LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hollywood studios continue to see a slow turnaround in home video sales after a seven-year decline, as consumers increase the numbers of movies and TV shows they stream online and buy more high-definition Blu-ray discs as DVDs fall from favor. The Digital Entertainment Group, a trade group whose members include studios and electronics companies in the video business, is …
The European Commission on Tuesday said it had sent a “statement of objections” to 13 firms suspected of taking part in a cartel for optical disk drives, used to read or write data on CDs and DVDs.
Royal Philips Electronics NV (PHIA) said it was granted immunity from fines after the European Union sent makers of CD and DVD drives formal antitrust complaints over claims they colluded globally to fix prices.
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Customs officers at the Sydney Gateway Facility have foiled a novel attempt to smuggle nine packages of drugs into Australia.
The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that it will mail 454 refund checks totaling more than $2.9 million to victims of a scam by five companies and five people who promised they would earn thousands of dollars a year if they bought DVD rental machines.
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Nora Ephron, the essayist, author and filmmaker who thrived in the male-dominated worlds of movies and journalism, has died
(Reuters) – LoveFilm, Amazon’s European DVD and movie streaming service, has agreed to stream movies and TV shows from News Corp’s Twentieth Century Fox TV unit, adding content from another Hollywood studio to compete with Netflix’s six-month-old British service. The agreement gives LoveFilm exclusive access to older episodes of TV shows such as Fox’s “24” and the motorcycle drama “Sons of …
The animated Beatles movie “Yellow Submarine” has been painstakingly restored frame by frame for DVD release this year, the band’s holding company announced on Tuesday.
Penguins dressed in Santa Claus costumes are seen at Everland, South Korea’s largest amusement park, on December 19, 2008 in Yongin, South Korea. Christmas has become increasingly popular over the years in South Korea, which is the only East Asian country to recognise Christmas as a national holiday