July 21, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Porchlight has acquired rights to the Little Leaders children's DVD series, based on popular Bible characters, and will release four titles on Nov. 4 (prebook Oct. 1).

Little Moses, Little Noah, Little Ruth and Little Joseph are 30-minute programs for toddlers ages 2 to 4 and will be released through Porchlight's Inspire label.

Porchlight reports that the series has won multiple awards, including the Film Advisory Board of Award of Exellence, AEGIS Production Award, 5/5 Dove Sealsa and the Seal of Excellence Award from Creative Child magazine.

Each disc will be priced at $9.98, and a collector's set will be released at $34.98.

Ahhh

July 18, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Here's a worthy DVD release.

Palm Pictures will release the documentary We Are Together, a look at the orphans who make up the Agape Choir, on Sept. 9 (prebook Aug. 20), priced at $19.98.

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July 17, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

I've got to hand it to Sony: Movie downloads from the company's PlayStation Store look great. And we've got our PlayStation 3 hooked up to a projector beaming the picture onto a 118-inch screen. If a downloaded movie looks good there, it'll look good on any TV.

Sony execs said a standard-def two-hour movie would take about an hour to download. We rented Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and were pleasantly surprised to find that it downloaded in less than 40 minutes. We could also start watching it about a minute after the download began with no hiccups.

It wasn't that easy for high-definition, however. We rented Warner's 10,000 B.C. on high-def and it took about three hours to download.

Like with Walk Hard, we opted to begin watching the movie immediately, and the picture flickered on about a minu...Read More

July 16, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Sony expanded its PlayStation Store last night, offering movies and TV shows for download. So, of course, we had to check it out.

It went live kinda late in our time zone, so we'll try out an actual download tonight. But we did scroll around the store.

First, a quick note to Sony: If you want people to sign up for stuff, don't make it take 20 minutes. To access the PlayStation Store, you have to be registered for the PlayStation Network, which we weren't, and it took 20 minutes to go through all the screens. Do we really need to input our mailing address and billing information before we've even got through the store door, before we're even able to see what the store has to offer? If video retailers did that, I don't think business would be very good.

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July 16, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Another company is bringing Web TV to the living room TV. VB sister company TWICE reports that Pittsburgh-based WhereverTV gets internationl TV programming that's on the Web and displays it straight on the TV. Amazon started selling the device today.

This is just for international TV right now -- so great for those of us who can't get enough of British sketch comedy -- but how long will it be before they're offering the U.S. version?

More and more devices are popping up to help viewers watch content on the web on their TV.

Comcast, DirecTV, Dish -- watch out.