ContactMusic — Shutting down hundreds of video rental stores has not hurt the rental business and may in fact be helping it. Or so one might conclude from a report by Portland, OR-based Rentrak. According to the company, revenue from Blu-ray and DVD rentals increas... more info

ContactMusic — The debut of 20th Century Fox's animated Rio debuted at the top of the DVD and Blu-ray sales charts last week, taking in five times the reals (well, dollars real-ly) that its closest competitor did, according to Nielsen VideoScan First Alert. (Actual... more info

ContactMusic — With 3D on the wane in U. S. theaters, it is already being shunned almost completely by home video enthusiasts, BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield said on Wednesday. Greenfield took note of the fact that AT&T has dropped ESPN 3D from its channel line... more info

ContactMusic — Home video sales of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 helped lift Time Warner's second-quarter results above analysts' expectations. Although the company's Warner Bros. division spent heavily on pre-release marketing and publicity for the t... more info

ContactMusic — Paramount may again have been thinking "Who needs DreamWorks Animation" when its own home-grown Rango climbed to the top of the DVD and Blu-ray sales charts despite being in stores only two days last week. Moreover, according to Home Media , magazine... more info

Perez Hilton — And here they are! We reported earlier that there was allegedly a intimate video of LeAnn Rimes and her ex-husband, Dean Sheremet, circulating the web, that was found on a memory stick to a digital camera in the back of a moving truck, and now, three... more info

ContactMusic — By next year, Blu-ray will surpass DVD as the preferred home video format in America, and by 2014 it will account for 41 percent of total home entertainment spending, according to a study by the research firm Futuresource Consulting. By that year, DV... more info

Perez Hilton — Lucky break for J. Lo. Jennifer Lopez was NOT pleased when she learned that her ex-husband Ojani Noa had been given permission to release an intimate home video of the two, and last week she filed an appeal to stop this from happening. Things def see... more info

ContactMusic — Scoring a rare trifecta win, Paramount Home Entertainment's The Fighter debuted on top of both the DVD and Blu-ray Disc sales charts and Home Media magazine's rental chart. The film, which stars Mark Wahlberg and received supporting... more info

ContactMusic — Nicole Kidman has landed a starring role in husband Keith Urban's new video - the couple's personal home video footage and family photos from their 2006 wedding appear in the promo. The Without You video features the Aussie stars on a beach with d... more info