DVD News from 2000

Laserviews: 47 DVD announcements from Image
etown.com: HD-DVD on the way with 18GB/layer prototype from LG January 5
US DVD-Video household penetration to exceed 10% in 2000, InfoTech forecast
Business Wire: DVD changer design from Discovision Associates ends manual turnover of 2-sided discs
etown.com: The first DVD player from Sherwood has built-in Dolby Surround EX decoding
etown.com: Panasonic announces DVD-RAM recorder
January 6
Taiwan Commercial Times: Taiwan's DVD player shipments to exceed 1 Million in 2000
Xinhua News Agency: Beijing software firm expands into DVD market
CES opens in Las Vegas
TWICE: EchoStar prepares dish/DVD combo
TWICE: HTiBs, shelf systems get DVD-Video upgrade
Business Wire: Sigma Designs demonstrates progressive DVD player design
Business Wire: DVD-Video hailed as most successful consumer electronics product launch ever
Raite pledge support of VM Labs' NUON
VM Labs and InterActual Technologies provide studios with interactivity tools
Business Wire: EchoStar introduces world's first DVD/satellite television receiver
Business Wire: Leaders reunite for massive DVD promotion aim to double player sales in 2000
etown.com: HK's new DVD player upgradable to DVD-Audio
etown.com: Pioneer with prototype HD-DVD player
etown.com: SACD/DVD-Video combo and DVD+RW from Philips lated this year
DVDExpress buys the express.com domain and merges with Maximum Holdings
Stereophile: Day 1 of the 2000 CES
etown.com: Another format war, DVD-Audio and SACD duke it out
etown.com: Denon bows its first Surround EX A/V receiver
GameSpot News: NUON shows its face at CES
Daily Radar: New NUON Information
GameFan: First NUON screen shots
GameFan: Final specs for VM Labs' NUON hardware
Outlaw Audio has announced the first 6.1 channel A/V receiver to sell for under $600
January 7
TWICE: Sony seee MS, i.LINK as keys to networking
TWICE: Philips gets RCA's support for DVD+RW
Business Wire: Pioneer Entertainment teams up with Windham Hill to release DVD & VHS titles
Business Wire: Panasonic progressive scan DVD player wins Innovations 2000 award at CES
Business Wire: Ken Crane's DVD revenues up over 75% in one year
Stereophile: Day 2 of the 2000 CES
etown.com: Hitachi's new DVD-RAM camcorder
etown.com: Marantz shows 5-disc DVD, Surround EX, SACD
etown.com: NUON, DVD p layers pose as PCs
Widescreen Review and InterVideo to produce a CD-ROM with DVD movie guide for bundling with PCs
Business Wire: Sun Microsystems, Samsung, Pioneer and other companies join HAVi Organization
News.com: DVD all the rage at Consumer Electronics Show
January 8
TWICE: Sharp plans Replay, DVD-RW decks
The digital Bits at CES 2000
January 9
Stereophile: Day 3 of the 2000 CES
January 10
Laserviews: 33 DVD announcements from Disney, A-Pix, Anchor Bay, Artisan, Digital Versatile, Ventura, Warner, Cerebellum
January 13
Laserviews: 23 DVD announcements from Columbia TriStar, Avalanche, Classic Records, Criterion, DG, EMI, Lyrick, MTI
January 14
Laserviews: 27 DVD announcements from USA, Paramount, MacDaddy, Pioneer, PM, Red Distribution, Shanachie, Sony Music, Sterling, Trimark, Troma, Universal
January 19
News.com: Hollywood studios allege DVD piracy in suit
January 20
Laserviews: 51 DVD announcements from Acorn Media, Anchor Bay, BMG, New Line, Rykodisc, Sony Music, VCI, Ventura, Vivid, Warner, Warner Music, York
Widescreen Review: "American Pie" joins 1 Million DVD club
January 21
News.com: Film industry fights DVD decryption sites
Wired: DVD hackers take a hit in NY
January 24
Stereophile guide to Home Theater: Self-destructing discs comming soon
News.com: Californian court blocks publishing of DVD decryption tool on Californian websites
January 25
SpectraDisc Corporation develops a prototype limited play CD/DVD technology
News.com: Norwegian teen charged in connection with DVD cracking tool
