| Cardiac161 |
08-17-05 10:13 PM |
HVE is dead...
Taken from Masters of Cinema:
As of yesterday afternoon, Home Vision Entertainment — co-distributor of the Criterion Collection — was consolidated by Image Entertainment and no longer exists as a DVD imprint or distributor. 40 of their 45 staff are to be laid off. Given the radically different standards of quality control between Image and HVE, we are alarmed at this development, which is apparently the latest panic move by an industry facing the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD transition. The Criterion Collection is an independent company and sources say the merger formalizes a 100% distribution deal between Image and Criterion lasting through the end of 2010.
MoC extends our condolences to the many unemployed cinephiles formerly working for Home Vision and we salute the company's exemplary track record.
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