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DVD NEWS DIGEST
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The Lion King Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Adams Media Research says consumers spent $14.4 billion last year on movies for the home, almost $5 billion more than they spent on theater tickets or video rentals. With more than 27,000 DVD movies to choose from, mega-collectors are building libraries of 1,000 titles or more, and some are starting Web sites and Internet databases to help fellow fans manage inventory. "Nobody saw this coming," said a media analyst, who attributes the boom to several factors, from the low prices of DVD players to the higher quality of video and sound on the discs. The average price of a new release on DVD is $21.85, although if you know where to shop, it will be cheaper. The sale-rack titles, those older movies referred to in the business as "catalog releases," generally cost about $12. Feb. 15 - Knight Ridder News: DVD Firm Transfers Video Memories Two companies recently began pushing services that take home movies and put them on DVDs that can be popped into any home player. YesVideo offers mail-order DVD-creation services, in an experimental effort to set up DVD-authoring minilabs in two stores. Consumers who walk in with home movies can take home DVDs in a day or two. Hundreds of millions of home videotapes gather dust in closets across the country. Their contents must be moved to a more durable medium before they degrade into uselessness. DiscBurn says it does a booming business in corporate services, such as bulk disc-duplication jobs. Feb. 14 - Associated Press: Group Targets DVD Movie Copies A film industry group that oversees copy protection technology of movie DVDs filed a patent infringement lawsuit against 321 Studios Inc., the maker of popular DVD-copying programs. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, is the latest effort by the DVD Copy Control Association in its larger fight against what the movie industry considers unauthorized usage of its content. The patent lawsuit focuses on 321's flagship products, DVD Copy and DVD X Copy, which have reaped strong sales from consumers and bitter criticism from Hollywood. end
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