CNN: Norwegian teen raided by police in DVD suit
Heise Online: Kopierschutz für Audio-CDs verärgert Kunden(In German)

January 26
Laserviews: 41 DVD announcements from Warner, Universal, Acorn Media, Columbia TriStar, Focus Films, HBO, MGM, Music Video Distributors, Pioneer, Showtime, Simitar, Tai Seng
News.com: DVD lawyers spill "secret" code, CSS source code published by Californian court
Wired: DVD lawyers make secret public
Aftenposten: Norwegian hacker didn't hack DVD, he made the user interface
January 27
Motley Fool: Son of DIVX; DVD copy control
January 28
etown.com: This DVD will now self-destruct
February 1
AsiaBizTech: 4.7GB DVD-R using varying specs for light sources
Sonic Solutions sales of DVDit! top the 10,000 unit mark, DVD authoring market explodes
Laserviews: 47 DVD announcements from Image
February 2
etown.com: New audio watermark from AudioTrack
ZDNet: Torvalds lambastes DVD lawsuits
Statement from judge Kapelan about DeCSS and the website carrying it(In PDF)
February 4
Laserviews: 34 DVD announcements from Fox, Amazing Fantasy, A-Pix, Artisan, Fox Lorber, MGM, Warner Brothers
ZDNet: Lawsuits cloud open-source DVD players
February 7
Stereophile: Copy-protected CDs a nightmare for BMG Germany
TWICE: 1.1 Million DVD decks sold during December
etown.com poll shows readers hungry for recordable DVD
MSNBC: DVD players' NUONce of gaming
February 8
AsiaBizTech: 2-wavelength laser from Matsushita cuts optical feedback noise
GameSpot News: Playstation2 DVD minimal features debunked
February 9
Business Wire: DVD International signs distribution deal with classical music label Naxos
February 10
News.com: Sony sees double the sales of next-gen PlayStation
February 11
Laserviews: 70 DVD announcements from Columbia Tristar, Amazing Fantasy, Artisan, Disney, DVD International, Elite, Goodtimes, MTI, Music Video, New Horizons, New Yorker, Paramount, Rhino, Sony Music, Sterling, Synapse, Trimark, USA, Vivid, Warner Brothers, Warner Music, Water Bearer, Wolfe, Xenon, York< /a>
Washington Post: DVD fans refuse the Force, no Star Wars on DVD
February 14
Stereophile Guide to Home Theater: iDVD Getting Ready for Launch
PRNewswire: NetFlix launches "all you can watch" DVD rental program
February 15
Widescreen Review: "End of Days"(Due April 18) the last title to be released on Laserdisc?
February 17
AsiaBizTech: TEM(transmission electron microscopy) technology to improve VCD, DVD yields
Lucasfilm: Why delay(Star Wars) DVD?
Sonic Solutions and Pioneer team to create DVD-Audio disc
Sonic Solutions introduces world's first integrated MLP encoder for DVD-Audio
February 18
Laserviews: 51 DVD announcements from Columbia TriStar, Universal, Warner Brothers, Disney, A & E, Anchor Bay, Central Park, Criterion, E Real Biz, EMI, HBO, Wolfe
Independent: UK's biggest supermarket chain challenges Hollywood on "zoning" of DVDs (Are there still any European stores that don't sell "dezoned" players?)
February 21
Stereophile: DVD-Audio rises again?(From paris AES)
Byte: Hello FMD-ROM, bye bye DVD?
February 22
Pioneer announces 16x DVD-ROM
Reuters: Sony's PlayStation2 to spur DVD industry
February 25
Laserviews: 60 DVD announcements from USA, Artisan, Columbia TriStar, Fox Lorber, Madacy, MGM, Music Video, New Line, Pioneer, Steeplechase, Troma, Ventura, Warner Brothers
February 27
ZDNet: Hollywood's war on open source
February 28
Stereophile Guide to Home Theater: Companies demonstrate real-time DVD+RW recording
March 2
Laserviews: 56 DVD announcements from Image
News.com: Disney DVD Tarzan forces viewers through a jungle of previews
March 4
Sony's PlayStation2 that supports DVD-Video is launched in Japan
March 6
PRNewswire: PlayStation2 sales reach 980,000 units during opening weekend in Japan
March 8
ZDNet: Nuon, game over before it began?
