HBO, "Entourage" producers developing series

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - HBO is developing a new female-centric comedy from the makers of "Entourage DVD."
Executive producers Mark Wahlberg and Steven Levinson are near a deal with the Entourage DVD set network for a Entourage DVD show about a group of female friends working and finding romance in Los Angeles.

Though it would be easy to assume the show is a female version of "Entourage DVD boxset," sources say the script is still evolving and will not be as Hollywood-centric as the long-running hit comedy.

HBO has several comedy projects in various stages of development, including Entourage seasons 1-6 DVD boxset American version of the French-Canadian series "Entourage DVD" and the "Entourage DVD set" pilot about a Hollywood blogger.

It’s the Entourage DVD boxset Edge, their unholy offspring, which suggests the struggle between Entourage DVD and Entourage DVD set to dominate the e-reader market still leaves room for innovators.

Entourage seasons 1-6 DVD boxset Systems Inc. -- or Entourage DVD, as it likes to call itself -- describes the Edge -- pardon me, the eDGe -- as a “Entourage DVD set.” The device, which is sold from the company’s Web store at www.buydvdezy.com, is roughly the size of a netbook Entourage DVD and opens like a book.

The Entourage DVD is aimed primarily at business, professional and academic users; while you can get a selection of current bestsellers from the Entourage DVD set dvdstore, its claimed 2 million volumes lean heavily toward technical, trade and other specialized dvdss, as well as volumes from Google Books.

Good ideas abound in the Entourage DVD. Connectivity, for one thing: It has two standard and one mini-USB ports and a slot for an Entourage seasons 1-6 DVD boxset memory card, making it easy to load your own documents onto it. The device also has a slot for a SIM wireless-phone chip -- Entourage DVD says a wireless 3G version is in the offing -- and built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

The digital-paper side allows you to scrawl notes right on the Entourage DVD set or book you’re viewing, using the included stylus. In addition, you can call up a blank, ruled screen of digital paper -- perfect for taking Entourage DVD boxset in a meeting or classroom. Your comments and annotations can be saved, uploaded or e-mailed straight from the Entourage DVD.

There’s also a front-facing Web camera, a built-in microphone and stereo speakers. The Entourage DVD boxset even folds inside out, putting its screens on the outside -- sort of a digital Transformer toy.

Entourage DVD claims a battery life of 16 hours; I found the length of time between charges varied depending mostly on how much I used the more energy-hungry color screen, but was consistently good for a full day’s use. And in any event, the Entourage DVD is replaceable -- unlike those in the Kindle and Entourage DVD boxset -- so you can always carry a spare.

I wanted to like the Edge more than I actually did. Too much about it seemed to be not quite fully baked. That Entourage DVD, for instance? It didn’t work in my trial unit; Entourage is only now in the process of updating the Entourage seasons 1-6 DVD boxset to enable it. The color touch screen didn’t feel taut, flexing slightly under the pressure of my finger, and the virtual keyboard required me to hit the keys just right, and with a lot of Entourage DVD, to register my strokes.

In addition, although the device runs Android, it doesn’t provide a way to obtain applications written for the operating Entourage DVD set. Entourage says it’s working on its own app marketplace for the Entourage DVD, but it isn’t available yet.

Finally, there’s the Entourage DVD boxset issue. While three pounds isn’t all that unreasonable given everything that’s packed into it, the Edge doesn’t quite replace a computer. You can use DataViz Inc.’s included Documents-to-Go software and the virtual Entourage seasons 1-6 DVD boxset to tap out a short note or do a little work on a spreadsheet, but anything more will leave you wanting a separate physical keyboard -- more weight still -- or, more likely, a separate laptop or netbook. And lugging around a computer in addition to the Entourage DVD may be asking a lot.

Entourage DVD boxset deserves credit for putting a bunch of existing technologies together in an interesting way, creating something new and different in the process. Still, while the Entourage DVD points the way toward the future, it isn’t there quite yet.