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...process and they don't know who they're making the movie for or who the audience really should be. Years ago I did this movie for New Line called Long Kiss Goodnight, which is an exteremely popular kind of genre film among a lot of people who buy DVDs. When we made the film, I told them, "You guys need to market the film to women." They were trying to market the film to 15-year-old boys. I said "Look, this is the most powerful woman that's been on-screen in years. She kills men. She does...
Digital videodiscs are enormously popular, and high-definition televisions are finally starting to catch on. But the next logical step--DVDS that carry high-definition (HD) movies--has proved to be a difficult one. Ordinary DVDs can't hold the data required for true HD video, and electronics manufacturers haven't been able to agree on a new DVD format with enough capacity to do the job. Instead, they have broken into two warring camps: the so-called Blu-ray group (established by Sony and endorsed by Philips, Panasonic, Pioneer and Samsung) and the HD DVD Promotion Group (supported...
That changes this week, when the first HD DVD player out of the block, Toshiba's $500 HD-A1, goes on sale at Amazon.com and major U.S. retail stores. The boxy black and silver device looks like a standard DVD player--and will play standard DVDs--but also contains the hardware necessary to play HD DVDs when it's connected to an HDTV set. (And only when it's connected to an HDTV; you can't watch the new discs on your old sets...
...true comparison, I connected both TVs to a Sony DVD player, using a special (and expensive) box. The DVD player upconverts the video signal from DVDs to high def. That doesn't mean that the videos themselves are HD, but they do look pretty good. I was able to view movies such as Batman Begins, House of Flying Daggers and The Incredibles on both screens at once. Later, I connected the TVs to my cable box to watch true high-definition signal - the ESPN HD broadcast of last Monday night's Phillies-Braves game. This might not be termed...
...question remains: since DVDs aren?t high-def, how do you enjoy the highest resolution video on your TV? You could play them back through the camcorder - pushing files back and forth to the SD memory card shouldn?t be a problem. Soon enough, though, you might end up with a Blu-ray or even HD DVD burner - one that will let you record true high-definition content onto a shiny silver disc. Sure, it?s cool, but in the first couple of years, none of that stuff will come cheap...