[ad-international] Universal Pictures to Release DVD and Blu-Ray Disks with DVS

[Mary Watkins]

Thanks Shirley.  

Ally, Universal chose not to issue public announcement as Sony did, but rather asked the Media Access Group to share the news with the community.  That is why you won't find a announcement from Universal like Sony's online.

Best,
Mary

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From: ad-international-bounces at acb.org [ad-international-bounces at acb.org] On Behalf Of Shirley Roberts [n8lx at earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 1:57 AM
To: ad-international at acb.org
Subject: [ad-international] Universal Pictures to Release DVD and Blu-Ray       Disks with DVS

Ally,
Here is the press release Mary Watkins sent out last week regarding Universal.

From: Mary Watkins <mary_watkins at wgbh.org>
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 3:18 PM
To: dvsconsumers <dvsconsumers at mail4.wgbh.org>
Subject: Universal Pictures to Release DVD and Blu-Ray Disks with DVS

Great news to share:

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has joined Sony Pictures by committing to release the Descriptive Video Service® (DVS®) track created for theatrical release of films on the DVD and Blu-Ray versions of those films The Media Access Group at WGBH, which creates both the closed captioning and DVS via our Motion Picture Access (MoPix) effort, is most grateful to Universal for this major step forward. The excitement among description fans generated by the Sony announcement just a few weeks ago will no doubt be echoed by the latest good news. Any comments and feedback we receive are shared with these studios (so hit reply and send us a note!), and will also be used to convince additional studios’ home entertainment divisions to get on board the DVS on DVD train (and beyond this, to online streaming/downloading).

More about DVS can be found at this page of our site:  http://dvs.wgbh.org

Write to us at access at wgbh.org

Follow the Media Access Group on Facebook (we posted this great info there first!)

Here now is a list of DVD and Blu-Ray titles that will include DVS as an option. Additional DVD and Blu-Ray titles and release dates will be shared when we learn them. We understand the DVD packages will have indicate availability of DVS, though the print on DVD packages tends to be microscopic.  We’ll be confirming that the DVS track is on each disk, and will update our DVS on DVD Web site accordingly.

Land of the Lost (Universal) Available Now
The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three (Sony) Nov 3
The Ugly Truth (Sony) Nov 10
Bruno (Universal) Nov 17
Funny People (Universal) Nov 24
Julie and Julia (Sony) Dec 8
Public Enemies (Universal) Dec 8
District 9 (Sony) (Dec 29)

After the first of the year:

Love Happens (Universal)
Couples Retreat (Universal)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Sony)
Zombieland (Sony)
The Stepfather (Sony)
...and more to come!

Mary

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Mary Watkins
Director of Communications and Outreach
Media Access Group at WGBH
mary_watkins at wgbh.org
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