IS HOME THEATRE THE NEW THEATRE?
On the eve of Hollywood's 'Golden Age' moviegoers would flock to a theatre's opening weekend to see new arrivals on the big screen. These days however, sales figures indicate that films gross considerably more during the first week of their DVD release as opposed to their first week in the theatres: http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2005-03-21-dvd-sales_x.htm
FUTURE CAST
FutureCast is a real-time face-scan technology being used to capture information from the faces of visitors to Nagoya's Mitsui-Toshiba Pavilion, and transporting them to the future world of Space Child Adventure 'Grand Odyssey'. http://www.mt-expo.com/index_e.html
FREE BATCH EXPORT UTILITY SOFTWARE
The Livid Batch Export Utility v1.2 is a simple program for recompressing and resizing a folder of quicktime media to a different format. It can also be used to compress movies for internet delivery and streaming, enhancing clips by adjusting the brightness and contrast, upsampling and resizing clips for use in a video editing program, or exporting the first frame as a still image thumbnail. Download it now for free here: http://www.lividinstruments.com/software_batch.php
EVEN MORE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt