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DEG HONORS INDUSTRY’S BEST AT CES 2009 ‘The Dark Knight’ Awarded Best in Show
LAS VEGAS (Jan. 8, 2009) – 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 who excel in the marketing of these products. More than 400 home entertainment, consumer electronics and retail executives attended the annual gathering. DEG Retailer of the Year Award The selection was made based on nominations by consumer electronics, IT manufacturers and content providers who are members of the DEG. These members voted for the hardware retailers and the content providers – both the studios’ home entertainment divisions and the music companies - voted for the software retailer. DEG members were asked to consider national, regional and online retailers in their voting. The voting was done in a secretive ballot. In the category of National Retailer of the Year for Hardware, the membership voted for mass merchant Best Buy. And, in the Regional Retailer of the Year for Hardware category, the membership chose Sixth Avenue Electronics, a New Jersey specialty retailer with 14 locations. The DEG’s hardware members (consumer electronics and IT companies) agreed that Best Buy and Sixth Avenue Electronics led the industry in consumer education of new entertainment technologies through demonstration of products, promotions and key advertising. Members said that Best Buy is continually at the forefront of driving new technologies through a well-honed focus on consumers. Members commented on Sixth Avenue’s ability to serve as both a high-end retailer while also maintaining high volume sales. For the Retailer of the Year for Software, the DEG membership awarded Amazon the honor. This was the first year that the e-tailer was chosen. Members cited the Amazon’s dedication to software on Blu-ray, SD, disc-on-demand and electronic delivery as clearly setting them apart from the balance of retail.
The DEG Creative Excellence Award Winners for 2008: 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 awarded its top honor of Best in Show, to The Dark Knight from Warner Home Video for both its unsurpassed clarity and sound on Blu-ray Disc and its ability to excite consumers and drive them to retail. This title also claimed the all-time Blu-ray Disc and 2008 standard DVD sales records with combined first-week global sales — including rental — of 13.5 million units. DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group is a Los Angeles-based, industry-funded nonprofit corporation that advocates and promotes the many benefits associated with physical and digital entertainment while providing updated information to both the media and the retail trade. The DEG offers a forum for member companies to engage in ongoing discussions concerning various opportunities, which relate to other new digital technologies, the environment and other emerging topics. The DEG membership is comprised of: 3ality Digital, AGI Media, AGI Polymatrix, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Arvato Digital Services, Ascent Media/Blink Digital, Bertelsmann Direct North America, Blockbuster, Capgemini, CinemaNow, Cinram, Cryptography Research, D&M Holdings, Deluxe Digital, Digeo, Dolby Laboratories, DTS Entertainment, DV&A, HBO Home Entertainment, Hewlett-Packard, Image Entertainment, Ingram Entertainment, JVC Company of America, JVC Disc America, LG Electronics, Lionsgate, Macrovision, Media Control GfK, Memory-Tech, Meridian, MGM Home Entertainment, Microsoft, MOD Systems, Monster Cable, MPI Media Group, Netflix, Nielsen Entertainment, NPD Group, Panasonic Consumer Electronics, Panasonic North America, PaperFoam, Paramount Home Entertainment, Philips Electronics, Pioneer Electronics (USA), Polar Frog Digital, RCDB, Redbox, ScreenPlay, Sharp Electronics, Sonic Solutions, Sony DADC, Sony Electronics, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Summit Entertainment, Technicolor, Teradata, THX, Toshiba America Consumer Products, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Universal Operations Group, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video and Wynalda Litho.
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