Home Media Magazine - August 31 - September 6, 2008 - (Page 5) www.homemediamagazine.com MENU FROM THE EDITOR BY STEPHANIE PRANGE, EDITOR IN CHIEF www.homemediamagazine.com Digital Copy May Trump iTunes, Etc. 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 Interns ART Art Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melbert Sebayan Graphic Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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Packaged media may have the last laugh when it I’m sure many families wish they had digital copies of their comes to digital delivery of movies, if studio plans are library of discs, as I and my family did on our recent rainany indication. soaked trip. I have often noted that what most people really want is the And studios are starting to take notice. ability to own a high-quality disc — as well as a digital copy for Digital copy is sprouting up on discs everywhere. easier portability — of the movies they love best. I, for the first time, heard a commercial explaining it in some I don’t want to drag around all the movies detail for the most recent special edition on disc my kids want to watch (much less WHAT MOST PEOPLE REALLY of Walt Disney Home Entertainment’s The worry whether or not we’ve got them on DVD WANT IS THE ABILITY TO OWN Nightmare Before Christmas. or Blu-ray Disc and whether or not our laptop A HIGH-QUALITY DISC — AS I’m not sure how quickly consumers will or portable player will play them). I just want WELL AS A DIGITAL COPY FOR pick up on this digital copy phenomenon, low-resolution portability — say on a summer EASIER PORTABILITY — OF THE but many studios are certainly betting they trip to Galveston, Texas, just as a hurricane is MOVIES THEY LOVE BEST. will. scheduled to hit. iTunes is great for music, but my first choice Say, you’re stuck for a day in Houston awaiting the arrival of a when owning a movie would be to have the best of both packhurricane on the Galveston coast the very day you are supposed aged media and digital portability. I’d like a disc with the best to arrive and frolick on the beach. possible quality picture and sound that I could play on my Say, you didn’t have the inclination to bring along discs or HDTV, but that also offers me a digital copy I can take with portable DVD players because you were scared the airline me on trips. would charge for extra baggage, and the only electronic equipIt’s the best of both worlds. ment you brought was a laptop. Wouldn’t it be nice if that laptop had a few digital copies from Stephanie Prange’s e-mail address is sprange@questex.com MARKETING Marketing Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristina Kronenberg 714/338-6743 Marketing Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaitlyn DeWaard IN THIS ISSUE AUG. 31-SEPT. 6, 2008 / VOL. 30 / NO. 35 News …………………………… CALENDAR I CEDIA EXPO The Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association’s annual conference caters to the residential electronic systems industry. Registration ends Aug. 28. 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Oct. 3-5 Los Angeles Convention Center info: www.eforallexpo.com News ………………………… Lost Boys: The Tribe DreamWorks puts a Tropic Thunder featurette on iTunes before the home video release; Lionsgate bows movies on Jaman; Vudu shuffles staff. Reviews ………………………… 16 Does Lost Boys: The Tribe live up to the original on Top 20 DVD Sellers ……………………… 20 Blu-ray Disc? Does the crude comedy of Foreign Top 20 Rentals and Top 10 Charts ……… 21 Exchange translate well? Should independent film fans experience The Sensation of Sight? Just Announced ……………… Sony Pictures flies off with Hancock; Disney proResearch ……………………… grams Wall-E; Universal Studios bursts with The Disney’s Camp Rock sits atop the national DVD Incredible Hulk; Warner announces a new ultimate sales chart, while Fox’s Street Kings rules over the collector’s edition DVD and Blu-ray Disc of I Am rental chart. Legend. 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