Home Media Magazine - December 2-8, 2007 - (Page 5) www.homemediamagazine.com MENU FROM THE EDITOR BY STEPHANIE PRANGE, EDITOR IN CHIEF www.homemediamagazine.com An Inconvenient Truth About Packaging PUBLISHER & EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Thomas K. Arnold EDITOR IN CHIEF Stephanie Prange EDITORIAL Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angelique Flores Senior Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erik Gruenwedel Senior Reporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Tribbey Assistant Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Latchem Associate Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Billy Gil, Kyra Kudick Contributors. . . . . . . . . John Gaudiosi, Anne Sherber, Fred Topel, Ralph Tribbey, Holly J. Wagner ART Art Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melbert Sebayan Graphic Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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I get different answers, but I think ter is starting to drive me crazy. the best solution is to minimize packaging. Therefore, the Blu-ray Discs, HD DVDs, DVDs and CDs are I would love to see the video industry take more strides toward going in folders. slimmer, more convenient packaging. While some may think I know I got a lot of flak from folks when I wrote a column bigger is better, I’m betting the squeezed American consumer about putting all of our kidvids into DVD is going the other way. folders. I justified it by saying the kids were ARE THESE CASES I don’t want a bigger car because it guzzles abusing them anyway and they were mostly RECYCLABLE? I GET more gas, and I don’t want bigger packaging TV show compilations. DIFFERENT ANSWERS, because is clutters the limited space in the But now I don’t know how to justify what I BUT I THINK THE BEST house. am doing to the purist DVD collector other SOLUTION IS TO MINIMIZE I’ve made the case before that discs are a than to say I simply have no more room. PACKAGING. very convenient way to store movies. Now, We put all of the CDs and DVDs in neat little if only the disc packaging industry would folders, and it looks great. reach a space-saving standard, we’d be able to buy more I’ve even begun putting my Blu-ray Discs and HD DVDs into discs and store them without cluttering every surface in the folders, discarding the cases immediately. house. It’s been torture throwing away some of these carefully deThe slimmest case I ever received was the one for Al Gore’s An signed cases. I frankly couldn’t bear to toss the extended version Inconvenient Truth. It was made of cardboard like the old record cases of the “Lord of the Rings” series. album covers. I’d love to see more of the same. But I can no longer stand to live among stacks of discs. The only remaining packaged videos in my house are TV Stephanie Prange’s e-mail address is sprange@questex.com MARKETING Marketing Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristina Kronenberg 714/338-6743 Marketing Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaitlyn DeWaard Online Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Renee Rosado IN THIS ISSUE DEC. 2-8, 2007 / VOL. 29 / NO. 48 News …………………………… 10 New Line files a suit against Koch Entertainment over a Golden Compass-themed DVD; a study says about half of rental market revenue comes from video. CALENDAR I HIGH-DEF 2.0 Home Media Magazine presents High-Def 2.0, a one-day event that will serve as a preview of what’s in store for the high-definition disc market in 2008, the year the studios have targeted as breakout time for Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. Coming just weeks before the Consumer Electronics Show, the event will provide a sneak peek of studio announcements expected to be made at CES, along with an overview of plans for the coming year, from marquee titles headed to HD disc to advances in interactivity, technology and packaging. Dec. 4 Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Los Angeles info: www.homemediaconferences.com PRODUCTION Production Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bonnie Ling Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Justin-Nicholas Toyama 714/338-6765 Assistant Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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Pipeline ………………………… 28 Top 20 DVD Sellers ……………………… 30 Paramount Home Entertainment’s Dragonlance: Top 20 Rentals and Top 10 Charts ……… 31 Dragons of Autumn Twilight leads a slew of fantasy DVDs featuring wizards, dragons and more; The Just Announced ……………… Ten director David Wain discusses his fan base. Paramount Home Entertainment goes Into the Wild; Genius Products/The Weinstein Co. emResearch ……………………… barks with The Hunting Party; Sony Pictures Home 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s Live Free Entertainment invites viewers to enjoy Romance & or Die Hard shot to the top of both the national DVD Cigarettes. I WONDERCON 2008 The comic book conference is returning to San Francisco for its 22nd anniversary. 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