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| Updated October 14, 2004 DVD
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The Punisher Lions Gate Home Entertainment
DVD presentations provide classical music fans with performances they otherwise would never see. For example, Russian Grigory Sokolov, who no longer tours the United States, can be seen playing Beethoven in a DVD concert. American audiences may never see Prokofiev's operatic adaptation of War and Peace, but it's almost better enjoyed on DVD in a moody, visually arresting Paris production. In another production, The Tallis Scholars DVD, viewers can enjoy the concert in an ancient church, or just hear it while touring the church's fifth-century mosaics. Major classical labels initially hesitated to jump into DVD, so smaller, specialized concerns took the medium directly into niche marketing. Even the most expensive DVD operas cost less than sound-only, full-price CD sets.
An innovative company has introduced the automated DVD/video dispenser, a state-of-the-art ATM style machine that delivers 24 hour access to the latest movie and game releases. Customers will have the ability to order on-line, pay using their credit card and do so at the customer’s convenience and not that of the video store. Over the past 10 years automatic DVD/video dispensers have made a big impression on the rental market in Europe with retailers seeing a 50% increase in rental and 20% on other in-store products.
Four people have been arrested and computers and more than 100,000 copied discs of forthcoming Hollywood movies and music albums were seized in a police raid in Salford, England. The arrests come as part of a national clampdown on counterfeiting gangs also fraudulently claiming benefits. Trading standards officers have confiscated two van-loads of fake DVDs, CDs and computer games. The multi-million pound counterfeit DVD and CD haul is the biggest of its kind ever seized in the area.
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