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37 unusual facts about DVD


13th Star

The limited version (10,000 copies) that was made available by mail order only on 6 September 2007 was a digipak with three panels which contained a bonus "making-of" DVD and a 20-page colour booklet.

1956 World Series

The first inning of the telecast is still considered lost and was not aired by the MLB Network or included in a subsequent DVD release of the game.

Action Max

With this implementation, the unit can function with copies of the original VHS tapes, including those on more modern formats such as DVD-R.

American Crossword Puzzle Tournament

The DVD release includes video from the final round of the 2006 tournament.

Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution

VHS and DVD copies of the Japanese editions are currently on sale, and ADV Films has released the show in the United States on DVD in three volumes containing both English subtitled and dubbed versions.

Boubacar Traoré

The book inspired Swiss film director Jacques Sarasin for the 2001 film Je chanterai pour toi ("I'll Sing For You") about Boubacar, released on DVD in 2005.

British Rail APT-E

British Transport Films (1975) E for Experimental republished 2006 by the British Film Institute on DVD as part of British Transport Films Collection (Vol. 3): Running A Railway.

Charles Bowers

His 15 surviving films were the subject of a 2004 two-DVD release by Image Entertainment and Lobster Films of France.

Chrysler Pacifica

Limited models came with a year subscription of Sirius satellite radio, 6-disc DVD player capable of playing MP3, DVD audio, DVD video, DVD-R and DVD-RW discs, and an available eight-speaker 385-watt Infinity "Intermezzo" audio system with subwoofer.

Cineme

Cineme became the first festival to have DVD distribution in its first year running: Hollywood Video distributed and sold Cineme 2003 and Cineme 2004 nationwide.

Claudia Presăcan

In 2002, Presăcan, along with former teammates Corina Ungureanu and Lavinia Miloșovici, sparked controversy by posing naked in photographs for a Japanese photobook, LCC Gold ISBN 4-87279-118-5, and performing gymnastics routines topless for the Japanese DVDs Gold Bird and Euro Angels.

DVD-by-mail

: Series plans allow customers to rent entire television or film series in bulk; often in a single shipment, (i.e. Friends TV show or the Baby Cart film series) but otherwise work identically to Season Rental plans.

Felipe Pigna

With Mario Pergolini, Pigna wrote, produced and hosted Algo habrán hecho por la historia argentina, a TV show aired in 2005 (and later released in a set of DVDs) which combines documentary, humor and free reenactments of historical events.

For One Night Only

A DVD of the same performance was released on 7 February 2007.

Future 2 Future

This group of artists (minus Tony Williams, due to his death four years prior) would go on tour, and produce a live concert that would eventually go on DVD (which features live versions of his songs "Rockit" and "Chameleon").

Mindy Cohn

Cohn said that one of the reasons she did The Facts of Life Reunion film in 2001 was because she claims that the actors in the long-running series have been wrongly denied a cut of the syndication and DVD profits from the series.

Motion Picture Association – Canada

The Motion Picture Association – Canada (in French: Association Cinématographique – Canada) or MPA-C is a film industry trade group which speaks for and represents the major U.S. motion picture studios in Canada for films, television, videos and DVDs.

New City, New Drama

The episode was released on DVD on February 13, 2007, packaged with the remainder of the first season.

Noche Crist

Lassman recreated Noche’s pink boudoir installation in the center of this posthumous retrospective and incorporated edited video and audio DVDs of interviews with Crist and her friends.

Oarsome Foursome

In 2004, they released a DVD titled Oarsome Foursome Fitness - a general fitness training guide not necessarily aimed at rowers (although there is a section on perfecting your rowing stroke).

Octatron SkySeer

The ground station's recorder can store up to twenty hours of high-quality MPEG-2 format video which can then be transferred to DVD or Macromedia Flash.

Peabody Opera House

It has since been broadcast on Nick at Night (in 1998) as part The Museum of Television & Radio Showcase series and released on DVD as part of the "Ultimate Rat Pack Collection: Live & Swingin'".

Seabourn Cruise Line

All have designer soaps, flat-screen televisions, DVD players, and Bose Wave sound systems.

Sommore

Sommore and fellow African American female comedians Mo'Nique, Laura Hayes, and Adele Givens were the stars on the The Queens of Comedy tour, which was filmed and subsequently aired on Showtime and released on DVD.

St. Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh

Furthermore, in 2005, the school was among the first in Northern Ireland to boast Class Room 2000 (C2K) technologies with every classroom containing an interactive Promethean whiteboard, a data projector (with television and DVD capabilities) and a networked computer with access to the Internet, e-mail and assorted educational software and resources.

Stavesacre

On February 27, 2007, Stavesacre announced they would be disbanding following the recording of several new songs with original guitarist Bellew and the release of a DVD documenting the band's history.

Suden Uni

It was originally released in 2001, and then re-released in 2003 with one bonus track, different cover art, and a 40-minute DVD.

Sybille Schmitz

Both the documentary and the Fassbinder film are available on the Criterion DVD release of Veronika Voss.

