Forum, InterActual is providing industry guidance on the migration of enhanced DVD features to next-generation consumer electronic and other convergent set-top platforms. InterActual also maintains an online community (http://inventor.interactual.com) for professional developers interested in integrating the features of the InterActual platform for entertainment and marketing content. |
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