People are more driven to buy physical copies of a movie if that DVD box is adding to a collection (like with Harry Potter).
"The Beatles Anthology" DVD, released in April, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's music video chart and marked the biggest music video DVD box set debut in the SoundScan era.
The most flagrant of these miscarriages of justice occurred in 1981, when the Motion Picture Academy chose Robert Redford's plodding direction of "Ordinary People" over Mr. Scorsese's bravura work in "Raging Bull, " which is the most powerful of the four films in this new DVD box.
It was by advertising for volunteer zombies on social networking site Facebook, borrowing make-up from Hollywood blockbusters and teaching himself how to produce special effects that thrifty director Price was able to make the film for less than the price of a zombie DVD box set.
He writes songs at a remarkable rate, so instead of an album, he's put out a box set, complete with four CDs, a DVD, a wooden box and even a medallion.
Crack open a set-top box or a DVD player and you'll almost certainly find a MIPS chip.
To complement its benchmark Greta Garbo box on standard DVD, Warner Archive has released 10 more of her films.
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It stuffs a hard drive that can store music, photos and video into a box with a DVD player, Internet access and a satellite or digital cable decoder.
Apparently, the AV center is the mystery box on the shelf below the PDP in the picture above which will magically bundle the various signals from your tethered devices such as DVD, set-top box, etc. and then feed 'em up to the TV over 802.11a WiFi.
Foreign box office, DVD-sales and merchandising can do wonders for a film that grosses poorly in the U.S. Among the films on our list, only The 13th Warrior, an epic 1999 flop starring Antonio Banderas, didn't report a worldwide gross that was higher than its production costs.
We then looked at each movie's estimated budget (not including marketing costs, which are susceptible to accounting chicanery) and box-office, DVD and television earnings to figure out an operating income for each film.
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We then used data gathered for our annual Celebrity 100 list to calculate each star's estimated earnings on each film (including upfront pay and any earnings from the movie's box-office receipts, DVD and TV sales).
Surprisingly, perhaps, the only DVD rejected outright by the BBFC was a box set of season two of the TV series Weeds.
Box office popularity also spawns higher DVD sales and content licensing.
But the box for the Windows 8 Pro DVD I was using only suggested running this utility and checking with the manufacturer's website, in tiny type at the bottom of its back cover.
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Revenues from DVD sales are often higher than revenues from the box office for animated movies.
Lavinia Carey of Respect for Film says that while box office earnings may appear strong, DVD sales are suffering.
The first step in calculating our payback figures required adding up the film's worldwide box office and U.S. DVD revenues.
The first step in calculating our payback figures required adding up the film's worldwide box office and U.S. DVD revenues for films released prior to June 2007.
While 77 of the top 100 movies at the box office in 2012 were available on DVD at the beginning of January 2013, you could only rent up to 46 online.
The impact will not only be visible in the box office business, but also percolate down to DVD and licensing sales.
Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people) has already announced that it's working on a box that will serve up videogames, web access and DVD movies.
Due to the first film's exceptional box office performance, the studio is considering pushing the DVD release to five months after its theatrical opening, as opposed to the usual four-month window, according to people familiar with the matter.
At first I hooked up the cable box to the new TV via component video cables and the new DVD player via HDMI (with optical out to the sound system).
Vudu general manager Edward Lichty joined the company from TiVo just before the box launched and helped shift the strategy, abandoning the box and getting the service embedded into Internet-connected TVs and DVD players.
TiVo ( TIVO - news - people ) just before the box launched and helped shift the strategy, abandoning the box and getting the service embedded into Internet-connected TVs and DVD players.
This for a box that has no other purpose than to rent movies, when their DVD player can do that and be used to play the movies they own.
With box office sales on track to be the highest ever this year but DVD sales continuing their downward trajectory, studios are much more worried about enhancing what they earn from home viewing than from the theaters.
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