Taproot Audio Design

Taproot Audio Design is a recording studio located in Oxford, MS that focuses primarily on audio mixing and mastering of original music for CD or DVD.

Ted Wragg

He wrote more than 50 books on a wide range of educational topics, as well as producing a 120-book reading scheme, two CD-ROMs, a DVD on teachers' questions, and many videos and audiotapes.

The Miniature White House

A VHS/DVD tour of the replica has also been made available.

The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb

The date at the Grand Opera House in York on 27 October 2006 was filmed for a DVD release, which was released in the UK (Region 2) on 27 November 2006 by Universal.

Video Privacy Protection Act

It was created to prevent what it refers to as "wrongful disclosure of video tape rental or sale records or similar audio visual materials, to cover items such as video games and the future DVD format." Congress passed the VPPA after Robert Bork's video rental history was published during his Supreme Court nomination.

We Are...The Laurie Berkner Band

The Laurie Berkner Band is the triple-platinum children's music DVD by The Laurie Berkner Band.

Xinjiekou Subdistrict, Beijing

It is located close to the Shi Cha Hai lakes and is well known for its black market DVD shops and low budget fashion shops.

Y Sigue La Mata Dando

A special edition was also released including a DVD with music videos and karaoke versions of the songs included, along with biography, discography and photo gallery of the group.

Zombie Genocide

Currently it is only available from the Midnight Pictures website on DVD-R.


2013 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

British newspaper The Guardian in its editorial section, hailed the 'ancient Irish' game of hurling as a beacon of sporting courage and commitment, Hopefully the Gaelic Athletic Association will do all sports fans everywhere a massive favour and produce DVD copies of this memorable game, where Clare emerged victorious.

Akiko Yajima

Jumanji (Peter Shepherd) (Original VHS/DVD Edition and Fuji TV Editions)

Aurora Martinez

Although her productions receive virtually no theatrical release in the United States, they can be found in many U.S. video outlets, both in VHS and DVD format.

Behind the Player: Blasko

Released on November 1, 2008 by IMV, the DVD features Blasko giving in-depth bass lessons for how to play "Dragula" by Rob Zombie and "I Don't Wanna Stop" by Ozzy Osbourne and an intimate behind-the scenes look at his life as a professional musician, including rare photos and video.

Bilabial fricative

Jack Black also incorrectly used the phrase bilabial fricative in the special features of the Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny DVD.

Brian Fechino

Fechino's role with PMB is much wider than his guitar duties; he earned the nickname "Techno" from his bandmates for his soundboard skills, and has mixed and/or produced several of the band's projects including the EP Drive-By Romance, the bonus acoustic tracks on the Kirtland release of Save Me and the Wolf Trap portion of the Vintage Stages Live DVD.

Code Name: Eternity

Echo Bridge Home Entertainment announced Code Name: Eternity: The Complete series on DVD.

Comparison of the Java and .NET platforms

Rather than using Java, HD DVD (the defunct high definition successor to DVD) used a technology jointly developed by Microsoft and Disney called HDi that was based on XML, CSS, JavaScript, and other technologies that are comparable to those used by standard Web browsers.

Dai Henwood

He has recorded a DVD titled Dai Another Day, released by EMI in late 2009.

David Bazan

The DVD contains interviews and intimate live performances filmed in his home studio, on his front porch, and while driving around in his Ford Bronco.

Device – Voice – Drum

The DVD includes a short Animusic animation of a portion of "Miracles Out of Nowhere."

DVD-RAM

Many operating systems like Mac OS (Mac OS 8.6 up to Mac OS X), Linux and Microsoft Windows XP can use DVD-RAM directly, while earlier versions of Windows require device drivers or the program InCD.

Ed Stradling

In late 2012 he was reported by Doctor Who Magazine as having left the Doctor Who DVD range and working for the Loaded TV channel.

Elements of Life: Remixed

Note: The Carpe Noctum remix is officially known as (Fire Element Mix), it earlier had been named (War Drum Mix) when it was released in the Copenhagen: Elements of Life World Tour DVD and recently mentioned as (Fire Intro Drums Mix) in Tiësto's Club Life, on Podcast 59.

Everything You See

The Loch Ness concert, entitled Beat the Drum after the chorus to the song "Pride of the Summer", was released on DVD and CD as Year of the Flood in 2008.

Federico Agostini

Among Agostini’s Philips recordings there are Bach and Vivaldi’s violin concertos, including the Four Seasons, which was filmed on location in Venice and available also on DVD.

Get Wiser Live DVD

Get Wiser Live is a DVD recorded on January 6, 2006 by Soldiers of Jah Army (SOJA) at the State Theatre in Falls Church, Virginia.

Harley Pasternak

Pasternak has endorsed several products, including the video game Harley Pasternak's Hollywood Workout for Wii and the XBox 360 with Kinect, along with a food and DVD fitness line based on the "5-Factor" plan and the "997" New Balance exercise shoe, along with Fitbit, Shaklee and Coca-Cola's fitness waters, including Powerade and Glacéau VitaminWater and SmartWater

Heathenology

The DVD features additional bootleg footage by Gary Marshall, Tim McCray and Klaus.

