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DEG HONORS INDUSTRY’S BEST AT CES 2008 Trade Group Names Retailers of the Year
LAS VEGAS (Jan. 7, 2008) – DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group held its annual reception during the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to award top honors for digital entertainment products and retailers. DEG Retailer of the Year Award DEG members were asked to consider national, regional and online retailers in their voting. The voting was done in a secretive ballot. The DEG’s hardware members (consumer electronics and IT companies) agreed that Best Buy and Sixth Avenue Electronics have continued to lead the industry in consumer education of new entertainment technologies through demonstration of products, promotions and key advertising. “We believe it is only fitting that the DEG membership award this high honor to both a mass merchant and a regional specialty retailer,” said Gene Kelsey, Vice President, DEG Board of Directors and Vice President, Entertainment Group, Panasonic Consumer Electronics. “Both local and national retailers are key to the success of marketing digital entertainment products to consumers throughout the country and these two retailers are true partners in that objective.” For the Retailer of the Year for Software, the DEG membership awarded Best Buy the honor. In 2006, Best Buy also received the award for Best Retailer of the Year for Hardware and Software. Accepting the award for Best Buy, Julie Owen, Senior Vice President, Entertainment Operating Group, Best Buy, commented, “Best Buy is truly honored to be selected for these two prestigious awards. This further reinforces our commitment to providing our customers with all forms of digital entertainment, now and in the future.”
Selected by a panel of product reviewers from the industry’s home theater enthusiast publications, the following three products were awarded with the top honors:
The DEG Creative Excellence Award Winners for 2007: The DEG Theatrical DVD Title of the Year
The DEG Catalog DVD Title of the Year
The DEG TV DVD Title of the Year
The DEG Direct to DVD Title of the Year
The DEG Music DVD Title of the Year
The DEG Blu-ray Disc Title of the Year
The DEG HD DVD Title of the Year (Tie)
DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group is a Los Angeles-based, industry-funded nonprofit corporation that advocates and promotes the many benefits associated with DVD while providing updated information regarding the format to both the media and the retail trade. The DEG offers a forum for member companies to engage in ongoing discussions concerning various issues and opportunities, which relate to other new digital technologies that may emerge in the future. Regular members of the DEG are Anchor Bay Home Entertainment, D&M Holdings, Digeo, DTS Entertainment, Dolby Laboratories, HBO Video, Hewlett-Packard, Image Entertainment, JVC Company of America, Lionsgate, MGM Home Entertainment, Microsoft, New Line Home Entertainment, Panasonic Consumer Electronics, Paramount Home Entertainment, Philips Electronics, Pioneer Electronics (USA), Sony Electronics, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Thomson, Toshiba America Consumer Products, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video. Associate members are 3ality Digital, AGI Media, Arvato Digital Services, Ascent Media/Blink Digital, , Bertelsmann Direct North America, Blockbuster, Capgemini, CinemaNow, Cryptography Research, Deluxe Digital, Distribution Video & Audio, Ingram Entertainment, JVC Disc America, Kestrel Wireless, Macrovision, Memory-Tech, Netflix, Nielsen Entertainment, Panasonic North America, PaperFoam, Polar Frog Digital, RCDB, ScreenPlay, Simplay Labs, Sonic Solutions, Sony DADC, Technicolor, THX and Universal Operations Group. The DEG can be reached at 310-888-2201, via e-mail at getinfo@digitalentertainmentinfo.com or through its Web site at www.digitalentertainmentinfo.com.
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