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The Internetís Most Extensive DVD Movie Search Engine Database At WidescreenReview.com Deemed A Success
Widescreen Review.com, the enthusiastsí home theatre and DVD Webzine, is proud to report that its comprehensive, interactive database The Ultimate Widescreen DVD Movie Guideô has been met with wide enthusiasm and approval. Launched in July of 1999, the database can be found on the Web site (www.WidescreenReview.com) at ""Find It Moviesô"" and identified with the moniker ""Find It DVDsô."" It can be accessed at no charge 24 hours a day. DVD movie fans throughout the world are acclaiming the Widescreen ReviewÆ interactive movie guide as ""the reference source"" for widescreen theatrical format DVD movie releases. WSRís Ultimate Widescreen DVD Movie Guide has over 150 categories of searchable criteria with almost 450 separate criteria fields that can be located simply by typing a few letters or making selections from pop-up menus. Every movie fact is checked and verified for accuracy by a staff of experienced writers and researchers who have been publishing a leading home theatre and optical disc magazine for over eight years. Gary Reber, Widescreen Reviewís magazine and Webzine Editor and Publisher stated, ""We saw a need to present such a detailed movie database, and ours has been in development for nearly eight years, first with LaserDiscs, and since 1997 with DVDs. Our purpose was to provide movie enthusiasts a dependable source where they could find those movies best suited for their individual home theatre systems to maximize picture and sound performance."" Reber adds, ""We wanted movie fans to be able to find those movies that would make experiencing home theatre the best that it can be. We wanted to insure that our DVD database would provide useful and reliable information not only to consumers purchasing or renting DVD movies but to professionals, film school students and the movie industry with hundreds of easily searched criteria items in one place where they would be able to find any movie, director, editor, favorite type of sound, picture quality, Academy AwardÆ winner, even aggressive surround - anything and everything that can help create a memorable home theatre experience."" Here is how the WSR database works. The first search is the easiest. Itís the TITLE search. Type in any partial or complete movie title, then hit search. Type in Dracula as a test, and a list of ten titles will appear, all with catalog numbers. Next, click any title on this list and the search engine will seek out every detail including a critical review score, a synopsis, sound and picture quality narrative reviews, and, if available, a LaserDisc comparison. The search criteria are broken out into sections, each coded by color for ease of use and navigation. The green area fields cover ""General Information"" and include both ""Category"" and ""Studio/Distributor."" The orange section covers ""Theatrical Sound"" and ""DVD Sound,"" and even shows the soundtrack makeup, such as, for example, if there is ""Deep Bass"" within the soundtrack. The orange section also includes ""Picture Criteria Search"" covering such elements as ""Principal Photography,"" ""Theatrical Aspect Ratio,"" and measured ""DVD Anamorphic"" and ""DVD Letterbox Aspect Ratios"" and more. Go on to yellow and find the ""Supplementals Criteria"" section, where all the extras on the disc can be searched. In the purple section, find all of a movieís ""Credits,"" while last, in blue, there is the ""Review Information Criteria Search"" with the ""Criticsí Composite Score,"" ""Picture"" and ""Sound Scores"" subjective evaluations, narrative picture and sound reviews, and comparative DVD to DVD or DVD to LaserDisc performance quality reviews, and if applicable, DVD-ROM featured reviews. Widescreen Review adds new movies to the DVD database as quickly as possible when received from the studios and distributors, on a daily and weekly basis. Listings of announced DVD release dates, theatrical releases and more can be found in the ""Find It Movies"" Discographies section of the Web site along within the ""Studio News"" archive. Reber adds, ""With so many new and classic films being released on DVD these days, people will want to visit Widescreen Reviewís Ultimate Widescreen DVD Movie Guide regularly. A visitor can bookmark the ""Find It DVDs"" reviewsí search page and still go easily any time to other parts of the WSR Web site such as the extensive ""Todayís News"" stories and the ""Print Edition"" preview. The Widescreen Review.com Web site has been selected by several Internet services and e-commerce sites such as Amazon.com as a ""Best Of"" resource for home theatre and DVD reviews. About Widescreen Review Widescreen Review is the premiere home theatre resource in print magazine and Webzine form. Launched in 1992, the magazine and Webzine are published by WSR Publishing, Inc., an independent publisher. Renown throughout the world of enthusiast home theatre technology publications as ""The Essential Home Theatre Resource,"" WSR is an advocacy force for achieving a home theatre experience that is ""the best that it can be."" The magazine is distributed nationally and internationally and can be found in select specialty magazine racks or obtained by subscription. The Webzine, located at www.WidescreenReview.com, currently handles over 500,000 page views per month and serves over 50,000 registered visitors through 30 unique domain names.