Call For Entries for the 6th Annual IRMA DVD Awards

Honors Industry-Wide Excellence in DVD

Hollywood, Calif. -- The 6th Annual DVD Entertainment Conference & Showcase has issued its call for entries in competition for the annual DVD Awards with Leonard Maltin. The prestigious honors will be presented August 20, 2003 at the Hilton Universal City by host renowned film critic and historian Leonard Maltin, co-host of the weekly syndicated television show Hot Ticket.

For complete award guidelines and entry forms, please visit www.DVD-awards.com .

“I am pleased to be part of this annual event that celebrates exceptional work in the DVD arena,” Maltin said. “It’s especially rewarding to honor the work of people who create the special content - and even the menus - that have made this medium so popular.”

A panel of respected industry journalists will judge DVDs released during the past year in an assortment of categories. Nominees in each category will be announced one month prior to the award ceremony. Then the judges will proceed to select winners in each category from the nominated titles. Meanwhile, visitors to several DVD-related Web sites will vote for the Viewers' Choice Award. All awards will be handed out at the event on August 20, 2003.

The DVD Awards are produced by the International Recording Media Association (IRMA) and Medialine magazine, a publication of United Entertainment Media (UEM). The DVD Awards is held in conjunction with the DVD Entertainment Conference & Showcase, August 20-21, 2003. For more information on the conference or showcase, please visit www.dvdconference.com .

“Interest and participation in the DVD Awards has grown steadily over the event’s six-year history,” said Larry Jaffee, Medialine’s editor-in-chief. “There is definitely a strong interest in all things DVD-related and we are very pleased that we started recognizing these talented people so early on. Nobody has been honoring the DVD creative community longer than we have.”

DVD publishers, production companies and mastering facilities are invited to enter their DVD titles for competition in the following categories:

· Best Bonus Game Feature (New category this year!)

· Best Special Edition

· Best Standard Release

· Best Packaging

· Best Menu Design

· Best Restoration

· Best Authoring

· Best Video Compression

· Best Audio Compression

· Best DVD-ROM Support

· Best Documentary

· Best DVD-Video

· Best DVD-Audio

For details on each award category, and for entry forms and guidelines, visit www.DVD-awards.com .

The 6th Annual DVD Entertainment Conference & Showcase - an executive-level seminar and comprehensive showcase of DVD technologies for studios, labels, producers and facilities involved in the creation, production and distribution of DVD video, audio and ROM entertainment titles - is the longest running full service DVD conference and showcase in existence. It is co-produced by the International Recording Media Association (IRMA) and United Entertainment Media’s Medialine magazine. The show’s senior management-level focus, and its hands-on, “how-to” approach to opening up new creative opportunities, solving digital production dilemmas and expanding the variety of titles available to consumers, make the 6th Annual DVD Entertainment Conference & Showcase unique in the industry. To register for the show please visit www.dvdconference.com.

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