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My life was grand until I brought home a new Panasonic BD 55. My home theater system, consisting of a Yamaha receiver, Time Warner cable box and 65 inch Panasonic TV, as well as a Panasonic 35, was great; everything functioned properly for more than a year, with a universal remote connecting all...

Actually I'm not looking so much for current as movies as important movies. Your 99% figure may be a little high, but you're certainly in the right ballpark. At one major studio only about 20% of the library has been released, and this studio is known as one of the more aggressive ones in...

This is Thomas K. Arnold of USA Today. We are working on a fast-turnaround story about movies that for some reason have not yet been released on DVD--it's a bit ironic that even though the format is nearly 10 years old and next-generation high-def discs are now hitting the market, a good...

Anyone want to make an educated guess as to the home video release of Harry Potter in 2002? The box office success could cause the release to be extended past the typical 5-6 month period, or may cause the folks at Warner's to shrink the window dramatically. Then there's the new book coming out...

David, David--a thousand pardons if you feel I misrepresented what you said. I am saving the whole OAR vs. MAR argument for something bigger, and later--this was an article on DVD collectors, and I wanted to stress that to you, the programming came first. What I wrote was based on this email you...

Lighten up, guys! This was a simple, basic article on DVD's escalating popularity, aimed at the majority of consumers who are still buying and renting VHS. DVD diehards consider OAR a crucial issue, and I'm firmly in their camp--I believe video committed one of the biggest atrocities when they...

Thanks, Dave. I need info by the end of today; I have to write the story tonight for an 8 a.m. Sunday deadline. I'd also like some views on the importance of special features and on the fact that unlike VHS, all movies arrive on disc priced for direct sale to the consumer.

You can go to the USA Today Web site at www.usatoday.com click on the "archives" button on the left, and type in "Halloween and video" in the search field. That will get you an abstract of my latest story, on Halloween videos, which ran this past week.

Hello, everyone. My name is Thomas K. Arnold and I am working on a story for USA Today on fourth-quarter DVD. I'd like to put a consumer angle on it, so if you can help me out, I'd appreciate it. I'd like to know how avid a fan of DVD you are, why you like it, what got you into it, and which...