HD DVD & BLU RAY DISC NEWS & ARTICLES

WARNER HOME VIDEO ANNOUNCES FIRST WAVE OF BLU–RAY LAUNCH TITLES Available August 1st and Featuring a Mix of Titles For All Consumers Academy Award Winner TRAINING DAY Academy Award Nominated GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK Noir Comedy KISS, KISS, BANG, BANG Romantic Comedy RUMOR HAS IT BURBANK, California (July 14, 2006) –Warner Home Video (WHV), which distributes the largest film library of any studio, today announced that it will launch its first wave of titles on Blu-ray Disc. On August 1, WHV will release four titles – Training Day; Good Night, and Good Luck; Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang; and Rumor Has It – on the Blu-ray format to support the initial roll out of Blu-ray players in North America. Training Day and Good Night, and Good Luck will be available for $28.99 SRP and Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang and Rumor Has It will be available for $34.99 SRP. Future waves of Blu-ray launch titles will be announced in the coming weeks...

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Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Paramount Home Entertainment, HP, Intel, Microsoft and Toshiba today announced the formation of a new trade organization, the North American HD DVD Promotional Group, Inc., at the Video Software Dealers Association 2006 conference. The non-profit group will promote the companies’ common interests in the success of HD DVD and to educate consumers on the quality and value of HD DVD...

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(San Jose, CA) ComicBase, the world’s leading comic book collection management software, is the first commercial PC product available in the new Blu-ray format. The program, which allows collectors to easily log, track, manage and even sell their comic book collections, comes with both a DVD full of movie trailers and creator interviews and now a Blu-ray disc full of over 150,000 comic cover images from the late 1800s to the modern day.

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COMPUTEX, TAIWAN—JUNE 8, 2006—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today unveiled PureVideo HD technology, which delivers outstanding HD DVD and Blu-ray movie playback on PCs. PureVideo HD combines hardware acceleration from an NVIDIA graphics processing unit, high definition movie player integration and HDCP feature support to make it easy for manufacturers and consumers to build powerhouse PCs that can play HD DVD or Blu-ray movies. As a result, consumers will be able to enjoy a stunning high-definition movie experience on their PCs.

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