Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!

I can't believe it's been twenty years since Beetle Juice first hit the cinema.  It's got cynical dead social workers, a pre-Ed Wood Tim Burton, a pre-Renny Harlin Geena Davis (Cutthroat Island for the win!), a pre-Batman Michael Keaton, a pre-Heathers Winona Ryder, and...

Blockbuster Sides with Blu-Ray in HD Format War

It's sort of a big deal for a retailer of Blockbuster's size to take sides like this. Meanwhile, many will find either format too expensive to adopt for the time being. "Blockbuster will rent high-definition DVDs only in the Blu-ray format in 1,450 stores when it expands its...

Hack-pocalypse for Proprietary DVD Formats

It was really only a matter of time, but I kind of thought it would take the hacker community a bit more of it."Arnezami, a hacker on the Doom9 forum, has published a crack for extracting the "processing key" from a high-def DVD player. This key can be used to gain access to...

Azureus Launches High-Def Video Site

"Peer-to-peer file sharing software company Azureus today launched a new video-sharing Web site called Zudeo to distribute both amateur and professional high-definition video. Flush with $12 million in new funding, Azureus is offering film and video makers the chance to be...

Toshiba's high-def DVD player debuts

"TOKYO — Toshiba began selling the first players using the next-generation HD DVD video format Friday, beating the rival Blu-ray disc format to market in a high-stakes competition to deliver theatre-quality movies to living rooms. Japanese electronics maker Toshiba...