Kristin Mooney

Mooney sang harmonies with Keith Richards, Norah Jones, Steve Earle, John Doe, Jim James, Raul Malo, Jim Lauderdale and Jay Farrar as a member of the "house band" for the Return to Sin City—A Tribute to Gram Parsons DVD.

La Bola de Cristal

Although it was never released on VHS video, in 2003 selected excerpts of the series were released on DVD.

Lee Dainton

The film was released on DVD in North America on September 11, 2007 by Dimension Extreme and Alliance Atlantis.

Live at Grand Targhee Resort

Live at Grand Targhee Resort is a live DVD concert of the band, Widespread Panic, filmed at the Grand Targhee Resort in Alta, WY between July 1–3, 2011.

Miles! The Definitive Miles Davis At Montreux Dvd Collection

The Definitive Miles Davis at Montreux DVD Collection 1973-1991 is a 10 DVD box set by Miles Davis, comprising 10 separate concerts and interviews, recorded in Montreux, Switzerland, between 1973 and 1991.

Moonlight Waltz Tour 2011

It is the first all-in-one live CD and DVD release from the band, though Theatres des Vampires have released one live CD (Desire of Damnation) and one live DVD (The Addiction Tour 2006), separately.

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

Despite the fact that the film is still copyrighted (by Republic successor Melange Pictures, managed by parent company Viacom, which also owns Paramount Pictures), public domain companies have released the film on VHS and DVD.

Orrori dell’Amore

The 12th track from Nicholas Lens' Orrori dell'Amore called Was hast du mit meinem Herz getan? was used as outro-song by the German hardrock band Rammstein at the end of all concerts of the Live aus Berlin-Tour, 1998, the Mutter-Tour, 2001 and on the DVD and CD Live aus Berlin of Rammstein.

Peace Through Superior Firepower

The DVD contains a full concert filmed on 2 April 2005 at Elysée Montmartre, Paris.

Pitty

Besides being released on CD, DVD, and DualDisc, the record was also released in a unit cell model, the result of a partnership with Nokia.

Polish Wikipedia

Additionally, the software used on the DVD worked improperly on Microsoft Windows 98.

Request TV

One of the major highlights of Request TV was that it was the first national television outlet to run Extreme Championship Wrestling programming, as documented by Paul Heyman in the DVD The Rise and Fall of ECW.

Rock 'n' Roll Band

Directed by Justin Kreutzmann, son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, this part concert DVD, part documentary, fully encapsulates the essence of the band, both on and off the stage.

Savannah Smiles

The latest DVD release was issued September 26, 2006 by Anchor Bay, under license from Savannah Smiles Productions and StudioCanal (current rights holder of the Embassy theatrical library).

Scummy Man

Scummy Man is a short film, written and directed by Paul Fraser and produced by Mark Herbert and Diarmid Scrimshaw, based on the song "When the Sun Goes Down" by the Arctic Monkeys, and released on DVD on 10 April 2006 by Domino Records.

Songlines Live

Songlines Live is the second commercially released live recording and first DVD by American jam band The Derek Trucks Band, released in 2006 (see 2006 in music).

Ted V. Mikels

Six of these titles included 10 Violent Women, The Doll Squad, The Corpse Grinders, The Corpse Grinders II, Girl in Gold Boots and Blood Orgy of the She-Devils, all of which Alpha later released as a six-DVD set titled Ted V. Mikels Signature Collection, which was autographed by Mikels.

The Adventures of Harry Lime

A recording of the 1951 "A Ticket to Tangiers" episode of The Lives of Harry Lime series is available on the Criterion Collection DVD edition of The Third Man.

The Inner or Deep Part of an Animal or Plant Structure

The DVD features clips of the studio performances by Dokaka, Shlomo, Rahzel and Mike Patton that formed the beats for many of the songs on the album.

The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts

This album was recorded during that tour, as was a concert film, Band of Gerbils which was initially released on VHS with a subsequent release on DVD ten years later.

The Mutilator

Code Red had been working on a DVD release of the film, but dropped the project when it was deemed that there was no 35mm print of the film available.

The Secret Policeman's Ball

The Secret Policeman's Ball 2006, the 2006 Amnesty benefit show (and the spin-off TV special and DVD)

The Times of Harvey Milk

A digitally restored version of the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection in March 2011.

Tom Lyon

Along with Drummond Money-Coutts, he toured Kenya performing magic in 2007, and a DVD, Kenyan Conjurations, was produced about their exploits.

Tommy and Quadrophenia Live

Tommy and Quadrophenia Live is a 3-disc DVD box set that includes performances by The Who from their 1989 (the Tommy portion) and 1996-1997 tours (the Quadrophenia portion).

Two Hearts Beat as One

A live performance of the song at Red Rocks Amphitheatre appears on the DVD release of the concert film Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky.

WCIP

We Come in Pieces, the 2011 live DVD by the alternative rock band Placebo.

Wisdom in Chains

DVD contains live material (14 songs) recorded at show from May 2006 at Backstage Enterprises in Kingston, Pennsylvania, interview with Mad Joe Black and a three song recording from live performance at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia.