Cameron wrote, produced, directed and edited Avatar himself and will continue to earn from the DVD, future 3-D DVD releases of the film and whatever other versions Fox can come up with to continue milking the original film for every penny.
FORBES: James Cameron Proving Us Right With 'Avatar' Sequels
The history of 3-D movies coming out on DVD is limited and until Avatar, most 3-D movies were aimed at kids and kids movies tend to do better on DVD regardless (as they make great babysitters).
It handles video, voice, data, DVD and 3-D gaming, a feat that set-top leader General Instrument has yet to pull off.
Sharp is considering unveiling laptops later this year that can convert any DVD movie into 3-D.
The movie has a short run on the big-screen leading up to its Feb. 19 3-D release on DVD and Blu-ray.
I'd like a DVD player that my 70-year-old parents could use.
Additionally the film is about to be re-released in theaters with several minutes of extra footage and many more versions of the DVD (including one in 3-D) are in the pipeline.
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It has a DVD burner, too, which you'd typically expect from a notebook this big, yeah?
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The plan worries theater owners who flew into a collective rage earlier this year when Disney announced it would release Alice in Wonderland on DVD just three months after the 3-D film hit theaters.
Redditor SidIncognito discovered this bizarre easter egg when listening to the DVD Commentary, where the show creators David Benioff and D.
But the Mummy film earned 4% more on DVD that Journey to the Center of the Earth which had been in 3-D at theaters.
As you'd expect of a notebook that's slightly larger and also has a DVD burner, though, it's a good deal heavier than the one we have here: 4.3 pounds is the starting weight.
ENGADGET: Samsung Series 5 UltraTouch review: a solid, if slightly overpriced, mid-range Ultrabook
Along with the 15.4-inch 5670 and 20.1-inch 9800 notebooks that we'd already known about, Acer formally unveiled at Computex two other HD-DVD- and Centrino Duo-toting models from the Aspire line that we hadn't seen before: the 17-inch 9510 and 15.4-inch 9110 (pictured).
Judging by last week's titles, (not counted here) we'd expect much of the same next week, unless of course all those new HD DVD owners finally got done watching all those free titles and finally start buying movies to actually help red's cause.
ENGADGET: Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending November 25th, 2007
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