The Digital Entertainment Group, a Los Angeles-based,
industry-funded, nonprofit DVD advocacy group, held its annual reception during
the recent International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to award top honors
for digital entertainment products and retailers. In presenting its fourth
annual industry awards, the DEG honored Best Buy as the Retailer of the Year.

The DEG also awarded seven honors to acknowledge creative excellence
in DVD titles and high definition packaged media released in the 2006 calendar year.
The judging panel, nominated by the motion picture studio and music company
members of the DEG, consisted of reviewers and industry reporters from trade,
entertainment and daily consumer news organizations. In addition to overall
sound and picture quality, all titles were considered for those features that
best demonstrated the value-added nature of the DVD format.

Buena Vista Home Entertainment’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest was awarded the Theatrical
DVD Title of the Year — for full-length motion pictures that were originally released
for theatrical viewing — while the Catalog DVD Title of the Year prize went
to Warner Home Video’s Superman: The
Ultimate Collection.

TV DVD Title of the Year went to Image Entertainment’s The Twilight Zone: The Complete Definitive
Collection; the Direct-to-DVD Title of the Year prize went to Sony Pictures
Home Entertainment’s Final Fantasy VII:
Advent Children; Paramount Home Entertainment’s Neil Young: Heart of Gold was honored with the Music DVD Title of
the Year prize; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s Black Hawk Down took top honors for the Blu-ray Disc Title of the
Year; and Warner Home Video’s Batman
Begins won HD DVD Title of the Year. For more information, visit www.digitalentertainmentinfo.com.