Wired: DVD battle heat up, Electronic Frontier Foundation has problems finding a law firm that is not in the pocket of the film industry
March 9
Laserviews: 52 DVD announcements from Columbia/TriStar, MGM/UA, Shanachie, Anchor Bay, Avalanche, BMG, Brentwood, DVD International, EMI, Fantoma, Front Row, Goldhil, Koch, MacDaddy, MTI, Rhino, Sony Music, Sterling, Vivid, Warner Music
March 10
Reuters: Sony gets 340 complaints of memory card glitches on PS2
Microsoft announces PlayStation2 competitor X-Box
March 15
GameSpot News: Sony hopes PlayStation2 buyers will return to stores in order to have their players crippled
March 16
The Register: Mobile phones blamed for DVD-ROM drought
March 17
News.com: Sony acknowledges another PlayStation2 "glitch", possibility to change DVD region
Image Entertainment: 45 DVD announcements from A & E, Avalanche, Central Park, DVD International, EMI, Fox, HBO, Monarch, New Line, Paramount, Shanachie, Tai Seng, Trimark, Universal, Warner Brothers, York
March 20
etown.com: DVD players may become scarce, production won't meet demand
March 21
etown.com: Fluorescent Multilayer Disc (FMD); dream or optical delusion
The Connecticut Law Tribune: Mogul movie horror exaggerated, DVD piracy no real threat
March 22
Image Entertainment: 43 DVD announcements from Paramount, Universal, Artisan, Avalanche, BMG, Brentwood, Classic Records, Columbia TriStar, MTI, PM, Renegade, Slingshot, Warner Brothers, Xenon
March 23
Sharp and Sony jointly develop small size high density magneto optical disc
ZDNet: It's about time you buy a DVD player
March 24
EE Times: 3rd PS2 error, no Macrovision on RGB output
March 27
Stereophile: Multichannel audio fans soon to be surrounded. New 5.1 music labels
Image Entertainment: 96 DVD announcements from 5.1 Entertainment, A-Pix, Anchor Bay, BMG, Focus, Fox, Madacy, Pioneer, Rykodisc, Simitar, Slingshot, Sony Music, Unapix, Vivid, Warner Music, Wolfe, WWF
March 30
PRNewswire: InterVideo announces software DVD player for Linux
Business Wire: Wedding memories enter the digital age on DVD
March 31
Image Entertainment: 48 DVD announcements from Image
Image Entertainment launches DVDPlanet.com
April 3
Stereophile Guide to Home Theater: Sony says " sorry" about glitch in PlayStation2
Stereophile Guide to Home Theater: Video hackers working on MP3-style movie files
Image Entertainment: 51 DVD announcements from Columbia TriStar, Bell Canyon, BMG, Brentwood, DVD International, Paramount, Pioneer, Shanachie, Vang uard, VCI, Ventura, Warner Brothers, Wolfe
April 7
Image Entertainment: 73 DVD announcements from Buena Vista, Columbia TriStar, A & E, A.D. Vision, Artisan, Central Park, Cerebellum, Kino, MGM/UA, Slingshot, Tai Seng, Unapix, Trimark, VCI
April 10
Sonic and RAVISENT debut hDVD
April 17
Image Entertainment: 75 DVD announcements from Anchor Bay, Barrel, Columbia TriStar, Criterion, DG, Digital Multimedia, Fox Lorber, HBO, Kino, Koch, Leo, Madacy, MGM/UA, Monterey, MPI, MTI, Music Video, New Yorker, Paramount, Pioneer, Rhino, Sony Music, Troma, Warner Brothers
Scientific American: Cease and DeCSS?
April 24
Image Entertainment: 52 DVD announcements from BFS Entertainment, BMG, Buena Vista, Goldhil, Madacy, Music Video, New Horizons, New Line, Pioneer, Rykodisc, Slingshot, Sony Music, Vanguard, Vivid, Warner Brothers, Warner Music
Stereophile Guide to Home Theater: Video sales still marching ahead
Stereophile Guide to Home Theater: HDTV DVD finally on horizon?
April 25
E! Online: Spielberg does DVD
Jam! Showbiz: Spielberg says yes to DVD
April 28
Image Entertainment: 88 DVD announcements from A.D. Vision, Artisan, Avalanche, Buena Vista, Columbia Tristar, Criterion, Kino, MGM, New Line, MTI, New Horizons, Pioneer, Sterling, Synapse, Tai Seng, Trimark, Universal, Ventura, Wolfe
May 1
Image Entertainment: 38 DVD announcements from Image
etown.com: Chinese land heavyblown against DVD pirates
May 4
Image Entertainment: 38 DVD announcements from Buena Vista, HBO, New Horizons, Universal, Vanguard, Warner, Warner Music, Wolfe, York
May 10
Image Entertainment: 98 DVD announcements from 5.1 Entertainment, Acorn, Artisan, BMG, Creative Design, Delta, Fox, MacDaddy, New Video, Paramount, Pioneer, Sony Music, Steeplechase, Sterling, Trimark, United American, USA, Ventura
TWICE: 12 companies form DVD-RW promo group
TWICE: U.S. launch of Playstation 2 the 26th of October
PRNewswire: Toshiba introduces its first NUON-enhanced DVD player at E3
May 12
Image Entertainment: 60 DVD announcements from Anchor Bay, Artisan, BMG, Buena Vista, Columbia TriStar, Fox Lorber, New Horizon, Paramount, Pioneer, Universal, Warner Brothers, Warner Music, York
etown.com: DVD player manufacturers ramp up production
Reuters: Panasonic to more than double global DVD disc output
PRNewswire: 1st quarter Sony player sales increase 310% in Europe