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[News release announcing the first edition, featuring Teleshuttle's pioneering delivery technology:]
PORTLAND, OR, June 21, 1995 - Blockbuster Video and Creative Multimedia today announced the immediate availability of Blockbuster Video Guide To Movies & Videos on CD-ROM. Based on the paperback book of the same name, written by The Philip Lief Group and edited by Blockbuster, the guide is never out of date. Users have monthly access to the most current movie reviews and listings of the latest movies available for rent.
With more than 21,000 film and video titles, video clips, biographies, trivia questions, and electronic updates, Blockbuster Video Guide To Movies & Videos is the most continually up-to-date entertainment guide for the whole family from the largest home video retailer in the world.
"This CD-ROM is a great complement to the book it's based upon," Ted Innes, Vice President, Marketing, Blockbuster Video, said. "With the monthly updates available to customers through an on-line electronic service, it becomes a living, breathing piece of software that is never out-of-date."
Blockbuster Video Guide To Movies & Videos
is available immediately in MPC format at a suggested retail price of $19.99 at Blockbuster Video stores nationwide and in Canada. The CD-ROM is also carried at a number of retail locations and stocked in standard distribution channels.
Blockbuster Video, a division of the Blockbuster Entertainment Group, is the world's largest home video retailer, with more than 4,000 locations in the U.S. and 16 countries. The operations of the Blockbuster Entertainment Group, headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, FL., also include Blockbuster Music, Spelling Entertainment, Discovery Zone FunCenters, Showtime Networks Inc. and Paramount Parks. Blockbuster Entertainment is a unit of Viacom Inc.
Product Description
Blockbuster Video Guide To Movies & Videos
is not only a great reference guide, but provides hours of entertainment for the entire family. Families can see how critics rate the movies, take a tour through the great movie genres, discover all the award winners and nominees for the last 67 years, or step behind the scenes and find out all about a favorite actor or actress.
The great movie genres - including Action, Comedy, Documentary, Crime and Mystery, Drama, Family, Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi, and Western - provide an all-encompassing review from the dawn of the movie age. Users can either take a guided tour or proceed through the genre tour at their own pace. Through the use of an exceptional search engine and hyperlinked text, users have immediate and easy access to other sections within the product such as Movie Reviews, Biographies, Videographies, and the Movie Game. For instance, while reviewing the Family Movie Tour, Bambi is listed in highlighted text. By clicking on the title "Bambi", the user is transported to Movie Reviews and is instantly able to read the review. By pressing the "Go Back" button, the user is transported back to the Family Movie Tour.
Features in the product include:
Users can access the most recent movie information on a monthly basis via the
electronic update system. With a click on the Update button, the Teleshuttle™
software dials UNET, searches out the information, delivers that month's reviews to the
hard disk and then signs off - all invisible to the user. Users will receive 50-100 new
movie reviews each month via a toll-free call within the US, at a charge per update of
$3.00. Canadian access is also available. The linkage software, supplied by Teleshuttle,
is integrated into the CD-ROM, and the service is operated by UNET.
Founded in 1975, The Philip Lief Group, Inc., is a New York-based content provider that conceives, creates and licenses information packages for all media. The Philip Lief Group is represented by Mark Jaffe of New York-based Electronic Licensing Organization (ELO).
Founded in January, 1992, UNET, based in New York City, is active in all forms of electronic publishing, from on-line consumer services to Multimedia CDs, from Electronic Books (on disc) to the Internet.
Teleshuttle Corporation, based in New York City, is the first independent provider of software and services to make it easy for any publisher to link CD-ROMs or diskettes to up-to-the-minute on-line information.
Founded in 1987, Creative Multimedia develops, manufactures, markets and distributes CD-ROMs for use with personal computers. Creative Multimedia, the leader in lifestyle and leisure interactive media, continues to partner with the nation's leading publishers and entertainers to bring the highest quality, name-brand interactive experiences to the market. Additional company and product information is located on the World Wide Web at http://www.creativemm.com.
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